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Worsening Food Crisis in Nigeria : A Discourse on Bail-Out Options

Nwachukwu, Ifeanyi Ndubuto - 2015

Food crises triggered by high prices had been experienced in agricultural markets in the past. However, the current state of agricultural markets has raised a lot of concerns to policy makers, media, the public and all stakeholders. This is against the background of the fact that only a selected...

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Investing sustainably in African livestock development : opportunities and trade-offs

Seré, Carlos - 2020

The production and consumption of animal source foods is central to the ongoing discussion of global food systems. The objectives of this report are first to describe the patterns and changing structures of the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) livestock sector and secondly to explore innovations that...

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Skill development in Indian agriculture and food processing sectors : a scoping exercise

Ganguly, Kavery; Gulati, Ashok; Braun, Joachim von - 2019

The agriculture and food sector in India employ a significant proportion (about 44 percent) of the workforce, the … institutions that are operational in this context of skill formation in India, with a focus on the agriculture and food sector. It … related to the agriculture and food sector in particular. In terms of policy, skill development has been accorded high …

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Food versus fuel : an updated and expanded evidence

Filip, Ondrej; Janda, Karel; Kristoufek, Ladislav; … - 2017

This paper replicates and extends the study of Zhang et al. (2010): „Food versus fuel: What do prices tell us?" Energy Policy 38, pp. 445-451. We confirm the findings of the original paper that there was only a weak relationship between ethanol and food commodities in the period between March...

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Skill Development in Indian Agriculture and Food Processing Sectors : A Scoping Exercise

Ganguly, Kavery - 2019

The agriculture and food ... …

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The Nutritional Requirements of Phytophagous Insects : Why do Insects Feed on Plants?

Offor, Emeka - 2010

Observations on phytophagous (plant-eating) insects showed that what the insect eats and how much it eats largely determines its economic importance. The food ingested and digested by the insect must fulfil its nutritional requirements for normal growth and development to occur. These...

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Agriculture Development and Food Security Policy in Eritrea - An Analysis

Rena, Ravinder - 2015

The main economic activity of the people of Eritrea is agriculture: crop production and livestock herding. Agriculture … mainly comprises mixed farming and some commercial concessions. Most agriculture is rain-fed. The main rain-fed crops are … assess the agriculture development and food policy in the country. Furthermore, the paper captures the available food …

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Towards an APEC Food System

Anderson, Kym - 2000

heavily on agriculture for their livelihood. With this in mind, the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) proposed in …

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Biofuels and Food Security : Micro-Evidence from Ethiopia

Negash, Martha; Swinnen, Johan F. M. - 2015

This paper provides microeconomic evidence on food security impacts of privately organized biofuel outgrower schemes in Ethiopia. We conducted a household and community level survey and evaluated the impact of castor bean farming. We use endogenous switching regressions to analyze the impact on...

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Public Trust and Support for Biotechnology : Lessons for Post-Market Surveillance of GM Foods

James, Jr., Harvey S. - 2013

The purposes of this paper are to examine how public trust affects public support for biotechnology and genetically modified (GM) foods and to assess how an understanding of the determinants of public trust impact post-market surveillance of GM foods. To this end, a model of trust is developed...

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