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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010474743
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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 …
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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
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Impact of Climate Smart Agriculture on Food Security : An Agent-based Analysis
Bazzana, Davide; Foltz, Jeremy; 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/10013225782
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Does the contract type matter? : impact of marketing and production contracts on cashew farmers' farm performance in Ghana
Dubbert, Caroline; Abdulai, Awudu - In: Journal of agricultural & food industrial organization 20 (2022) 2, pp. 119-134
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South Asian Free Trade Area and food trade : implications for regional food security
Ward, Megan; Herr, Hansjörg; Pédussel Wu, Jennifer - 2020
This paper explores the impact of the South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) agreement on food security by using a gravity model to examine the regional changes in trade in agricultural products. This is followed by a discussion of how this might affect the four dimensions of food security,...
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