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The world is banking on a major increase in food production, if the dietary needs and food preferences of an increasing …, and increasingly rich, population are to be met. This requires the further expansion of modern agriculture, but modern … agriculture rests on a small number of highly productive crops and its expansion has led to a significant loss of global …
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the world's freshwater supplies go to agriculture; in South Asia, agriculture uses over 90%. On-farm greenhouse gas … to "end hunger" and "achieve food security and improved nutrition," while promoting "sustainable agriculture." Lifting …; in Asia, during the same period, on-farm GHG emissions grew by 27%, from 2.5 to 3.2 GtCO2e. All of this puts agriculture …
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traditional consumption good and an agricultural sector produces food to sustain contemporaneous population. Agriculture demands …-2010 data on world GDP, population, cropland and technological progress. Introducing random shocks to the evolution of total … factor productivity in agriculture, we show that uncertainty optimally requires more land to be converted into agricultural …
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Many of the financial and social challenges that face Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA) can be addressed through more efficient and sustainable use of arable land and water resources. In recent years improvements in land and water use have come from an agricultural sector that is...
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and extension to address the numerous challenges along the pathway from agriculture production and distribution to …
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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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, agriculture-nutrition linkages have received a lot of attention in recent years. Researchers have analysed the link between the … third agriculture-nutrition link has been largely neglected in recent years: the impact of how food is produced on human … outcomes substantially and that this neglected agriculture-nutrition linkage deserves more scientific and political attention …
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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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