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Monitoring agricultural productivity for sustainable production and R&D planning

Laborde Debucquet, David; Piñeiro, Valeria - 2018

Argentina's G20 presidency has emphasized the needs to improve soil management and increase agricultural productivity in a sustainable way to achieve an inclusive and resilient food future. While increases in agricultural productivity improve economic welfare and can help address food security...

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Sustainable development of agriculture : theoretical aspects and their implications

Kociszewski, Karol - In: Economic and environmental studies : a journal for … 18 (2018) 3, pp. 1119-1134

The objective is to provide a systematization of concepts connected with sustainable development of agriculture (SDA …) as the basis for indication of directions of changes in Polish agriculture. The author applied descriptive and … agricultural production, which would bring positive and negative environmental consequences. The multifunctional agriculture cannot …

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Monitoring agricultural productivity for sustainable production and R&D planning

Laborde Debucquet, David; Piñeiro, Valeria - 2018

Argentina’s G20 presidency has emphasized the need to improve soil management and sustainably increase agricultural productivity to achieve an inclusive and resilient food future. While increased agricultural productivity can improve economic welfare and help address food security problems by...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011946855

On structural change, the social stress of a farming population, and the political economy of farm support

Stark, Oded; Fałkowski, Jan - 2018

A rationale for providing support to the farm sector in the course of economic development and structural change is a growing gap between the incomes of nonagricultural workers and the incomes of farmers. Drawing on a model that enables us to analyze the level of social stress experienced by...

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Myanmar's agriculture sector : unlocking the potential for inclusive growth

Raitzer, David A.; Wong, Larry C. Y.; Samson, Jindra … - 2015

Myanmar's agriculture sector offers substantial unexploited potential to underpin the country's inclusive economic …'s agriculture has key competitive advantages. At the same time, Myanmar's agricultural productivity trails its neighbors as a result …

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Enabling environment for agricultural growth and competitiveness : evaluation, indicators and indices

Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio; Orden, David R.; Kwieciński, … - 2014

based on four blocks with 40% of the weight on agriculture/rural factors and 20% each on broader economy-wide governance … agriculture’s enabling environment would help provide an important input into better policy decisions. …

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Cuba : agricultural transition and food security in a global perspective

Riera, Olivia; Swinnen, Johan F. M. - 2015

This paper reviews the situation in the agricultural sector and food security in Cuba and in particular the transformations that have (not) taken place since 1990. We compare the Cuban transition with transitions in other "transition countries" and show that Cuba does not fit easily in one of...

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Using Energy Resources to Diversify the Economy : Agricultural Price Distortions in Kazakhstan

Pomfret, Richard - 2014

shifted towards support for (or less discrimination against) agriculture, boosted by a billion-dollar Agriculture and Food …

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African Agricultural Mechanization : Myths, Realities and an Emerging Research Agenda

Daum, Thomas - 2019

African farm systems remain the least mechanized of all continents. There were substantial state-led efforts to promote agricultural mechanization during the 1960s and 1970s, but these efforts failed, which led to a subsequent neglect of mechanization, both in practice and in academia. In...

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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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