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Oil and Agriculture in the Post-Separation Sudan
Siddig, Khalid H.A. - Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Khartoum - 2012
’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) ended more than 20 years of civil war. According to the CPA, the Sudan’s government has 50% of the oil … exploited from the wells existing in the south in addition to the oil produced from the northern wells. The latter represents … about 30% of the total oil production in Sudan. In January 2011, the people in southern Sudan have voted for separation from …
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Feasibility of Biofuel Production in Kenya: The Case of Jatropha
Mogaka, Violet Moraa; Mbatia, Oliver; Nzuma, Jonathan M. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
This paper evaluates the potential of Jatropha curcas Linnaeus (Jatropha) as an alternative source of energy for rural households. The plant is said to have potential to diversify rural incomes, reclaim unproductive lands, reduce importation of fossil fuels, and consequently accumulation of...
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Price Dynamics in Food-Energy Market in China
Yang, Juan; Leatham, David J. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
among these six variables: rice, wheat, corn, coal, crude oil and ethanol. Our major contribution to the existing literature …, crop price is driving the energy price, while in the long run, crude oil is the leading factor that drives food and other …
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Causes and countermeasures for the food crisis in developing countries
Lu, Yu-si; Huang, Wen-an - In: Asian Agricultural Research 1 (2009) 01
We analyze the causes of food crisis in developing countries according to the global food crisis at present. Finally, we put forward some relevant policy suggestions for coping with the food crisis.
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Evaluating the 1996 EU food aid reform: Did it really lead to better targeting?
Maas, Sarah - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
The paper analyses the 1996 EU food aid reform and addresses the question of its impact on improving EU food aid allocation in terms of reaching those countries which are most vulnerable to food insecurity. Using a two-stage regression model the analysis finds that EU food aid in kind is...
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Liberalization of Staple Crops: Lessons from the Mexican Experience in Maize
Yunez-Naude, Antonio; Serrano-Cote, Valeria - 2009
In this paper we inquire why after more than 25 years of domestic agricultural reforms in Mexico and 15 years of trade liberalization of maize under NAFTA –a non-competitive crop and the major staple in Mexico–domestic production of this field crop has increased. We present new empirical...
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2009
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Creating Scarcity From Abundance: Bumper Harvests, High Prices, And The Role Of State Interventions In Zambian Maize Markets
Kuteya, Auckland N.; Sitko, Nicholas J. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2014
From 2010 through 2012 harvest seasons, Zambian farmers produced three consecutive maize bumper harvests. The total maize production during this period was 8.6 million metric tonness, of which 4.6 million metric tonnes was a marketable surplus (CSO/MAL various years). This far exceeded the...
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Facilitating access to rural services in Vietnam: The invisible social capital link
Hoang Dinh, Quoc; Dufhues, Thomas; Buchenrieder, Gertrud - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
This paper investigates the effects of network based individual social capital on the access of rural households to services. In the context of development economics, an innovative data collection approach is used to determine network based social capital. The approach originates from the field...
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Lessons from the California GM Labeling Proposition on the State of Crop Biotechnology
Zilberman, David; Kaplan, Scott; Kim, Eunice; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
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