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School meals as a market for smallholder agriculture : experimental evidence from Ghana

Gelli, Aulo; Masset, Edoardo; Adamba, Clement; … - 2021

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Prosperity in rural Africa? : insights into wealth, assets, and poverty from longitudinal studies in Tanzania

Brockington, Dan (ed.); Noe, Christine (ed.) - 2021

What does it mean to say that rural areas of Africa are poor? Many people insist that in rural African populations poverty is prevalent. This is either because the smallholder agricultural practices are unproductive or it is because economic policies have not protected and promoted African...

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Financial credit and expansion of the non-hydrocarbon sector in Gulf Cooperation Council countries

Al Kharusi, Sami; Gani, Azmat - In: International advances in economic research 28 (2022) 3/4, pp. 105-118

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Investigating preferences for soil-based ecosystem services

Bartkowski, Bartosz; Massenberg, Julian Richard; … - In: Q open : a journal of agricultural, climate, … 2 (2022) 2, pp. 1-21

Soil provides multiple benefits for human well-being that are largely invisible to most beneficiaries. Here, we present the results of a discrete choice experiment on the preferences of Germans for soil-based ecosystem services. In an attempt to reduce complexity for respondents, we express...

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Collectivization of smallholder farmers, strategic competition, and market performance : experiences from two selected villages of West Bengal, India

Bagchi, Niladri Sekhar; Mishra, Pulak; Behera, Bhagirath; … - In: Agribusiness : an international journal 38 (2022) 3, pp. 710-733

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Technical efficiency in production of major food grains in Punjab, Pakistan

Salam, Abdul; Hameed, Abdul - In: Asian development review : studies of Asian and pacific … 39 (2022) 2, pp. 201-222

Based on the 2016-2017 farm survey data, this study examines technical efficiency in the production of wheat, rice, and maize in Punjab province in Pakistan. Technical efficiency, under varying returns to scale, in wheat farming averaged 0.65; in rice, it averaged 0.74, and in the case of maize,...

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In the land of Orpheus : rural livelihoods and nature conservation in postsocialist Bulgaria

Cellarius, Barbara A. - 2004

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Evaluating Sustainable Food System Innovations: A Global Toolkit for Cities

Valette, Élodie (contributor); … - 2024

This book presents Urbal, an approach that applies impact pathway mapping to understand how food system innovations in cities, and their territories, change and impact food system sustainability. Around the world, people are finding innovative ways to make their food systems more sustainable....

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Long-term effects of historical inheritance customs on household formation and gender disparities

Süß, Karolin - 2023

This paper studies the effect of inheritance customs for agricultural land on household formation and gender disparities. Under partible inheritance, agricultural land is split equally among all siblings. Under impartible inheritance, only one descendant inherits the entire land. Using a spatial...

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Assessment of agricultural sustainability: Case study of Baltic States

Štreimikienė, Dalia; Mikalauskiene, Asta - In: Contemporary Economics 17 (2023) 2, pp. 128-141

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), sustainable agriculture must meet the needs of present and … systems need transition to become more sustainable. The use of renewables in agriculture allows to reduce energy costs and GHG … emissions and implement cyclic economy principles. Sustainability assessment of agriculture can be done by applying various sets …

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