Paper presented at the International Conference of 'Entrepreneurship and Land and Rural Development' Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of AbouBekr BELKAID TLEMCEN Tlemcen, Algeria, 3-4 December 2008

Paper presented at the IAMO Forum 2004 “The role of agriculture in Central and Eastern European rural development: Engine of change or social buffer?” 4 – 6 November 2004, Halle (Saale), Germany

Paper presented at the UNU-WIDER (United Nations University – World Institute for Development Economics Research) Project Conference on African Development: Myths and Realities Accra, Ghana, 10-11 December 2009

This paper introduces new data on climatic conditions to empirical tests of growth theories. We find that, since 1960, temperate countries have converged towards high levels of income while tropical nations have converged towards various income levels associated with economic scale and the...

Arid Agriculture University, Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

The reorientation ocurred in the socioeconomic, politic and institutional development of the Latin American and Caribbean countries, since 80's decade, provoke significant transformations in the regional rural spaces. The socioeconomic bipolarization is one of the most remarkable phenomena in...

This paper was produced for the FAO Expert Meeting on How to Feed the World in 2050 (Rome, 24-26 June 2009).

Paper presented at the International Conference on the Microbial Commons, Ghent, Belgium, June 12-13th, 2009

Delays in payment adversely affect the contract seed production program for other field crops (OFC) conducted by the Department of Agriculture (DOA) Sri Lanka. This study focuses on assessing the financial viability of advancing payments for contract farmers who produces groundnut (Arachis...

MSc Banking and Finance, Queen Mary University of London, School of Economics and Finance. Supervisor: Dario Maimone Ansaldo Patti