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Central and East European Agriculture in Integrating Europe
Lukas, Zdenek; Mládek, Jan - 2006
After the EU enlargement of May 2004, the exchange of agro-food goods between the EU 15 and the new member states (NMS) has accelerated considerably. In particular the expansion of Polish exports in 2005 resulted in the highest surplus registered by the NMS 4 (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland,...
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Land rights, agricultural productivity, and deforestation in Viet Nam
Abman, Ryan; Carney, Conor - 2018
This paper studies the relationship between land tenure for smallholder agriculture and deforestation in Viet Nam. We … combine high resolution satellite data on deforestation with rich household and commune-level, biannual panel data. We study … deforestation holding constant the average intensive tenure (average share of land held in tenure among those with land title). We …
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Losing territory: The effect of administrative splits on land use in the tropics
Cisneros Tersitsch, Marco Elías; Kis-Katos, Krisztina; … - 2023
villages, we analyze the effects of 115 district splits between 2002 and 2014. Results show a 35% deforestation decline within …
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Achieving Environmental Sustainability in Myanmar
Raitzer, David A.; Samson, Jindra Nuella G.; Nam, Kee-Yung - 2015
degradation is rising rapidly. Deforestation of closed forests in recent years has taken place at the fastest rate among major …
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Palm oil and the politics of deforestation in Indonesia
Cisneros Tersitsch, Marco Elías; Kis-Katos, Krisztina; … - 2020
results document substantial increases in deforestation and forest fires in the year prior to local elections. Additionally …, oil palm plays a crucial role in driving deforestation dynamics. Variations in global market prices of palm oil are … closely linked to deforestation in areas which are geo-climatically best suited for growing oil palm and they amplify the …
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Agrarian Contracts in Retrospect: Two Bihari Villages in 1970
Bell, Clive - 2016
The object of this essay is to describe and analyse contractual relations in two villages in North-east Bihar at a time when the so-called ‘green revolution’ promised much and the region had just started to benefit from canal irrigation. It is against this historical background that I will...
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Farm size and income distribution of Latin American agriculture: New perspectives on an old issue
Gáfaro, Margarita; Ibáñez, Ana María; … - 2023
Latin American and Caribbean countries have historically been known for their rates of land inequality, highest in the world. However, these countries also exhibit a high degree of heterogeneity in their patterns of land concentration and average farm sizes. These cross-country differences play...
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Latifundia Revisited. Market Power, Land Inequality and Efficiency in Interwar Italian Agriculture
Martinelli, Pablo - 2012
This paper explores a simple though neglected mechanism linking land inequality and inefficiency: market power. In underdeveloped economies with serious constraints on labour mobility, high ownership concentration will endow landowners with market power in local labour markets. The resulting...
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Can numerical models estimate indirect land-use change?
Brunelle, Thierry; Dumas, Patrice - 2012
Motivated by the conclusions from various modelling studies, modifications to the bioenergy sector regulations are under way in Europe and in the USA to account for emissions from indirect land-use change (ILUC). Despite their influence on the policy-making, evaluations of the capacity of...
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Determinants of corporate social responsibility among farms in Russia and Kazakhstan: A multilevel approach using survey data
Hajdu, Anna; Gagalyuk, Taras; Bukin, Eduard; Petrick, Martin - In: International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 24 (2021) 4, pp. 697-716
Building on the institutional theory of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and research on CSR in the agriculture of post-Soviet transition economies, the present paper investigates the institutional, organizational and individual factors of farm engagement in CSR activities. Based on a...
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