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The European Union's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
Swinbank, Alan - Palgrave Macmillan
The EU's CAP has changed significantly over theyears, largely as a result of international pressure through GATT and … the WTO, but it still has the support of farm incomes as its main concern. The old CAP of market price support has more or …, addressing concerns about European agriculture's multifunctionality; and there is a renewed anxiety about food security. The CAP …
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The final solutions for Common Agricultural Policy in years 2014-2020 : step towards environmental sustainability or business as usual?
Kociszewski, Karol - In: Economic and environmental studies : a journal for … 16 (2016) 1, pp. 9-20
The Paper's goal is to assess the most important changes in the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for … the NGO's connected with environment protection and organic farming. The CAP financial instruments were not sufficiently …
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Agrarian questions, digitalisation of the countryside, immigrant labour in agriculture and the official discourses on rural development in the Uppsala region, Sweden
Alarcón, Cristián - In: Italian review of agricultural economics 76 (2021) 1, pp. 19-32
This paper focuses on the Uppsala region of Sweden to analyse the dynamics of new agrarian questions intersecting with the prospects for immigrants to work in agriculture in the region. The paper seeks to explore the role of labour skills, agricultural automation and digitalisation of rural...
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Women empowerment and intra-household dietary diversity in Nigeria
Tanankem, Belmondo V.; Efobi, Uchenna Rapuluchukwu; … - 2016
This study used a nationally representative survey from the 2012-2013 World Bank's General Household Survey for Nigeria, to examine the relationship between empowerment, measured using a modification of the Alkire et al. (2013) empowerment index, and household dietary diversity, based on the FAO...
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The changes in financial support for agrienvironmental programme in Poland
Kociszewski, Karol - In: Economic and environmental studies : a journal for … 16 (2016) 4, pp. 751-762
The membership in the European Union (EU) created favourable conditions for the implementation of the agri-environmental programme (AEP) in Poland. The AEP is the most important rural development measure in the UE (in terms of financial support). The goal of the paper is to assess the...
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Frontier analysis and agricultural typologies
Maruyama Sasaki, Eduardo; Scollard, Phoebe; Elías, Maribel - 2018
PARI's main goal is to contribute to sustainable agricultural growth and food security in Africa and India by supporting the scaling of proven innovations in the agri-food sector in collaboration with all relevant actors. PARI accompanies specified innovations with ex-ante impact research and...
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Young people, agriculture, and employment in rural Africa
Sumberg, James; Anyidoho, Nana Akua; Chasukwa, Michael; … - 2014
This paper examines the current interest in addressing the problem of young people's unemployment in Africa through agriculture. Using notions of transitions and mobilities we set out a transformative work and opportunity space framework that privileges difference and diversity among work...
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Evaluation of the obstacles against the economic development of Cihanbeyli rural area
Yavuz, Fadim; Bozdað, Ayla - 2014
Cihanbeyli, located in Salt Lake (SL) Basin, is the largest county of Turkey in terms of its area. In total 56.105 people live in the county and its rural population is 7.005. According to data of 2011 year, Cihanbeyli's social development level is at the tenth of 31 counties of the Konya...
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Can commercial farming promote rural dynamism in sub-Saharan Africa? : evidence from Mozambique
Glover, Steven M.; Jones, Sam - 2016
The impact of large commercial farms on neighbouring smallholders in low-income sub-Saharan Africa remains controversial. Bringing evidence to a largely anecdotal debate, we deploy a dataset covering all commercial farms in Mozambique, linking them to a nationally representative survey of...
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Promoting the multifunctionality of agriculture, forestry, and rural areas : design and implementation of public policies in Germany
Lehmann, Paul; Schleyer, Christian; Wüstemann, Henry; … - 2005
The multiple roles and functions of agriculture and forestry beyond those of supplying food and fibre, such as the provision of environmental benefits and the contribution to the socio-economic viability of rural areas, account for a growing recognition in both scientific debates and political...
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