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An Assessment of the Effects of Root and Tuber Expansion Project (RTEP) on the Livelihood of Cassava Processors in Kwara State, Nigeria
Alli, Achem Bello; Adebola, Akangbe Jones; Olayinka, … - In: International Journal of Agricultural Management and … 03 (2013) 3
The study was carried out to assess the effects of the Root and Tuber Expansion Programme (RTEP) on the livelihood of … characteristics of the respondents. The t-test was used to test the hypotheses on the relationship between the income and livelihood …-economic characteristics and livelihood of RTEP and Non RTEP participants. There was however a significant difference in their income. Amongst …
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Semi-Subsistence Farming, Farm Income and Social Capital in Bulgaria – Is there a Link?
Wolz, Axel; Fritzsch, Jana; Shterev, Nikolai; … - In: Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture 49
Social capital matters in determining a person’s or a family’s material well-being. It is argued that social capital functions similar to the traditional production factors. However, there are not many empirical analyses looking into this hypothesis at the farm-household level in...
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Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture in Kyiv (Ukraine): "Crisis Induced Strategy" versus Recreational Resource
Komirenko, Z.; Hoermann, D.M. - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2008
results show that depending on the type of plot the importance of UPA shifts from livelihood necessity to recreational …
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Agricultural Income Determinants among Smallholder Farmers: Case of Northern Part of Burundi
Nzabakenga, Alfred; Feng, Luo Xiao; Yaqin, He - In: Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development 03 (2013) 11
About 90 percent of Burundi population depends on agriculture for their livelihoods. Agriculture employs the majority of labor force and is the basis source of income particularly for people living in rural areas. Agricultural income determines the purchasing power of many people living in rural...
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Alleviating Rural Farmers Poverty through Effective Micro credit: Evaluation of UNDP Intervention in Delta State
Ike, P.C.; Uzokwe, U.N. - In: Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development 02 (2012) 03
recommended that since the micro credit has been effective in improving the livelihood of the low income house-holds, the …
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A német keleti tartományok és Magyarország mezőgazdasági jövedelemhelyzetének összehasonlító elemzése
Barath, Lajos; Szabo, Gabor G. - 2010
A cikkben hazánk és a német keleti tartományok mezőgazdasági jövedelemhelyzetének összehasonlítását tűztük ki célul, az egy hektár mezőgazdasági területre jutó jövedelemkategóriák alapján. A jövedelmek összehasonlítása arra szolgált, hogy a jelenlegi helyzet...
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A német keleti tartományok és Magyarország mezőgazdasági jövedelemhelyzetének összehasonlító elemzése
Baráth, Lajos; Szabo, Gabor G. - In: GAZDÁLKODÁS: Scientific Journal on Agricultural Economics 54 (2010) 3
A cikkben hazánk és a német keleti tartományok mezőgazdasági jövedelemhelyzetének összehasonlítását tűztük ki célul, az egy hektár mezőgazdasági területre jutó jövedelemkategóriák alapján. A jövedelmek összehasonlítása arra szolgált, hogy a jelenlegi helyzet...
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Economics of Co-Existence Measures of GM and Conventional Maize in Spain and Germany
Petzoldt, Marina; Menrad, Klaus; Reitmeier, Daniela - 2007
Paper prepared for presentation at the Third International Conference onCoexistence between Genetically Modified (GM) and non-GM basedAgricultural Supply Chains (GMCC)Seville (Spain), 20th and 21st November 2007
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Spatial Price Analysis Incorporating Rate of Trade: Methods and Application to United States–China Soybean Trade
Han, Shengfei; Durham, Catherine A. - 2010
A regime-switching model for analysis of market integration has been developed that incorporates rate of trade information. An application of the methods to United States–China soybean trade demonstrates that the extended trade information allows better interpretation of market conditions....
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How to increase the effectiveness of agri-environmental subsidy schemes through knowledge of farmer perceptions-a choice experiment on pesticide free buffer zones
Christensen, Tove; Pedersen, Anders Branth; Nielsen, … - 2010
Danish farmers have been far less interested in agri-environmental subsidy schemes than anticipated. We use choiceexperiments to estimate 486 Danish farmers’ preferences for a number of policy relevant scheme-characteristics.Subsidy schemes for pesticide free buffer zones along hedgerows are...
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