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The Stolypin Reform and Agricultural Productivity in Late Imperial Russia
Castañeda Dower, Paul - 2018
We study the effect of changes in land tenure, launched by the 1906 Stolypin reform, on agricultural productivity in late Imperial Russia. The reform allowed peasants to obtain land titles and consolidate separated land strips into single allotments. Our estimations suggest that the net effect...
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Between rack rents and paternalism : economic behaviour and the lease market in Westphalia, with a particular focus on the 19th century
Bracht, Johannes; Scholten-Buschhoff, Friederike - In: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte 63 (2022) 1, pp. 17-53
Departing from research on Westphalian leases between 1600 and 1900 the paper discusses the lease market of and price determination on three Westphalian estates. While economic history approaches suppose that leases can be seen as market relations and are therefore useful indicators to measure...
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Gender Dimensions of Mountain Agriculture : A Note on Arunachal Pradesh, India
Mishra, Aparimita - 2021
Agriculture in Arunachal Pradesh, a state located in the eastern Himalayas, used to be primarily need-based. Slash and burn agriculture, locally called jhum, was the foundation of the traditional economy. In the past decades, agriculture in the mountain areas has undergone significant change....
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Tracking cultivated assets in measures of capital
Soloveichi, Rachel - 2021
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Profiles of rural households in the North-East Development Region of Romania : case studies
Brumă, Ion Sebastian; Bohatereţ, Valentin Mihai; … - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 201-206). 2017
, livestock and human capital shape the particular features of each place and zone. The present study relies upon field research …
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Typhoon and agricultural production portfolio : empirical evidence for a developing economy
Thi Xuyen Tran - 2021
livestock to adapt to a severe typhoon.We, therefore, make use of a natural experiment coming from the strong typhoon Ketsana in …. While they decrease the crops-planted area, they tend to purchase more livestock in the short term and in the medium term …. Our paper not only indicates the adjustment to the crop-livestock system as an adaptation strategy to a severe typhoon …
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Denmark and Russia : what can we learn from the historical comparison of two great Arctic agricultural empires?
Korchmina, Elena S.; Sharp, Paul - In: Russian journal of economics 7 (2021) 2, pp. 105-118
We propose that the "historically relevant" comparison of the Danish and Russian Empires from the early eighteenth century until the First World War presents a useful starting point for a promising research agenda. We justify the comparison by noting that the two empires enjoyed striking...
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Harvest, railway transportation and banking services to the agriculture in the Central Black Earth Region of the Russian Empire in the late 19 th century
Salomatina, Sofya A.; Ivakin, Vladislav Y. - In: Russian journal of economics 7 (2021) 2, pp. 119-136
This paper studies the influence of the service sector (joint-stock commercial banks and railways) on the economic development of agricultural regions within the Russian empire in the second half of the 19th century, using the case of the Central Black Earth region. The study compares yield data...
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Agricultural innovation and climate change policy in the Brazilian Amazon : intensification practices and the derived demand for pasture
Caviglia-Harris, Jill L. - In: Journal of environmental economics and management : … 90 (2018), pp. 232-248
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Kurz zum Klima: Zu viel Salz verdirbt den Boden
Zimmer, Markus; Lippelt, Jana; Frank, Jonas - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 65 (2012) 19, pp. 51-53
Der zunehmende Einsatz von Anlagen zur Bewässerung sowie mangelnde Erfahrungswerte und Unkenntnis über den richtigen Einsatz der künstlichen Bewässerung haben in den letzten Jahrzehnten zu einer massiven Zunahme der Versalzung des Bodens geführt. Durch diese Bodenversalzung werden weite...
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