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decline of prices from increased production. Agricultural productivity growth, however, is necessary for low-income countries … to take advantage of South Africa’s growth. The largest benefits for low-income countries result from rising productivity …
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This discussion paper analyzes the economy-wide impact of a series of agricultural innovations in Malawi. Using an agricultural focused computable general equilibrium model disaggregated to reflect Malawi agro-ecological zones, we simulate three scenarios: one involving smallholders catching up...
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technological innovations to enhance maize production and productivity and their economywide effects. We simulate the implementation …
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Myanmar is facing climate change (CC) induced changes to the productivity of their critically important rice sector … agricultural system…' by 2030. In this paper, we investigate the productivity pillar of the ADS strategy. Specifically, we employ a …
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temperature increase in the relevant year and with a crop-growth model estimating climate change impact on cereal productivity …
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productivity in the Nigerian agriculture sector and the policy interventions that have attempted to close this gap. We use a CGE … productivity cause aggregate agricultural output and real GDP to be 6.6% and 2.4% lower, respectively, then a baseline with no … gender disparities in productivity. In terms of interventions, increasing capital supply to women farmers via access to farm …
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The Middle East and North Africa region is arguably the most politically volatile and food insecure area on earth. The sum of civil disruption and endemic food-security constraints has reduced many MENA nations to the equivalent of small, import-dependent countries, regardless of population....
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Recent periods of high and volatile food prices have prompted several import-dependent Arab micro-states to consider at least some domestic production, among other proposals, as a way of mitigating extremely volatile food prices, which even in rich micro-states can have adverse health and...
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This paper presents a theory of technical progress that interprets the price-induced conjecture of Hicks. It provides also an exhaustive set of comparative statics conditions that constitute the scaffolding for an empirical test of the theory. A crucial assumption is that entrepreneurs make...
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In this study, we analyse the effects of trade liberalization, world price increase of basic staple and productivity …. Productivity increase in agri-food production has prominent effects on welfare and trade. …
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