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This 2012 Global Food Policy Report is the second in an annual series that provides an in-depth look at major food policy developments and events. Initiated in response to resurgent interest in food security, the series offers a yearly overview of the food policy developments that have...
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. Resolution, or even effective management, of these crises requires inter alia the USA to seriously address issues in domestic …
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distributed nationally and, as such, marks the entry of the issue onto the political scene in the USA. This essay analyses the …
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The USA appears increasingly concerned that its security is being threatened by the increasing role of energy suppliers … in the Middle East and Russia, and rapidly rising energy consumers such as China. The USA also faces the challenge of its …
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The USA appears increasingly concerned that its security is being threatened by the increasing role of energy suppliers … in the Middle East and Russia, and rapidly rising energy consumers such as China. The USA also faces the challenge of its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233074
consumption of finite fossil fuels and a lack of green competitiveness in the USA contribute to the unsustainable economic growth …
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Searching for possible viable economic pathways for small-scale farms in Eastern Europe, this study is concerned with Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). We are mainly interested in the costs and benefits for both sides, the farmers and the consumers, when entering into a direct, trust-based...
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Recent empirical findings suggest that empowerment of producer organizations (POs) in agriculture requires an effective targeting and case-specific design of development interventions. By viewing PO as a socio-economic network, we develop an agent-based modeling approach for ex-ante impact...
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In the whole area of the Alps, the agro-structural change between 1980-2000 shows a significant decline of the farms (-40%). Alpine Regions with relatively stable situations (Austria, Switzerland) stand against those ones with major structural changes (Italy, Slovenia). The causes for these...
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The paper aims at a conceptual contribution to the normative economic analysis of rural de-velopment (RD) policies. RD is regarded as a problem of interaction between individuals; (lacking) structural change or the (missing) integration of externalities are therefore recon-structed as...
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