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The world is banking on a major increase in food production, if the dietary needs and food preferences of an increasing …, and increasingly rich, population are to be met. This requires the further expansion of modern agriculture, but modern … agriculture rests on a small number of highly productive crops and its expansion has led to a significant loss of global …
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the world's freshwater supplies go to agriculture; in South Asia, agriculture uses over 90%. On-farm greenhouse gas … to "end hunger" and "achieve food security and improved nutrition," while promoting "sustainable agriculture." Lifting …; in Asia, during the same period, on-farm GHG emissions grew by 27%, from 2.5 to 3.2 GtCO2e. All of this puts agriculture …
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traditional consumption good and an agricultural sector produces food to sustain contemporaneous population. Agriculture demands …-2010 data on world GDP, population, cropland and technological progress. Introducing random shocks to the evolution of total … factor productivity in agriculture, we show that uncertainty optimally requires more land to be converted into agricultural …
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We analyze how agricultural extension can be made more effective in terms of increasing smallholder farmers' adoption of pro-nutrition technologies, such as biofortified crops. In a randomized controlled trial with farmers in Western Kenya, we implemented several extension treatments and...
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Prior research shows long-run productivity growth in agriculture is associated with increases in the stock of public … productivity in agriculture. Bibliographic information identifies the nature and degree to which firms use public agricultural …
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and extension to address the numerous challenges along the pathway from agriculture production and distribution to …
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, agriculture-nutrition linkages have received a lot of attention in recent years. Researchers have analysed the link between the … third agriculture-nutrition link has been largely neglected in recent years: the impact of how food is produced on human … outcomes substantially and that this neglected agriculture-nutrition linkage deserves more scientific and political attention …
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In face of increased efforts to mitigate climate change, biofuels may be included in reduction plans forgreenhouse gas emissions. Feedstock for first generation biofuels and food crops both use arable land andmay compete for it. Also, fuel is an input for the production and transport of food....
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How are new opportunities to create and share information shaping the digital transformation of the agriculture and … global agriculture and food value chain, and looks at how changes brought about by digital technologies can influence who …, it is not only changes in the agriculture and food sector from digital technologies that matters, but also the digital …
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