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, especially the financial and institutional ones. In Poland agriculture is the sector where the changes are strongly conditioned … by the cultural background. Increasingly, the transformation of agriculture is broadly referred to the concept of … materials), has become very popular.The paper presents The Farmers’ Calendar – a source of knowledge about agriculture …
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Globally, agriculture is facing an unprecedented set of pressures over the coming decades. After a brief review of …€™ model of intensive agriculture freeing up land for nature conservation objectives; or adopt a ‘land sharing’ approach …, lowland and upland can all form part of the mix. Government, scientists and land managers must focus on addressing the …
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Recent events, such as the 2008 food price crisis, have focussed global attention on the agriculture and food sectors … – Economic, Political, and Natural Resources – this paper explores where power currently lies in world agriculture … develop a simple ‘global power index’. The power index indicates that the US and the EU dominate world agriculture in …
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The paper is of descriptive character and is based on literature review. It reviews the concept of homo economicus and homo politicus in the history of economic thought and tries to discover their characteristics in homo agricola. As demonstrated, one component of homo agricola can be of...
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agriculture practise and on the exchange of the knowledge. Agricultural advisory services claim various effects in the country … assumes that the nexus of knowledge and innovation in Tajik agriculture is largely dependent on the decision-making of local …
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This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009370951
This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a signi.cant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009370952
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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taxes on food; reduction in taxes on intermediate inputs to agriculture. To asses the effects of both on income distribution …
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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