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A bi-objective genetic approach for the selection of sugarcane varieties to comply with environmental and economic requirements

Oliveira Florentino, Helenice de; Pato, M. V. - In: Journal of the Operational Research Society : OR 65 (2014) 6, pp. 842-854

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A perspective on operational research prospects for agriculture

Plà, Lluís M.; Sandars, Daniel L.; Higgins, Andrew J. - In: Journal of the Operational Research Society : OR 65 (2014) 7, pp. 1078-1089

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Non-farm enterprise productivity and spatial autocorrelation in rural Africa : evidence from Ethiopia and Nigeria

Owoo, Nkechi S.; Naudé, Wim - 2014

The productivity of non-farm enterprises in rural Africa may be associated with the productivity of other spatially proximate farm and non-farm enterprises. To test for the presence and significance of such spatial autocorrelation we use data from the geo-referenced 2011 Ethiopian Rural...

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Self-selection into credit markets : evidence from agriculture in Mali

Beaman, Lori; Karlan, Dean; Thuysbaert, Bram; Udry, … - 2014

We partnered with a micro-lender in Mali to randomize credit offers at the village level. Then, in no-loan control villages, we gave cash grants to randomly selected households. These grants led to higher agricultural investments and profits, thus showing that liquidity constraints bind with...

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Russia's food security and climate change : looking into the future

Kiselev, Sergey; Romashkin, Roman; Nelson, Gerald C.; … - 2013

Global climate change presents long-term risks to agriculture. In general, global climate change is expected to … positively affect Russian agriculture. In high and middle latitudes, global warming would expand the growing season. Acreages of … production in the Russian Federation. It also considers adaptive measures for agriculture in response to climate change. …

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Soybeans, poverty and inequality in the Brazilian Amazon

Weinhold, Diana; Killick, Evan; Reis, Eustáquio José - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 52 (2013), pp. 132-143

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The structure of production in Greek agriculture : elasticities of substitution and derived factor price elasticities

Melfou, Katerina; Theocharopoulos, Athanasios; … - In: Spudai / University of Piraeus : journal of economics … 59 (2009) 3/4, pp. 32-48

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Foreign aid and sustainable agriculture in Africa

Umbadda, Siddig; Elgizouli, Ismail - 2013

Although agriculture is important for the livelihood of most Africans, especially the poor, donors did not accord it a … high priority. Both volume and share of aid earmarked for agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa not only remained low, around …

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Foreign aid for capacity-building to address climate change : insights and applications

Victor, David G. - 2013

The paper examines the role of foreign aid in building capacity to address climate change. While the experience with this topic is relatively recent and not yet extensive, analogous questions have arisen in many other areas of foreign aid. It is likely that climate change aid programmes work...

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Evaluation of accounting systems used by companies in the agriculture sector in Jordan : a field study

Al-Saidat, Ziad Mohammad - In: International journal of economics and finance 6 (2014) 2, pp. 87-97

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