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the industry not only as an instrument for ensuring food security, but also as a driver of economic growth. The inclusion …
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At present about 4% of Russia's GDP is generated in agriculture; however, the sector still accounts for 9.7% of the total number of employed in domestic economy with 26% of the country's population living in rural areas. The latter indicator has remained actually unchanged throughout the 10...
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In this paper we make a two-fold contribution. We first examine the impact of agricultural subsidies on Greece, using a detailed, micro-panel dataset for four years, 2008, 2010, 2012, and 2014. Our analysis is illuminating at least two aspects of subsidies: first, it suggests that an incentive...
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In 2016, the People’s Republic of China removed its support prices for maize and started destocking its large public reserves of maize. This paper investigates what would happen if China were to also eliminate its support prices for rice and wheat and reduce its public stocks of these two...
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One of the major targets of modern agri-food policy in Russia is a significant increase of agri-food exports - almost … and food exports (export infrastructure constraints, expensive logistics, and import bans on certain Russian products …
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of policies aimed at price stabilisation and food security, with a view to identifying alternatives to meet the same … policy objectives. The paper then examines the most direct alternative to public food stocks for price stabilisation, namely … argued to be necessary for food security, the paper also explores alternative approaches that governments may take to meeting …
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This paper addresses various aspects of risk and risk management for smallholders in developing countries, and presents a quantitative assessment of farm-level risks and risk management strategies in three emerging economies: Brazil, China and Viet Nam. The analysis covers production, income,...
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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in collaboration with the Food and Agricultural …
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Indian farm sector distress, despite the continuation of price support programme, has not declined but rather increased, as farmers are unable to get remunerative prices for their crop produce due to the inability of the programme to cover all crops and all farmers across the country....
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so for wheat as well. The next generation of agriculture and agri-food policy is being finalised, and implementation of …
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