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Growth and Equity Effects of Agricultural Marketing Efficiency Gains in India
Landes, Maurice R.; Burfisher, Mary E. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2009
and households disaggregated by rural, urban, and income class to study the potential impacts of reforms that achieve … prices, and increases private consumption, particularly by low-income households. These gains could help to offset some of … the medium-term adjustment costs for some commodity markets and households associated with reducing agricultural subsidies …
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China’s Agricultural Modernisation Program: an assessment of its sustainability and impacts in the case of the high-value beef chain
Waldron, Scott A.; Brown, Colin G.; Longworth, John W. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
China has embarked on a major program to modernise agricultural and agribusiness structures with far reaching implications for rural development, international competitiveness / trade and food safety. There are, however, few studies that examine in detail how the modernisation program has...
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Labour adjustments in agriculture: evidence from Romania
Tocco, Barbara; Davidova, Sophia; Bailey, Alastair - In: Studies in Agricultural Economics 116 (2014) 2
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Governance of market in the case of local of the "rural web" - case study of an Austrian and Hungarian National Park region
Katona-Kovacs, Judit; Dax, Thomas; Machold, Ingrid - In: Rural Areas and Development 8
Rural development processes can be interpreted as the result of an increasingly complex interplay of different driving forces. The 'rural web' concept, developed recently as a theoretical framework, emerges as the intersection of six inter-related dimensions (endogenity, novelty production,...
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The Agricultural Production Survey: The purpose and operation
Groves, Stephen - New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2010
The Agricultural Production Survey (APS) is Statistics New Zealand’s vehicle for collecting important information about New Zealand’s primary production. It is an annual postal survey and covers land use, livestock and arable farming, horticultural and forestry production, and selected farm...
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Population and Sustainability: Understanding Population, Environment, and Development Linkages
Clay, Daniel C.; Reardon, Thomas - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 1998
account the compatibilities and inconsistencies among them. Farm households and their livelihood strategies are at the core of …
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Medição do Impacto dos Bens Públicos e Privados sobre os Rendimentos Familiares Provenientes de Culturas em Moçambique Rural, 2002-2005
Mather, David; Donovan, Cynthia; Boughton, Duncan - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009
This brief summarizes detailed analysis of the determinants of household crop income in rural Mozambique from 2002 to 2005. Increased crop income is associated with increases in household land area, use of animal traction, crop diversification into tobacco or cotton, access to market price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008519292
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Measuring the Impact of Public and Private Assets on Household Crop Income in Rural Mozambique, 2002-2005
Mather, David; Donovan, Cynthia; Boughton, Duncan - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009
This brief summarizes detailed analysis of the determinants of household crop income in rural Mozambique from 2002 to 2005. Increased crop income is associated with increases in household land area, use of animal traction, crop diversification into tobacco or cotton, access to market price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008519295
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Are Staple Foods Becoming More Expensive For Urban Consumers In Eastern And Southern Africa? Trends in Food Prices, Marketing Margins, and Wage Rates in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique,...
Mason, Nicole M.; Jayne, Thomas S.; Donovan, Cynthia; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009
The world food and financial crises threaten to undermine the real incomes of urban consumers in eastern and southern Africa. This study investigates patterns in staple food prices, wage rates, and marketing margins for urban consumers in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia between 1993 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530524
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Tunisian agriculture: Are small farms doomed to disappear?
Jouili, Mustapha - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2009
In Tunisia, small and medium-sized family farms dominate agriculture. From the early 80s, with the introduction of the Structural Adjustment Program (SAP), the conditions of production and reproduction of small farms have radically changed. In addition to the unfavorable trend of the prices,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004998979