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Vietnam Agriculture Policy Review
Jiang, Hugh - In: Transnational Corporations Review 1 (2009) 3, pp. 17-29
sector. It then analyzes its agricultural policy and trade development, concluding with a discussion of opportunities and …
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Agricultural Development and Structural Change
Pogorzelski, Karol - Instytut Badań Strukturalnych - 2014
The paper advocates public support for the development of agriculture as a way to facilitate structural change in … few decades. Despite fast population growth, the growth of productivity in agriculture has enabled the development of the …-driven industrialisation and support for agriculture development. Following that we outline the policy instruments to overcome the barriers in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011099281
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Titling, Credit Constraints and Rental Markets in Rural Peru: Exploring Channels and Conditioned Impacts
Zegarra, Eduardo; Escobal, Javier; Aldana, Ursula - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008
This paper constructs a baseline and pursues an overall impact evaluation of the PETT (Programa Especial de Titulación de Tierras), an ambitious rural titling program created in Peru in 1992. The general evaluation of impacts on farmers shows a picture of not many positive effects, at least in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943768
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Sheep-for-meat farming systems in French semi-upland area. Adapting to new context: increased concentrates and energy prices, and new agricultural policy
Benoit, Marc; Laignel, Gabriel - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 17 (2014) 1, pp. 35-48
We used simulation to study how three French sheep production systems could adapt to a new context created by a surge in cereal prices associated with changes in common agricultural policy support. The evaluation criteria were economic performance, energy efficiency, emissions of greenhouse...
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Trends in Vietnam's Pork Supply and Structural Features of its Pig Sector
Tisdell, Clement A. - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2009
Pork is the single most important source of animal protein in Vietnam and its availability has a substantial impact on the well-being of the Vietnamese. Since 1996, the local supply and per capita availability of pork in Vietnam have increased substantially. The trends in and sources of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530419
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Getting the Most for Federal Dollars: Landowner Responsiveness to Conservation Incentives
Manley, James; Mathias, Jason - Department of Economics, Towson University - 2012
Previous research on landowner willingness to retire land into the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) is based on cross-sectional data prior to 2002. Using enrollment data on a CRP subprogram from 1998 to 2010 we find that incentives matter more for pasture than cropland, and we find that...
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CREP - Cattle Receiving Enhanced Pastures? Investigating Landowner Response to Federal Incentives
Manley, James; Mathias, Jason - Department of Economics, Towson University - 2015
Using enrollment data on the enhanced CRP's river buffer subprogram from 1998 to 2010 we find that participation incentives are larger for cattle pasture and that enrollments increase at a higher rate in counties with large amounts of cattle ranching. Counties producing cattle receive almost...
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Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development in Terms of The Republic of Serbia Strategic Goals Realization within The Danube Region(preservation of rural values)
Cvijanović, Drago; Subić, Jonel; Andrei, Jean - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
International Scientific Meeting „Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development in Terms of The Republic of Serbia … scientific research on the integrated and interdisciplinary project „Sustainable agriculture and rural development in terms of … „SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN TERMS OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA STRATEGIC GOALS REALIZATION WITHIN THE DANUBE …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257831
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A Comparative Study of China's and Australia's Cotton Production
Zhao, Xufu; Tisdell, Clement A. - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2009
After providing information about the global importance of cotton as a textile and China’s and Australia’s contribution … to global cotton production, this paper examines and compares trends in the time-series of cotton production of China and … are found to be quite different for Australia and China. In addition, there is a comparative analysis of fluctuations in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530413
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Chinese producer behavior: Aquaculture farmers in southern China
Ortega, David L.; Wang, H. Holly; Olynk Widmar, Nicole J.; … - In: China Economic Review 28 (2014) C, pp. 17-24
challenges for food safety and quality regulators. China as the world's biggest food producer has the fastest growing share of …. Primary data was collected in the leading aquaculture producing provinces of southern China. The average net income per farmer … per jin of fish to adopt enhanced food safety practices such as those required for China GAP, and No Public Harm voluntary …
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