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Forage-livestock policies designed to improve livelihoods in Western China: a critical review

Brown, Colin; Waldron, Scott; Yuman, Liu; Longworth, John - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 1 (2009) 4, pp. 367-381

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show how the promotion of integrated forage/ruminant-livestock industries forms a key plank in efforts to improve rural household livelihoods in Western China. Design/methodology/approach – The paper critiques how this industry development has...

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Weather risk and the viability of weather insurance in China's Gansu, Shaanxi, and Henan provinces

Kong, Calum G. Turvey Rong - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 2 (2010) 1, pp. 5-24

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate weather risks facing Chinese farmers, and to determine whether farmers would have a preference for weather insurance over other types of agricultural insurance. Design/methodology/approach – The data are based on 1,564 farm households...

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Agriculture and economic growth in Tunisia

Chebbi, Houssem Eddine - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 2 (2010) 1, pp. 63-78

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the role of agriculture in economic growth and its interactions with … paid to investigate non-causality between agriculture and other economic sectors. Findings – Empirical results suggest that … analysis of intersector growth. However, in the short run, agriculture in Tunisia seems to have a partial role as a driving …

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Estimating confidence intervals for technical efficiency of rainfed rice farming system in Nigeria

Ojo, K. Ogundari T.T. Amos S.O. - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 2 (2010) 1, pp. 107-118

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the technical efficiency (TE) of the rainfed rice farming system in Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach – Special attention is directed to the construction of confidence interval (CI) for individual efficiency estimates using stochastic...

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A multi-regional representation of China's agricultural sectors

Horridge, Glyn Wittwer Mark - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 1 (2009) 4, pp. 420-434

agriculture in China. Unlike the national input-output table published by the National Bureau of Statistics, the master database …, the paper contains an application to agriculture: it examines the impacts of productivity growth in different agricultural … policy issues concerning agriculture in China. …

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Agricultural land tax and farm-level land-use changes and output supply response

Olubode-Awosola, Femi - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 2 (2010) 1, pp. 79-93

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to land redistribution policy which is presently not only one of the most defining political and development issues, but also perhaps the most difficult in South Africa. Design/methodology/approach – The paper develops a programming model...

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Australian Pigmeat Industry

Commission, Productivity - Productivity Commission, Government of Australia

The Productivity Commission’s inquiry report into the ‘Australian Pigmeat Industry’, was released on 16 August 2005. The Commission was asked to examine the competitive situation and outlook for the pigmeat industry in Australia. It found that while the pig producing and processing sectors...

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Annual Review of Regulatory Burdens on Business: Primary Sector

Commission, Productivity - Productivity Commission, Government of Australia

The Productivity Commission’s report on regulatory burdens on the primary sector identifies a number of ways to reduce unnecessary burdens on farmers and miners and other primary sector producers arising from Commonwealth regulations. This report is the first of a five year cycle of reports...

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Rural Water Use and the Environment: The Role of Market Mechanisms

Commission, Productivity - Productivity Commission, Government of Australia

The Productivity Commission released its final research report into ‘Rural Water Use and the Environment: The Role of Market Mechanisms’ in August 2006. The report indicates that there is scope for markets to play a greater role in improving the efficient use of water, including for...

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A Ricardian analysis of the impact of climate change on African cropland

Kurukulasuriya, Pradeep; Mendelsohn, Robert - In: African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 02 (2008) 1

This study examines the impact of climate change on cropland in Africa, using a Ricardian cross-sectional approach. Relying on farm data from an 11-country survey of over 9500 farmers, annual net revenue is regressed on climate and other variables. The study confirms that current climate affects...

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