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Measuring the benefit-cost ratio of public IPM technology transfer programs : an optimal control framework and an application to Nepalese agriculture
Wiebelt, Manfred - 2000
Despite favourable ecological and economic results, many developing countries have not yet adopted an integrated pesticide management (IPM). Given rising marginal costs and diminishing marginal benefits from IPM technology transfer, an optimal control framework is used to identify optimal rates...
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Impact evaluation of support to collective action for agricultural value chain development in Nepal
Raitzer, David A.; Batmunkh, Odbayar - 2022
Matching grant programs administered to agricultural groups and cooperatives have emerged as a means of helping smallholder farmers to commercialize in Nepal. These programs help farmers to access information on new technologies, overcome barriers to productive investment, and connect with...
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Agrarian questions, digitalisation of the countryside, immigrant labour in agriculture and the official discourses on rural development in the Uppsala region, Sweden
Alarcón, Cristián - In: Italian review of agricultural economics 76 (2021) 1, pp. 19-32
This paper focuses on the Uppsala region of Sweden to analyse the dynamics of new agrarian questions intersecting with the prospects for immigrants to work in agriculture in the region. The paper seeks to explore the role of labour skills, agricultural automation and digitalisation of rural...
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Socio-Economic and Environmental Parameters and Results of Rural Development Under the CAP : The Case of Bulgaria
Doitchinova, Julia - 2018
During the ten years of our country's membership in the EU, the implementation of the Rural Development Programme have become a driving force for raising income and improving living conditions in the rural areas. The purpose of this report is to assess the impact of the CAP on rural development...
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Aligning agricultural and rural development policies in the context of structural change
Cervantes-Godoy, Dalila - 2022
investments in agricultural innovation systems, improvements in extension services, and land and water management policies. As the …
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Agriculture and rural areas facing the "twin transition" : principles for a sustainable rural digitalisation
Brunori, Gianluca - In: Italian review of agricultural economics 77 (2022) 3, pp. 3-14
In this paper some of the key issues related to digitalisation in agriculture and rural areas are addressed. In line with the Green Deal, the paper proposes a framework on how to address the "twin transition" (ecological+digital) through transformative policies based on directionality, market...
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Assessing employment and labour market effects of rural infrastructure investments in the Sahel region : cases of Niger and Côte d'Ivoire
Ehuitché, Béké Tite; Tankari, Mahamadou - 2024
Investments in infrastructure are necessary to achieve the objective of Sustainable Development Goal2 (SDG2), which is to "end hunger, ensure food security and promote sustainable agriculture" and to also create jobs in the Sahel region, specifically in Niger and Côte d'Ivoire. A significant...
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Agricultural productivity growth in the European Union and transition countries
Rungsuriyawiboon, Supawat; Lissitsa, Alexej - 2006
Malmquist total factor productivity (TFP) index has been extensively applied in the literature to measure productivity growth decomposition. This study applies a parametric decomposition of a Generalized Malmquist TFP index to measure and compare the levels and trends in agricultural...
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Recent evidence on agricultural efficiency and productivity in China: a metafrontier approach
Rungsuriyawiboon, Supawat; Wang, Xiaobing - 2007
Economic reform in China helped transform the structure and volume of agricultural production and resulted in significant changes in efficiency and productivity. This paper measures agricultural technical efficiency (TE) and total factor productivity (TFP) in China by allowing producers...
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Evaluierung der Gewässerschutzberatung in Hessen im Kontext der EU-Wasserrahmenrichtlinie: Auswirkungen auf Wissen und Handeln von Landwirten
Techen, Anja-Kristina; Ries, Elke; Steinführer, Annett - 2015
From 2012 to 2015 the Thünen-Institute of Rural Studies evaluated the Hessian extension service, provided by the state … depth-interviews as well as one validation round with farmers and two with extension workers after the survey. The study … shows that even though the extension service had been carried out for only one to two years at the time of the survey …
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