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Food security based on the spatial temporal feature of grain production

He, Yan-fen; Ma, Chao-qun; Yang, Hai-juan - In: Asian Agricultural Research 1 (2009) 01

We use the mean value and variation coefficient model to analyze the spatial-temporal feature of grain production in 31 provinces from the year 1980 to 2006. Time series of grain production is divided into 3 stages according to the average yield and the variation coefficient of grain production...

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Assessing potential water savings in agriculture on the Hai Basin plain, China

Yan, Nana; Wu, Bingfang; Perry, Chris; Zeng, Hongwei - In: Agricultural Water Management 154 (2015) C, pp. 11-19

The Hai Basin in China exemplifies problems that are observed in many arid environments: excessive water consumption, depletion of aquifers, and damage to eco-systems. Progressively since the 1970s water resources in Hai Basin have been over-exploited, primarily for irrigation, while the water...

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Conceptual Bases of Forming Strategic Grain Reserves in Ukraine

Lavrynchuk, Oleksandr - In: Accounting and Finance (2013) 4, pp. 136-140

The Article proposes new interpretation and deeper perception of the essence of strategic grain reserves not only as food stock but also as a tool to diversify the state reserves and one for diverting financial resources from the virtual to real sector economy. Such reconsideration enabled...

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Land use change and environmental stress of wheat, rice and corn production in China

You, Liangzhi; Spoor, Max; Ulimwengu, John; Zhang, Shemei - In: China Economic Review 22 (2011) 4, pp. 461-473

Grain self-sufficiency is one of the most important agricultural policy goals in China. With only modest imports, China has succeeded in feeding 22% of the world's population on only 7% of its land. However, a high price has been paid for this enormous achievement. Increase in grain yields, in...

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SELBSTVERSORGUNG – ZWISCHEN LIFESTYLE UND ERNÄHRUNGSSICHERUNG?

Neu, Claudia; Nikolic, Ljubica - Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften … - 2012

Der Anbau von Lebensmitteln im heimischen Garten, auf Pachtflächen, in Schrebergärten oder Communal Gardens erfreut sich ungeahnter Beliebtheit. Neuere empirische Arbeiten weisen darauf hin, dass Obst- und Gemüseanbau, Kleintierhaltung und Hausschlachtungen jenseits der großstädtischen...

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Reforming Foodgrains Management: Achieving Food Security with Cost-Effectiveness

Kumar, A. Ganesh; Gulati, Ashok; Ralph Cummings, Jr. - eSocialSciences - 2009

This paper examines the efficacy of the current system of public foodgrains management and policies in promoting food security in the country. It argues that the system has outlived its usefulness, and that continuing with the same only stifles growth in foodgrains, with very little welfare...

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Green revolution: Indian agricultural experience – a paradigm for Eritrea

Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

Food problem became more severe after the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, presenting a series challenges to … India’s agricultural sector. Even during good harvest years, food imports remain high. A large segment of people were poor …. To mitigate these problems, India adopted farming strategies under the “Green Revolution” in the mid 1960s. The …

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SOCIAL SECURITY FOR UNORGANISED WORKERS IN INDIA

Dhas, Albert Christopher; Helen, Mary Jacqueline - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

years in India. It is argued that India had a long tradition of informal social security and social assistance system … calls for a Comprehensive, Universal and Integrated Social Security System for the unorganised workers in India. …

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Kerala Fights Clock in ASEAN Free-Trade Deal

Devraj, Ranjit - eSocialSciences - 2009

The paper discusses the impacts of free-trade policy on the agricultural exports of Kerala.

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Poverty, Inequality and Permeability to Globalization Effects : A Study of Select Villages in Udalguri Subdivision of Assam

Mishra, SK; Daimari, Prasen - EconWPA - 2005

reality that makes the rural areas of India impermeable to the effects of globalization. To exploit the possibilities and …

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