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Determinants of transport costs: Are they uniform across countries?

Schürenberg-Frosch, Hannah - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

The author shows with pooled OLS estimations based on transport margins from international social accounting data that investments in improved road infrastructure have the potential to significantly reduce transport costs. However, this result can only be clearly confirmed for industrial...

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Proceedings of the International Conference and Young Researchers' Forum: 'Natural resource use in Central Asia: institutional challenges and the contribution of capacity building'...

Ahmed, Mirza Nomman; Pawlowski, Ira - Zentrum für internationale Entwicklungs- und … - 2013

. BREUER, G. STULINA, V. DUKHOVNY, H.-G. FREDE: Estimation of phreatic evaporation in irrigation agriculture using stable … Agriculture and Trade: A Case Study of Uzbekistan ... 121 / ELIZA ZHUNUSOVA: Policy-induced Distortions to Farmer Incentives and … ... 185 / SHAVKAT HASANOV AND FARHOD AHROROV: Uzbekistan’s Agriculture- Status Quo, Challenges and Policy Suggestions ... 189 …

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Weather shocks and English wheat yields, 1690-1871

Brunt, Liam - Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2015

We estimate a time series model of weather shocks on English wheat yields for the early nineteenth century and use it to predict weather effects on yield levels from 1697 to 1871. This reveals that yields in the 1690s were depressed by unusually poor weather; and those in the late 1850s were...

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Mechanization outsourcing clusters and division of labor in Chinese agriculture:

Zhang, Xiaobo; Yang, Jin; Reardon, Thomas Anthony - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015

Most of the poor in the developing countries are smallholder farmers. Improving their productivity is essential for reducing poverty. Despite small landholdings, a high degree of land fragmentation, and rising labor costs, agricultural production in China has steadily increased. If one treats...

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Value chains and nutrition: A framework to support the identification, design, and evaluation of interventions:

Gelli, Aulo; Hawkes, Corinna; Donovan, Jason; Harris, Jody - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015

In this paper we explore how a value chain framework can inform the design of interventions for achieving improved nutrition. Conceptually, there are three main channels for value chains to improve nutrition: (1) through increased consumption of nutritious foods (a demand side pathway); or (2)...

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Mathematical Programming Models to Increase Land and Water Use Efficiency in Semi-arid NE-Brazil

Hagel, Heinrich; Hoffmann, Christa; Doluschitz, Reiner - In: International Journal on Food System Dynamics 05 (2014) 4

Construction of the Itaparica dam and reservoir induced changes in the agricultural production systems of the Itaparica micro-region, at the lower-middle São Francisco river basin. Extensive traditional systems were replaced by e.g. irrigated fruit production. However, over twenty years after...

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Supply Response and Investment in Agriculture in Andhra Pradesh

Pandey, Lalmani; Rao, P. Parthasarathy; Birthal, P.S.; … - In: Asian Journal of Agriculture and Development 09, 2

years from Andhra Pradesh. It confirms the low, short-run aggregate output supply elasticity of Indian agriculture as found …, and farm investment of labor and capital in agriculture have not changed over the years. The empirical estimates of … that public investment in infrastructure and financial institutions respond to the agriculture potential and agro …

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Agricultural Income Determinants among Smallholder Farmers: Case of Northern Part of Burundi

Nzabakenga, Alfred; Feng, Luo Xiao; Yaqin, He - In: Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development 03 (2013) 11

About 90 percent of Burundi population depends on agriculture for their livelihoods. Agriculture employs the majority …

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The Concept of Withholding Period and Pesticide Residue in Grain Storage

Adegbola, J.A.; Anugwom, U.D.; Awagu, F.; Adum, E.A. - In: Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development 02 (2012) 04

This review focuses on pesticides, their unquantifiable benefits to agriculture, pesticide residue, maximum pesticide …

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Factors Affecting Agricultural Sustainability–ACase Study of Hail Region, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Asiry, Khalid A.; Hassan, Sami Saeed M.; AlRashidi, Monif M. - In: Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development 03 (2013) 10

Availability of data on agricultural activities and production are essential for an appropriate socio-economic planning and sustainability. This study was conducted using a questionnaire that was randomly distributed to farmers to identify some features of the agricultural activities in Hail...

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