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This study provides an alternative explanation for the unusual apparent decline in food consumption in rural China after 2000. We find that it is mainly attributable to significant measurement errors in the Chinese Rural Household Survey and the calculation of per capita food consumption. In a...
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fixed prices in relation to a mechanism that allows prices to adjust. In a simulation of the policies carried out in 2009 in …
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The main objective of this work is to review the recent achievements on the mechanisms explaining local and rural development, which underpin the current definition of rural areas in the European literature. The analysis carried out in this article acknowledges a gap between local development...
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from smallholder farmers at a pan-territorial price that typically exceeds maize market prices in surplus production areas …
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economic activities in the area are agriculture, livestock and industrial salt production. All the cultivated land is reserved … lands, insufficient water resources for the agriculture with the impact of the SL, Being one of the Turkey's low rainfall … the agriculture in the region. Depending on the threat of drought, significant productivity and quality issues are being …
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The multiple roles and functions of agriculture and forestry beyond those of supplying food and fibre, such as the … multifunctionality of agriculture, forestry, and rural areas, this report provides an overview of the scientific work that has been done …
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prices and improves recreational opportunities. No statistically significant evidence was found that high CRP enrollments …
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Support of agriculture is justified, among others, by its contribution to rural economic development. Nevertheless, the … relation between agricultural and general economic development may be ambiguous. On the one side, agriculture may affect other … of common factors, specifically labour, by agriculture and other sectors. Under these circumstances, support of …
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The 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (the Rio Conference) heralded a new era of environmental law, with its purpose to formulate strategies to achieve sustainable development worldwide, recognising the interconnectedness of all systems on earth, and the need to...
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Can more vigorous political competition significantly raise rural land values, or contribute to more robust land rental markets? Exploiting exogenous variation in the national popularity of Pakistan’s political parties during the 2008 elections, we show that provincial assembly constituencies...
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