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Temporal evolution of extreme temperature effects on agriculture is important for understanding adaptation to climate change but has not been sufficiently studied. This study examines the time-varying impacts of extreme temperatures on Chinese agriculture over 1981 to 2010. We estimate a...
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This paper investigates determinants of agricultural sector efficiency in ten new member states (NMS-10) of the European Union (EU) from Central and Eastern European countries by the non-parametric method Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and the panel data analysis. The agricultural sector...
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The main objective of this paper is to show how relevant is the incentive policy to agricultural investments for food poverty reduction towards agricultural households. The data used for this study are from the 1985-1988 CI-LSMS and the 1998 National Statistics Institute's Household Surveys. We...
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The principal objective of this paper is to show how relevant is the incentive policy to agricultural investments for food poverty reduction towards agricultural households. The data used for this study are from the 1985-88 CI-LSMS and the 1998 National Statistics Institute's Household Surveys....
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The study is devoted to the measurement of productivity and efficiency change in Chinese farming sector over the reform process in the 1980s and 1990s. Within an output distance function framework, an index of total factor productivity is decomposed into technical and allocative efficiency,...
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The nineties' agricultural reform in China that was aimed at deregulating the agricultural market eventually resulted … affected the productivity and welfare of grain farmers in China at the regional level. We find that the price regulation that …
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Following the rural reform in 1978 a series of agricultural reforms were introduced in China. The main aim of these … affected the productivity and welfare of wheat farmers in China for a dataset that covers all the major rural reforms … undertaken in China. We find that the nineties' price reforms resulted in a high magnitude of effort-response from wheat farmers …
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