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Drivers of farm performance : empirical country case studies
Sauer, Johannes; Moreddu, Catherine - 2020
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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Gender differentiation in the analysis of alternative farm mechanization choices on small farms in Kenya
Wanjiku, Julliet; Manyengo, John Uhuru; Oluoch-Kosura, … - 2007
the most commonly used. Gender, formal and informal training of the household head, and technology attributes influence … the choice of mechanization technology. This study recommends increased formal and informal training, extension, credit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284644
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When to go local, when to go edible: Trade, technology and food security
Koch, William L.; Sadler, Thomas R. - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287763
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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
agricultural development and technology and the paper uses other secondary sources. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012671749
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Total Factor Productivity in Chinese agriculture: The role of infrastructure
Weiping, CHEN; Ying, DING - In: Frontiers of Economics in China 2 (2007) 2, pp. 212-223
Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University, Osaka 560-C8531, Japan
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UN Food Systems Summit 2021 - what role science and innovation in the summit and in countries' plans and why?
Braun, Joachim von - 2023
reviewing the 118 country reports of National Pathways. In 62% of the countries' strategies science, research, technology and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013484781
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The Rise of Neolithic Agriculture
Olsson, Ola - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2001
The article analyzes the economic reasons behind the rise of Neolithic agriculture some 10,000 years ago in consideration of evidence that agriculture was not associated with increasing standards of living. On the basis of archeological and anthropological literature, the article presents a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005651643
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UN Food Systems Summit 2021 - What role science and innovation in the summit and in countries' plans and why?
von Braun, Joachim - 2023
reviewing the 118 country reports of National Pathways. In 62% of the countries' strategies science, research, technology and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014471641
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The Long-Run Growth in Obesity as a Function of Technological Change
Philipson, Tomas J.; Posner, Richard A. - Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago - 1999
This paper analyzes the forces contributing to the worldwide long-run rise in obesity and the role of public … interventions in affecting its continued growth. The cause of a growth in obesity in a population must be that calorie consumption … is outpacing the growth of physical activity. Yet in developed countries, obesity has grown with modest rises in calorie …
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The Growth of Obesity and Technological Change: A Theoretical and Empirical Examination
Lakdawalla, Darius; Philipson, Tomas - Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago - 2002
prices, and weight. Using individual-level data from 1976 to 1994, we find that technology-based reductions in food prices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566895