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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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Mechanization in African agriculture : a continental overview on patterns and dynamics
Kirui, Oliver K.; Braun, Joachim von - 2018
This study provides an overview on the patterns and dynamics of mechanization in African agriculture over the 10 year period (2005-2014). Farm level and value chain related mechanization are considered. This study looks in to pattern of agricultural mechanization along the entire value chain...
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Stakeholder Analysis as a Tool for Systems Approach Research in HRD
Yawson, Robert M.; Greiman, Bradley - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The world is experiencing significant, largely economic and sociotechnical, induced change. These induced changes are meaningful with a function of people taking collective actions around common beliefs. These changes are more than jargon, cliché and hyperbole, and they are effecting major...
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Profitable Use of SCF in a Policy Context : the Case of Rice Stockholding in the Philippines
Reyes, Celia M.; Mina, Christian D. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
This paper documents the activities of the National Food Authority (NFA), particularly on rice marketing, in realizing its mandates of buying high and selling low. Because the Philippine agriculture is greatly affected by extreme climate events such as El Nio and La Nia, this paper highlights...
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HIGHER BORO PRODUCTION FOR FOOD SECURITY : AN INTEGRATED STRATEGY
Deb, Uttam; Khaled, Nafisa; Bairagi, Subir Kanti; Amin, … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
Distribution System (PFDS). This paper attempts to arouse interest for an integrated strategy for food security through higher Boro … and distribution of foodgrains to ensure social protection and social safety net. …
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Modelling Nitrogen Losses from Sheep Grazing Systems with Different Spatial Distributions of Excreta
Bell, Matthew J.; Cullen, Brendan R.; Johnson, Ian R.; … - In: Agriculture 2 (2012) 4, pp. 282-294
The aim of this study was to assess the effect that the randomised versus even distribution of excreta (dung and urine … distribution of excreta at stocking densities up to 1200 sheep/ha (equivalent to an annual stocking rate of 20 DSE/ha). But at … higher stock densities, when N loads are high, the spatial distribution of excreta is important and models need to explicitly …
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Regularização fundiária no Brasil: Avanços e desafios
Gómez, Raúl V.; Vieira Filho, José Eustáquio Ribeiro - 2023
A vast economic literature argues that well-defined property rights over land use can be associated with increases in efficiency in the use of scarce resources. In December 2020, the Brazilian government launched the Titula Brasil program, which aims to support and facilitate the land...
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Economic Competitiveness and the Sudanese Agricultural Commodities
Mohamed, Issam A.W. - 2011
Since independence in 1956, the structure of domestic production and export sectors, the level of capacities to absorb economic shocks, and the historically market-oriented nature of the economy, when taken collectively, they constitutes distinguishing characteristics of Sudan economy at...
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Farewell to Agriculture? Productivity Trends and the Competitiveness of Agriculture in Central Asia
Gharleghi, Behrooz - 2018
Agricultural productivity in the Central Asian republics of the USSR stopped growing from the late 1970s and declined in the 1990s when the transition to the market occurred. As a result, most agricultural goods were uncompetitive on the both the domestic market and the world market, and the...
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Agricultural Development and Crop Output in Bihar - A Decomposition Analysis
Kumari, Priyanka - 2019
The present investigation has been carried out to analyze the agricultural output growth and contribution of different components to the output growth in the state of Bihar. Results of the analysis depicted mixed trend in growth rates of area under different crops in the state. The production...
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