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the developing world while permitting lavish subsidies and import-restrictive tariffs in industrialized countries. This …
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This paper examines the prospects for organic agriculture (OA) and the production of biofuels as strategies for rural … may be a preferred strategy than to intensify agriculture through conventional methods and compete with more developed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279674
Many developing nations, especially the least developed countries, are subjected to recurrent spells of food insecurity. In order to understand food insecurity in these countries it is necessary to consider not only immediate or trigger-causes of food crises, but also its underlying or systemic...
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This paper examines the prospects for organic agriculture (OA) and the production of biofuels as strategies for rural … may be a preferred strategy than to intensify agriculture through conventional methods and compete with more developed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003719210
with a hypothetical first-best policy. The analysis focusses on the distortions in land allocation between agriculture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476556
with a hypothetical first-best policy. The analysis focusses on the distortions in land allocation between agriculture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260631
Achieving optimal diversity at community level is a key in solving the rural development problem. In this essay rural development at community level and the impact of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reforms are analyzed in the framework of privately provided public goods models. It is shown...
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agriculture. Using notions of transitions and mobilities we set out a transformative work and opportunity space framework that … that seek to engage young people with agriculture must be more realistic, rooted in more context-specific economic and … social analysis, and appreciative of the variety of ways that rural men and women use agriculture to serve their needs and …
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The impact of large commercial farms on neighbouring smallholders in low-income sub-Saharan Africa remains controversial. Bringing evidence to a largely anecdotal debate, we deploy a dataset covering all commercial farms in Mozambique, linking them to a nationally representative survey of...
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the prospects for immigrants to work in agriculture in the region. The paper seeks to explore the role of labour skills … conceptual insights to explore the current potential of agriculture to provide employment and livelihood possibilities for …
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