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Estimating English Wheat Production in the Industrial Revolution

Brunt, Liam - Economics Group, Nuffield College, University of Oxford - 1999

Wheat was the single most important product of the British economy during the Industrial Revolution, being both the largest component of national income and the primary determinant of caloric intake. This paper offers new estimates of annual wheat production during industrialisation. Whereas...

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Productivity Growth in Latin America during the Twentieth Century

Astorga, Pablo; Bergés, Ame R.; Fitzgerald, Valpy - Economics Group, Nuffield College, University of Oxford - 2003

increased levels of capital per worker during industrialization on the one hand; and with both out-migration from agriculture …

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Agricultural productivity and its determinants: revisiting international experiences

Bravo-Ortega, Claudio; Lederman, Daniel - In: Estudios de Economia 31, 2 Year 2004, pp. 133-163

growth in agriculture’s total factor productivity (TFP) for a panel of countries using a translog-production function. In …

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Stability issues in policy analysis

Rausser, Gordon C. - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 1988

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How to Carry Out Land Consolidation: an International Comparison.

Zhou, J.-M. - Department of Economics, European University Institute - 1999

Based on a mixed economy of private ownership of farmland and public ownership of infrastructure, dispersed parcels of farms could be consolidated through exchange of private ownership and location into compact land units.

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Additional work, family agriculture, and the birth of a first or a second child in Russia at the beginning of the 1990s

Bühler, Christoph - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2003

measures (second jobs, part-time self-employment, and part-time family agriculture) and the probability to have a first or a …

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Why did the First Farmers Toil? Human Metabolism and the Origins of Agriculture

Weisdorf, Jacob - Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet - 2008

subsistence than their foraging predecessors. This makes the adoption of agriculture in the Stone Age one of the major curiosities … adoption of agriculture. It demonstrates how the additional output that farming offered could have lured people into … agriculture, but that subsequent population increase would eventually have swallowed up its benefits, forcing early farmers into …

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Assessing the role of voluntary environmental management arrangements in agriculture: an Australian perspective

Gunningham, Neil - In: International Journal of Agricultural Resources, … 6 (2007) 3, pp. 296-315

the response of Australian agriculture to deficiencies in 'traditional' environmental management. How can the environment …

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Agricultural research policy framework for improved livelihoods security in crop-livestock production systems

Rao, N.H. - In: International Journal of Agricultural Resources, … 5 (2006) 1, pp. 75-89

Concerns for sustainable development and poverty alleviation are forcing public agricultural research systems to focus on improving livelihoods security. Crop-livestock production systems are central to the livelihood security of the rural poor in India and some other countries of the tropics....

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S’installer comme agricultrice : sur la socialisation et la formation sexuée en agriculture

Rieu, Annie; Dahache, Sabrina - In: Review of Agricultural and Environmental Studies - … 88 (2008) 3, pp. 71-94

’installation en agriculture. Si la profession agricole s’est progressivement ouverte aux filles, les stratégies de reproduction des …

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