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Commons For Sale. Economic And Institutional Change In Nineteenth Century Northern Spain
Berasain, José Miguel Lana - Asociación Española de Historia Económica - AEHE - 2006
This study examines a facet of institutional change in 19th Century Spain. Empirical analysis of a zone in the Ebro valley confirms that the process of selling commons prior to the 1855 Ley de Desamortización (Disentailment Law) was of great significance. It evaluates the nature of the changes...
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The Stolypin Reform and Agricultural Productivity in Late Imperial Russia
Castañeda Dower, Paul - 2018
We study the effect of changes in land tenure, launched by the 1906 Stolypin reform, on agricultural productivity in late Imperial Russia. The reform allowed peasants to obtain land titles and consolidate separated land strips into single allotments. Our estimations suggest that the net effect...
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Gender Dimensions of Mountain Agriculture : A Note on Arunachal Pradesh, India
Mishra, Aparimita - 2021
Agriculture in Arunachal Pradesh, a state located in the eastern Himalayas, used to be primarily need-based. Slash and burn agriculture, locally called jhum, was the foundation of the traditional economy. In the past decades, agriculture in the mountain areas has undergone significant change....
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Trends in Australian Agriculture
Commission, Productivity - Productivity Commission, Government of Australia - 2005
This research paper examines some of the key trends in Australia’s agriculture sector over the last 20 years or so. While continuing to grow in absolute terms, the size and importance of agriculture has declined relative to the rest of the economy. Within the sector, there have been marked...
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Tracking cultivated assets in measures of capital
Soloveichi, Rachel - 2021
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Challenges Ahead of Ailing Indian Agriculture
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper takes stock of the state of agriculture in India, brings out with the stylised facts, issues and emerging challenges related to agriculture sector and then makes an attempt to formulate policy measures for further growth of the Indian agriculture.
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Typhoon and agricultural production portfolio: Empirical evidence for a developing economy
2021
livestock to adapt to a severe typhoon.We, therefore, make use of a natural experiment coming from the strong typhoon Ketsana in …. While they decrease the crops-planted area, they tend to purchase more livestock in the short term and in the medium term …. Our paper not only indicates the adjustment to the crop-livestock system as an adaptation strategy to a severe typhoon …
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Profiles of rural households in the North-East Development Region of Romania : case studies
Brumă, Ion Sebastian; Bohatereţ, Valentin Mihai; … - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 201-206). 2017
, livestock and human capital shape the particular features of each place and zone. The present study relies upon field research …
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Typhoon and agricultural production portfolio : empirical evidence for a developing economy
Thi Xuyen Tran - 2021
livestock to adapt to a severe typhoon.We, therefore, make use of a natural experiment coming from the strong typhoon Ketsana in …. While they decrease the crops-planted area, they tend to purchase more livestock in the short term and in the medium term …. Our paper not only indicates the adjustment to the crop-livestock system as an adaptation strategy to a severe typhoon …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012544516
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Plenty of Land, Land of Plenty. The Agrarian Output of Portugal (1311-20)
Henriques, António - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2014
This article presents a benchmark for Portuguese agrarian output for the 1311-20 decade. This benchmark is built from the supply side, using the value of ecclesiastical tithes, and tested with macro and micro level demand-side information. Compared with existing estimates for contemporary...
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