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used to achieve the joint objectives of development, mitigation of and adaptation to climate change in agriculture in the … developing world. The results show that agriculture is underinvested and foreign aid has not increased sufficiently to assist … developing countries achieve sustainable agriculture; substantial funds are needed to finance the wide range of measures for …
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scenarios based on the main value chains of the agriculture sector of Med 11: animal products, fruits and vegetables, sugar and …
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the agricultural and industrial sectors in India. The industry - agriculture relationship is argued to be integral to …This paper uses the structuralist framework of agriculture-industry synergy in an economy to discuss the performance of … economic development as the agriculture sector supplies raw materials, surplus labour to the industrial sector and acts as a …
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both food security and agriculture prevailed. But a long-run trend of declining foreign assistance to agriculture appears …
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The author shows with pooled OLS estimations based on transport margins from international social accounting data that investments in improved road infrastructure have the potential to significantly reduce transport costs. However, this result can only be clearly confirmed for industrial...
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Deficits in physical infrastructure, problems with availability of agricultural inputs and poor access to agriculture …-related information are the major constraints on the growth of agricultural productivity in India. The more rapid growth of mobile … and delivery of agricultural inputs and agriculture infrastructure. This paper investigates a series of questions that …
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Farming in Brazil is historically one of the main bases of the country's economy. In northeastern Brazil, agriculture … has an important role in the regional economy, with the aim of this study to evaluate the recent situation of agriculture … potential barriers to the development of agriculture in this region, including environmental issues, disability in logistics …
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This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...
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domestic investments targeted at productivity growth. Scenarios for Philippine agriculture under these policy options are … contractionary effect on agriculture; and production support is a costly instrument for promoting agricultural growth. The model … experiments suggest that a back-to-basics strategy for agriculture, incorporating various productivity-based instruments such as …
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