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Chapter 63 Development Aid and Agriculture
Herdt, Robert W. - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 4, (pp. 3253-3304). 2010
This chapter is motivated by the question of whether development assistance directed at agriculture (agricultural aid … development, irrigation, research, extension, and higher education. However, except for the World Bank's Operations Evaluation … results. Aid to agriculture from nearly all donors fell precipitously beginning in the mid-1980s despite clear evidence that …
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Food prices and political instability
Arezki, Rabah; Brückner, Markus - 2011
We examine the effects that variations in the international food prices have on democracy and intra-state conflict using panel data for over 120 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main finding is that in Low Income Countries increases in the international food prices lead to a...
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Developing Social Entrepreneurship in the EU : A Cross-Country Analysis
Terziev, Venelin - 2020
The development of the European social model rests on the concept of social entrepreneurship. The concept has a significant contribution to the development of the European social economy. Social entrepreneurship has a remarkable potential, through its innovative solutions, to play an...
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Natural Resources, Development Models and Sustainable Development
Auty, Richard M. - 2003
reductions in pollution intensity lag. Recent research identifies resource abundance as an important cause of policy failure …
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Food Prices and Political Instability
Arezki, Rabah - 2013
We examine the effects that variations in the international food prices have on democracy and intra-state conflict using panel data for over 120 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main finding is that in Low Income Countries increases in the international food prices lead to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092514
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A Brief Understanding of Hunger and its Resolution
Giovannucci, Daniele - 2014
Food is one of the most primal ways to transmit culture and traditions and thus has vital and even cross-generational importance for us. Nevertheless, many of us have gone beyond relating to food as a primal need. So, in this age of abundance, food is either under-appreciated as epitomized by...
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Inequality, Poverty and Hunger in Developing Countries : Sustainability Implications
Nwaobi, Godwin Chukwudum - 2014
For several decades, the international community has aspired to integrate the social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainability. Yet, no country has achieved the patterns of consumption and production that could sustain global prosperity in the coming decades. Thus, with the...
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Promoting Gender Sensitivity and Environment Protection through Sustainable Tourism Development : A Review
Mohanty, Priyakrushna; Chandran, Anu; Swain, Nilamadhab - 2021
in contemporary research dialect is referred to as “Ecofeminism”. Finally, the environment is one of the most important …
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A novel NGO approach to facilitate the adoption of sustainable innovations in low-income countries : lessons from small-scale farms in Nicaragua
Dyck, Bruno; Silvestre, Bruno S. - In: Organization studies : an international … 40 (2019) 3, pp. 443-461
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Recommendations toward successful agribusiness venture arrangement
Pantoja, Blanquita R.; Alvarez, Joanne V.; Sanchez, … - 2019
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