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, precipitation changes, and unitary irrigation costs. Results suggest different economic consequences of climate change depending on …
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This paper proposes that ancestral use of irrigation reduces contemporary female labor force participation and female … property rights. We test this hypothesis using an exogenous measure of irrigation and data from the Afrobarometer, cross …-country data, the European Social Survey, the American Community Survey, and the India Demographic and Household Survey. Our …
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examine how a producer's beliefs about water shortages influence investment in more efficient irrigation technologies. We then … a more efficient irrigation technology on average. We also present evidence that adoption rates are driven more by … incentivizing adaptation to increasing water scarcity in irrigated agriculture …
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Ziel dieser Fall studie ist, die Wirkung der Ausgleichszulage auf verschiedene Bereiche der Landwirtschaft und des …
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Landwirtschaft und des ländlichen Raumes in einem „typischen“ benachteiligten Gebiet vertieft zu untersuchen. Dazu wurden vorhandene … fields of agriculture and rural development in a “typical” less favoured area, the administrative district St. Wendel … to similar regions was verified. The disadvantage of the agriculture in the LFA of the case region results primarily from …
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process, socioeconomic and environmental features. Type A includes areas of periurban agriculture surrounding the metropolitan … cities, type B areas of intensive agriculture with high concentration of agroindustry, type C hilly areas with highly … diversified agriculture and valuable landscape, and type D high hills and mountains with forests and protected areas. Areas A and …
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This study used a nationally representative survey from the 2012-2013 World Bank's General Household Survey for Nigeria, to examine the relationship between empowerment, measured using a modification of the Alkire et al. (2013) empowerment index, and household dietary diversity, based on the FAO...
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