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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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Ecosystems for water and food security. [Background paper]
International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
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An ecosystem services approach to water and food security. [Synthesis report].
Chiramba, T.; Khaka, E. - International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010910243
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Biofuels, Growth and Agricultural Development
Msangi, Siwa - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
Global projections for increasing food demand combined with increasing demand for energy from all sources – including crop-based biofuels – point towards greater stress on food systems and their supporting ecosystems. In many parts of the world, increasing household incomes has translated...
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Trade in Food Staples: Promoting Price Stability and Food Security through Intra-Regional Trade
Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2008
Published by Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
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Testing for household resilience to food insecurity: evidence from Nicaragua
Romano, Donato; Ciani, Federico - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2014
The main goal of this paper is to develop a methodology to quantitatively assess resilience to food insecurity. The developed methodology is applied to Nicaraguan rural households hit by Mitch Hurricane in 1999. The proposed resilience index highlights small landowners and agricultural wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125221
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Testing for Household Resilience to Food Insecurity: Evidence from Nicaragua
Ciani, Federico; Donato, Romano - Associazione Italiana di Economia Agraria e Applicata - … - 2014
The main goal of this paper is to develop a methodology to quantitatively assess resilience to food insecurity. The developed methodology is applied to Nicaraguan rural households hit by Mitch Hurricane in 1999. The results show that the proposed resilience index is a good predictor of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011067599
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A meta-regression analysis of frontier efficiency estimates from Africa
Ogundari, Kolawole - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014
The study investigates whether African agricultural efficiency levels has been improving or not and what drives its over the years based on 442 frontier studies using meta-regression analysis. The results show that mean efficiency estimates from studies decrease significantly as year of survey...
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Where is Japan in the land rush debate?
Hall, Derek - In: Canadian journal of development studies 41 (2020) 1, pp. 1-19
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The neoliberal restructuring of agriculture and food in Greece
Konstantinidis, Charalampos - In: Review of radical political economics 48 (2016) 4, pp. 544-552
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