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Prospects of the farming sector and rural development in view of food security: the case of the Russian Federation
Uzun, Vassily; Saraikin, Valery; Gataulina, Ekaterina; … - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2014
As the recent situation on world food markets has been increasingly volatile and has been associated with relatively higher food prices, contributing to demonstrations and riots across the world, Russia's agriculture has attracted much attention from economists, experts and policy-makers because...
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Ukraine’s agriculture: potential for expanding grain supply. Economic and institutional challenges.
Acs, Szvetlana; Borodina, Oleksandra; Paloma, Sergio Gomez y - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2013
Ukraine is one of the few countries in the world that is in a position to significantly increase grain net exports, due to its strategic location and agro-ecological potential of its soils. The grain production potential of Ukraine depends on the two main factors: land area cultivated and yield....
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EU Island Farming and the Labelling of its Products
Santini, Fabien; Guri, Fatmir; Aubard, Audrey; … - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2014
Farming in the islands of the European Union faces specific challenges due to isolation and small size, which justify specific policy tools in terms of structural and regional polices. The question whether the output of island farming (island agricultural and food products) is of such a specific...
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Modelling the Effects of the EU Common Agricultural Policy
Costa, Catherine; Osborne, Michelle; Zhang, Xiao-guang; … - Productivity Commission, Government of Australia - 2009
impacts of the CAP are evaluated using the GTAP model. According to the modelling results, the effects of the CAP include … these modelling results apply. The estimates are sensitive to parameter choices, specific model features, and the structure … of the database. In addition, the modelling does not capture some aspects of the CAP including the effects of cross …
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Towards More Sustainable Food Systems
Kusch-Brandt, Sigrid (contributor) - 2023
Food systems are under increasing pressure. They must meet the food requirements of a growing world population, and socio-economic changes also influence the type of foods which are under demand. At the same time, food systems are a major contributor to global environmental change, and...
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Women as extension advisors
Adebayo, Johnson A.; Worth, Steven H. - In: Research in globalization 5 (2022), pp. 1-7
Extension plays very significant roles in enhancing agricultural production and community development initiatives in South Africa. However, sustainable agriculture, rural livelihood sustainability and food insecurity at household level are still of great concern and continue to be substantial...
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Ländliche Entwicklungspolitik ab 2014: Eine Bewertung der Verordnungsvorschläge der Europäischen Kommission vom Oktober 2011
Grajewski, Regina (contributor) - 2011
Im Oktober 2011 hat die Europäische Kommission ihre Legislativvorschläge für die Gemeinsame Agrarpolitik (GAP) und die Strukturpolitik für die Finanzperiode 2014 bis 2020 veröffentlicht. Der vorliegende Arbeitsbericht gibt einen Überblick über die relevanten Verordnungsentwürfe und eine...
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Ländliche Entwicklungspolitik ab 2014: Eine Bewertung der Verordnungsvorschläge der Europäischen Kommission vom Oktober 2011
Grajewski, Regina - Bundesforschungsinstitut für Lädliche Räume, Wald … - 2011
Im Oktober 2011 hat die Europäische Kommission ihre Legislativvorschläge für die Gemeinsame Agrarpolitik (GAP) und die Strukturpolitik für die Finanzperiode 2014 bis 2020 veröffentlicht. Der vorliegende Arbeitsbericht gibt einen Überblick über die relevanten Verordnungsentwürfe und eine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009385884
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The on-going CAP-reform – incentive for a shift towards rural development activities?
Dax, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The paper is based on the findings of a 2 year, EU-wide project on the territorial impacts of the CAP (ESPON project 2.1.3). It particularly focuses on the territorial impact of the different components of CAP and assesses the changes towards rural development policy. The results presented are...
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French and European agricultural development: an historical misinterpretation? (In French)
CORADE, Nathalie; DEL'HOMME, Bernard; ROCA, Pierre-JEAN - Groupement de Recherches Économiques et Sociales (GRES) - 2005
While accused for wrong ways he has leaded (North/South imbalance, environmental troubles, food crisis, rural desertification…), agricultural development has lost credibility, and with him public policies linked. With an historical point of view, we attempt in this paper to show that fifty...
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