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Land grabbing appears to be driven by a variety of factors that seem destined to expand in the long term. The aim of this paper is to highlight the behavior and the role of China (a net food importer country) and India (which is facing a problem of energy insecurity) in the current escalation of...
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The aim of this paper is to provide an Asian perspective on land investments with particular reference to the European position in terms of land acquisition. At first, the paper recalls the relevance that land holds as a distinct factor of production and consumption. Then, it investigates the...
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Energy security is a burning issue in a world where 1.4 billion people still have no access to electricity. This …
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over 10 percent growth rate, the Ethiopian economy has been one of the fastest growing economies in the world over the last … one and half decades. By any measure agriculture is the dominant economic sector in the country accounting for a sizeable …
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reserves, and their growing cost, and to a delicate relationship (and dependence) with a restricted number of world regions and … from the fraction of products, waste and residues from agriculture, forestry and related industries, as well as the …, having in mind the shortage of cereals in the world market. Where possible and opportune, the situation of Italy and of the …
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The article examines the food security implications of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture. It places the Agreement in …
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developing world. It chronicles the patterns of trade and production that contribute to this problem from the colonial period … International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization (WTO) exacerbate hunger and environmental … earnings needed to finance the import of food and other necessities to fluctuating world market prices for agricultural …
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argument supposes that agriculture is environmentally benign or even ameliorative. A more fearsome fallacy may not exist …. Agriculture is one of the most resource-depleting economic activities and deserves to be treated accordingly. The microecological … variation on agroecological reasoning favors improving agriculture's environmental performance by reducing farm sizes and …
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Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...
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