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The Challenge of Food Inflation
Subbarao, Duvvuri - eSocialSciences - 2011
The trends in food inflation over the past 60 years are given. Having thus set the context, the factors driving structural food inflation, which should give us a perspective of the underlying dynamics and the nature of the challenge are also brought out. The policy measures for addressing the...
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Case Study: Tax reform, income distribution and poverty in Brazil: an applied general equilibrium analysis
Filho, Joaquim B de Souza Ferreira; Santos, Carliton V dos - In: International Journal of Microsimulation 3 (2010) 1, pp. 114-117
taxes on food; reduction in taxes on intermediate inputs to agriculture. To asses the effects of both on income distribution …
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Energy Consumption of Rural Farming Households in Kwara State, Nigeria
Amolegbe, Khadijat Busola; Adewumi, Matthew Olaniyi - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2013
The main objective of this study was to understand the rural energy consumption of the farming households. The data used for the study were obtained through a four-stage sampling procedure which resulted in a sample size of 120 households. Logistic regression procedure was used to determine the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011207528
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Commercializing Agriculture in Africa: The Environmental, Health and Safety Implications and the Way Forward
Olowogbon, S.T.; Fakayode, S.B. - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2013
Commercialization of agriculture in is a worthy effort in attaining food sufficiency in Africa. However, this needed … agriculture and integration of environmental health impact assessments into African agriculture, research and development on … commercialization of agriculture, are workable solutions to the likely health, safety and environmental challenges from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011207601
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Impacts of Public, Private, and R&D Investments on Total Factor Productivity Growth in Tunisian Agriculture
Dhehibi, Boubaker; Telleria, Roberto; Aw-Hassan, Aden - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2013
The paper analyzes the patterns of productivity and economic growth in Tunisian agriculture during the period 1981 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011207616
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DYNAMIQUE DE LA COMPETITIVITE EXTERNE DE L’AGRICULTURE AU BENIN : ANALYSE PAR UNE APPROCHE DYNAMIQUE SYNTHETIQUE
Oloukoï, Laurent; Amoussouga Gero, Fulbert; … - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2013
Le présent papier calcul, dans un premier temps, un indicateur de compétitivité externe de l’agriculture au Bénin à … de compétitivité de l’agriculture béninoise. En effet, une forte croissance des taux d’intérêt réels au Bénin, en …
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Influence of marketing mix elements on the intention of sugarcane farmers in Thailand to use commercial tailor-made fertiliser
Hothongcum, Krichanont; Suwunnamek, Opal; … - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 11 (2015) 1, pp. 1-18
Tailor-made fertiliser (TMF) is a new practice in Thailand that aims to achieve a more efficient use of a fertiliser on cultivated soil. This study attempts to determine farmers' attitudes toward a marketing mix of TMF and to investigate factors influencing the farmers' intention to use TMF in...
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Revisiting the Global Food Architecture. Lessons from the 2008 Food Crisis
Christiaensen, L. - In: Competition and Regulation in Network Industries LIV (2009) 3, pp. 345-362
functioning and policymaking need to be addressed. First, governments should reinvest in agriculture with a focus on public goods …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010569219
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The Agricultural Foundation of the Seventeenth-Century English Oeconomy
Lowry, S. Todd - In: History of Political Economy 35 (2003) 5, pp. 74-100
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Build in Sustainable Development and They Will Come: A Vegetable Field of Dreams
Dyck, Bruno - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 7 (1994) 4, pp. 47-63
Agriculture (CSA) and the Seikatsu Club. The current agri‐food system protects the environment by regulating the use of …
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