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Global economic growth and agricultural land conversion under uncertain productivity improvements in agriculture
Lanz, Bruno; Dietz, Simon; Swanson, Timothy M. - 2017 - This version: May 2017
traditional consumption good and an agricultural sector produces food to sustain contemporaneous population. Agriculture demands … factor productivity in agriculture, we show that uncertainty optimally requires more land to be converted into agricultural …
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An innovative approach to food security policy in developing countries
Boratyńska, Katarzyna T.; Tofiq Huseynov, Raqif - In: Journal of innovation & knowledge : JIK 2 (2017) 1, pp. 39-44
The article describes and analyzes the innovative concept of food security policy and presents theoretical microeconomic model of food security by Abdulai (2000) that explains individuals’ demand for food ingredients. The literature review involves both direct and indirect policy measures that...
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On the water-energy-food nexus: is there multivariate convergence?
Bollino, Carlo Andrea; Galeotti, Marzio - 2021
This paper provides new evidence on the convergence process of energy, water and food per capita consumption levels for 108 countries from 1971 to 2018, using a common data set, with VAR and panel data approach. We establish a new notion of multivariate sigma and beta-convergence. The results...
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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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Financing "a sustainable food future" : some thoughts for the G20
Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio - 2018
, those that have been called Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) or Climate-friendly Sustainable Agriculture (CFSA). It explores …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011908142
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Does climate change make foodgrain yields more unpredictable : evidence from India
Verma, Saumya; Gupta, Shreekant; Sen, Partha - 2020
How would climate change affect India’s agriculture which accounts for sixty percent of employment? We study the impact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012177019
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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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Cuba : agricultural transition and food security in a global perspective
Riera, Olivia; Swinnen, Johan F. M. - 2015
This paper reviews the situation in the agricultural sector and food security in Cuba and in particular the transformations that have (not) taken place since 1990. We compare the Cuban transition with transitions in other "transition countries" and show that Cuba does not fit easily in one of...
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Nigeria and the Development Quagmire : Prospects of Development through Agriculture, Food Security and Agro-Based Industrialization
Agoben, Tesky Timothy - 2018
This paper focused on ‘The Prospects of Nigeria's Development through Agriculture, National Food Security and Agro …, the role of agriculture in a country's development were highlighted and it was found out from previous agricultural and … developmental journals that, agriculture has the potentials to reduce poverty, provide employment, ensure food sufficiency in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012917544
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Impact of climate smart agriculture on food security: an agent-based analysis
Bazzana, Davide; Foltz, Jeremy D.; Zhang, Ying - 2021
The study proposes an agent-based model to investigate how adoption of climate smart agriculture (CSA) affects food …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012519988