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Food production in 2050 will be sufficient, globally, but many of the poor will remain food insecure. The primary cause … of food insecurity will continue to be poverty, rather than inadequate food production. Thus, policies and investments … that increase the incomes of the poor will remain the best ways to extend food security to all. Investments that promote …
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and the world food situation. Our results show some of the implications that biofuels expansion has on crop area expansion …
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In recent decades, the off-site transport of sediment and nutrients from agricultural land into the neighbouring natural and built environment has become a more pressing environmental sustainability issue than the on-site threats of soil erosion in many of the world’s temperate regions. In the...
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Fukushima nuclear disaster on the Japanese agriculture and food sector. It contains fourteen parts: introduction with the …, infrastructure and businesses; assessments of impacts on food industries; analysis of radioactive contamination of agri-food products …; evaluation of the effects on markets, consumers and international trade; analysis of effects on food regulation and inspection …
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This paper examines the heavily supported Swiss food and agriculture sector. It reviews some of the key features and …
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At present about 4% of Russia’s GDP is generated in agriculture; however, the sector still accounts for 9.7% of the total number of employed in domestic economy with 26% of the country’s population living in rural areas. The latter indicator has remained actually unchanged throughout the 10...
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Stochastic frontier production function analysis was performed to examine relative crop and milk production efficiency among peasants in Ada and Selale districts of the Central highlands of Ethiopia. The results indicate that Ada farmers exhibit relatively higher efficiency scores in cereal...
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production efficiency and attainment of food self-sufficiency could be attained if development strategies design methods of …
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The March 11, 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear plant accident have had immense impacts on Japanese agri-food sector … agriculture, food industries and consumers as well as factors for persistence of negative impacts, and longer-term impacts on … Fukushima nuclear disaster on the Japanese agriculture and food sector. Nearly four years after the triple disaster, it gives …
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There are few publications on various impacts of Fukushima nuclear disaster on agri-food sector in Japan in English … agrarian and food sector is far from being completely evaluated. This paper tries to fill the gap and assesses diverse impacts … of Fukushima nuclear disaster on Japanese agriculture and food chains. First, a framework of analysis is presented …
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