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This report contains an empirical analysis of the productivity and sustainability performance of different types of farms in thirteen countries. Farm productivity performance is measured through estimates of average productivity levels and through annual rates of technical change. Evidence on...
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This paper applies the framework for pro-poor analysis to welfare changes from a CGE-microsimulation model to analyze what are the better or worse models for agriculture modernization, and to estimate the contribution of growth and redistribution to changes in poverty in DRC. The findings...
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This paper applies the framework for pro-poor analysis to welfare changes from a CGE-microsimulation model to analyze what are the better or worse models for agriculture modernization, and to estimate the contribution of growth and redistribution to changes in poverty in DRC. The findings...
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Economic and population growth increasingly pressure the Earth system. Fertile soils are essential to ensure global food security, requiring high-yielding agro-technological regimes to cope with rising soil degradation and macro-nutrients deficiencies, which may be further exacerbated by climate...
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sector gain influence at the expense of other, non-food lobbies and the general population. In this framework, technology … plays an important role. Technology, by increasing the rate at which the economy expands, allows government to reap the … rewards of special interest participation in policy formation while increasing national welfare. -- Trade ; technology …
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We measure the impact of the removal of a railway transportation subsidy on the adoption of technology for Western … production technology. We also find that farmers experiencing the greatest transportation cost increases also increased …
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The paper analyses the impact of agricultural technologies on the four pillars of food security for maize farmers in Tanzania. Relying on matching techniques, we use a nationally representative dataset collected over the period 2010/2011 to estimate the causal effects of using improved seeds and...
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This study analyzes the performance of Latin America and the Caribbean's agriculture between 1980 and 2012 looking at the contribution of inputs, and total factor productivity (TFP) to growth in output per worker. A growth accounting approach that goes along the lines of neoclassical growth...
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processes. This article sheds light and focuses on the interplay between public administration, block-chain technology, and … scrutinize the application of block-chain technology in the field of public administration, its potential to enhance citizens … citizens. The article follows a recommendation given by scholars doing research on the block-chain technology, who identified …
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and labelling are still not implemented in Norway. The Norwegian 1993 Gene Technology Act says in Section 1 that genetic …
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