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We measure the impact of low cost transport by rail in Malawi on the dispersion of agricultural commodities prices across markets, by exploiting the quasi experimental design of the nearly total collapse of domestic trade by rail in January 2003, due to the destruction of a railway bridge at...
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U.S. retail food price increases in recent years may seem large in nominal terms, but after adjusting for inflation have been quite modest even after the change in U.S. biofuel policies in 2006. In contrast, increases in the real prices of corn, soybeans, wheat and rice received by U.S. farmers...
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Viele Studien zeigen, dass Miscanthus (MSC) im Vergleich zum klassischen Ackerbau ökonomisch vorteilhaft sein kann …
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. Growing consumer demand and underused pasture reserves suggest significant potential for growth. But production is fragmented … fodder, whilst need for supplements is lower amongst mobile meat producers with winter pasture. Amongst the latter, a class …
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Arguably the greatest challenge to contemporary research is to capture the inter-relatedness and complexity of the real world environment within models so at to better inform decision makers of the accurate and complete consequences of differing options. The paper presents an integrated model of...
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Protected areas are a cornerstone of forest conservation in developing countries. Yet we know little about their effects on forest cover change or the socioeconomic status of local communities, and even less about the relationship between these effects. This paper assesses whether 'win-win'...
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