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Implementing Sustainable Development Goals within the COVID-19 pandemic future challenges for the 2030 Agenda
Żbikowska, Anna Rydz - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 25 (2022) 4, pp. 135-160
The COVID-19 pandemic has severely changed the world economy and jeopardized the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals on a large scale. Progress in meeting the goals of the 2030 Agenda has been significantly disrupted and stalled, undermining previous efforts of governments and...
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Mainstreaming Sustainable Coffee
Kolk, Ans - 2010
This overview article examines the various dimensions of sustainable coffee as well as the actors involved and their perceptions on how to advance the market from niche to mainstream. The issues at hand are very complex, with different types of coffee producers, manufacturing/roasting companies...
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Reclaiming the Right to Food as a Normative Response to the Global Food Crisis
Narula, Smita - 2015
The number of hungry in the world has crossed the one billion mark, a dubious milestone that has been attributed in large part to consecutive food and economic crises. Over ninety-eight percent of these individuals live in the developing world. Ironically, a great majority are involved in food...
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Global food and crude-oil price shocks of 2007-2008 : welfare effects in Kenya
Onyango, Christopher Hugh; Kiriti-Nganga, Tabitha W.; … - In: Asian African journal of economics and econometrics 17 (2017) 2, pp. 217-237
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The Legal and Economic Implications of Economic Partnership Agreements in Kenya's Trade Arena : Assessing Liberalization of Agriculture and Food Security
Juma, Jill - 2010
Agreements, and its legal and economic effect on Kenya's Agricultural Sector/Industry within the purview of the General Agreement … that Kenya is a developing Nation with higher economic obligations and ambitions than that of its trading partner the … in Kenya's Agriculture sector because Kenya is a signatory of the 1978 UPOV Act whereas there is in place the 1991 UPOV …
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Climate change impacts on global agriculture
Calzadilla, Alvaro; Rehdanz, Katrin; Betts, Richard A.; … - 2010
Based on predicted changes in the magnitude and distribution of global precipitation, temperature and river flow under the IPCC SRES A1B and A2 scenarios, this study assesses the potential impacts of climate change and CO2 fertilization on global agriculture. The analysis uses the new version of...
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Agriculture and Non-Agricultural Liberalization in the Millennium Round
Hertel, Thomas W.; Anderson, Kym; Francois, Joseph F.; … - 2000
Until the Uruguay Round, agricultural trade policies were subject to few multilateral disciplines. In this situation, the interplay of special-interest lobbying pressures resulted in this sector becoming heavily distorted. One of the great achievements of the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations...
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Gmos, Trade Policy, and Welfare in Rich and Poor Countries
Nielsen, Chantal; Anderson, Kym - 2012
The new agricultural biotechnologies that are generating genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are seen as exciting and valuable developments by many people who recognise the improvements in production efficiency that they offer. Others, however, are objecting strongly to their use. Both...
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Identifying conflict and violence in micro-level surveys
Brück, Tilman; Justino, Patricia; Verwimp, Philip; … - 2010
The overall goal of the report is to increase the capacity of researchers and policy makers to identify comparatively, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an extensive overview of existing practices and datasets used...
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Getreidehandel und Exportbeschränkungen während des Ukrainekrieges
Götz, Linde Johanna; Svanidze, Miranda - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 103 (2023) 13 (Konferenzheft), pp. 37-41
Der Ukrainekrieg hat zu einem Rückgang der Weizenausfuhren aus Russland und der Ukraine nach Afrika geführt, die jedoch durch gesteigerte Exporte anderer Länder nahezu ausgeglichen wurden. Weltweite Beschränkungen der Weizenexporte sowie die Unsicherheit, dass Russland seine Getreideexporte...
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