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Worsening Food Crisis in Nigeria : A Discourse on Bail-Out Options
Nwachukwu, Ifeanyi Ndubuto - 2015
Food crises triggered by high prices had been experienced in agricultural markets in the past. However, the current state of agricultural markets has raised a lot of concerns to policy makers, media, the public and all stakeholders. This is against the background of the fact that only a selected...
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Fixing the Business of Food : Aligning Food Company Practices with the SDGs
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, Columbia … - 2021
This report is part of an ongoing annual series of reports on Fixing the Business of Food initiated and actively supported by the Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition (BCFN). The report is the product of a team including BCFN, the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI) at Columbia...
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Informational and Structural Changes for a Sustainable Food System
Czarnezki, Jason J. - 2018
example, farmers' markets and community-supported agriculture) and the organic movement as it relates to small farmers. Part …
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Agricultural financing to guarantee food safety in an emerging nation : a case study of Nigeria
Omodero, Cordelia Onyinyechi; Ehikioya, Benjamin - In: Verslas : teorija ir praktika : Vilniaus Gedimino … 23 (2022) 1, pp. 53-59
Investment in agriculture is very crucial in the present situation of Nigeria. The effort to overcome food insecurity …, the right step to take is to adequately finance agriculture in order to ensure sufficient food production and safety that … will save the future of the country. This study emphasizes on investment in agriculture to guarantee food security in …
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State of Agricultural Production and Food Security in Russia in 2022
Shagaida, Natalia; Ternovskiy, Denis - 2023
In 2022, index of physical volume of agricultural output in agricultural organizations, peasant (private) farms and household farms grew by 10.2% as compared to the previous year. In monetary terms growth was 14.8% due to rising prices on agricultural products (+4.2%, i.e. much lower as compared...
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Role of foreign direct investments in agriculture, forestry and fishing in developing countries
Nyiwul, Linus; Koirala, Niraj P. - In: Future Business Journal 8 (2022), pp. 1-12
particular, decreased capital inflows into agriculture will negatively affect food security and growth. However, there remain …, we find that there exists bidirectional causality between foreign direct investments in agriculture, forestry and fishing … in the agriculture, forestry and fishing. The effect of FDI on value added in agriculture, forestry and fishing remains …
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Evaluating nutrition and health impacts of agricultural innovations
Qaim, Matin - 2014
details of these agriculture-nutrition-health linkages are not yet well understood. While there is a broad literature on the …
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Agricultural extension and technology adoption for food security : evidence from Uganda
Pan, Yao; Smith, Stephen C.; Sulaiman, Munshi - 2015
This paper evaluates causal impacts of a large-scale agricultural extension program for smallholder women farmers on food security in Uganda through a regression discontinuity design that exploits an arbitrary distance-to-branch threshold for village program eligibility. We find eligible farmers...
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Small-Scale Farming and Food Security : The Enabling Role of Cash Transfers in South Africa's Former Homelands
von Fintel, Dieter - 2016
Cash transfers successfully alleviate poverty in many developing countries. South Africa is a case in point, implementing one of the largest unconditional cash transfer programmes internationally, and with substantial benefits to household well-being along multiple dimensions. Yet, grants...
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Why Do Farmers Behave as They Do? Understanding Compliance with Rural, Agricultural and Food Attribute Standards
Herzfeld, Thomas - 2015
not only relevant with, respect to agriculture's traditional activity (i.e. food production), but is also highly relevant …
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