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Agriculture Pricing in Development Countries : An Application to Pakistan

Coady, David P. - 2014

The range of and constraints on policy instruments available to the government when raising and distributing revenue can have important consequences for the efficiency and equity implications of pricing policy. The usual trade-off between equity and efficiency is magnified. We emphasize the...

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What Is the Future of Farming Within the Agri-Food Chain?

Bonny, Sylvie - 2022

Farming is the subject of frequent criticism as regards the environment, food quality and sustainability. Farmers, technical progress and policies often bear the brunt of accusations. However, the observed evolution has also been induced by economic determinants and by the position of...

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Food Security in Indonesia: Current Challenges and the Long-Run Outlook

Timmer, Peter - 2004

In the long run-- over the past four decades--improvements in food security in Indonesia have generally been driven by pro-poor economic growth and a successful Green Revolution, led by high-yielding rice varieties, massive investments in rural infrastructure, including irrigation, and ready...

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What is the Future of Farming Within the Agri-Food Chain?

Bonny, Sylvie - Économie Publique, Département Sciences Sociales, … - 2006

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Alert at Maradi: preventing food crisis using price signals

BONJEAN, Catherine ARAUJO; ARAUJO, Claudio; BRUNELIN, … - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement … - 2010

National early warning systems of Sahelian countries are mainly based on biophysics models to predict agricultural production shortages and prevent food crisis. The objective of this paper is to show that cereal market prices also bring useful information on future food availability that could...

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Singh, Krishna M. - 2015

revolution in India and is becoming popular once again because of its potential to save water and labor. However, high weed …

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Decentralized seed services in Africa : an assessment of Tanzania and Uganda

Waithaka, Michael; Mugoya, Mainza; Mabaya, Edward; … - 2021

The overall goal of decentralizing seed services is to increase the availability and accessibility of quality seed to … farmers. The governments of Uganda and Tanzania have endeavoured to enhance access to improved seed for smallholder farmers … players in the seed sector in general. In Uganda, the number of community seed banks (CSBs) has increased from one to five …

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Adoption of improved groundnut seed and its impact on rural households' welfare in Eastern Ethiopia

Ahmed, Musa H.; Mesfin, Hiwot M.; Abady, Seltene; … - In: Cogent economics & finance 4 (2016) 1, pp. 1-18

This study has evaluated the impact of adoption of improved groundnut seed on the well-being of the farmers of Eastern …

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The joint impact of improved maize seeds on productivity and efficiency : implications for policy

Abro, Zewdu Ayalew; Legesse Debela, Bethelhem; Kassie, … - 2019

Productivity and efficiency are key performance indicators of improved seeds. Efficiency differences explain part of the variation in productivity. Improved seeds may affect efficiency because farmers often do not apply inputs at optimum. Improved seeds therefore not only directly affect...

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The supply chain for seed in Uganda : where does it all go wrong?

Barriga, Alicia; Fiala, Nathan - 2018

, including wholesalers, retailers and major company outlets. Second, we do not find evidence of serious seed faking or … adulteration. In fact, we find high levels of seed purity across all levels of the supply chain. Quality appears to be the main …

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