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Agri-Environmental Management During EU Integration of Bulgaria

Bachev, Hrabrin - 2012

challenges in Bulgarian agriculture, and suggests recommendations for improvement of public policies for effective environmental … analyzing the eco-management in agriculture. Second, it presents the evolutions of diverse forms of eco-management during post …-communist transition and EU integration of Bulgarian agriculture, and analyzes their impact(s) on agents' behaviour and efficiency. Third …

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Coping strategies in post-war rural Mozambique

Brück, Tilman - 2003

This paper analyses post-war coping strategies by farm households in developing countries. The analysis is based on a portfolio model of activity choices in war-affected rural Sub-Saharan Africa. A case study using farm household survey data estimates the determinants of agricultural coping...

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Gender divide in agricultural productivity in Mozambique

Morgado, João; Salvucci, Vincenzo - 2016

In this study we analyze the gender gap in agricultural productivity in Mozambique applying the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition approach on data from four agricultural surveys between 2002 and 2012. We find that female-headed households are on average substantially less productive (about 20 per...

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On the choice of farm management practices after the reform of the common agricultural policy in 2003

Schmid, Erwin; Sinabell, Franz - 2004

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) was fundamentally reformed in 2003. From 2005 on, farmers will receive decoupled income support payments instead of production premiums if basic standards for environment, food safety, animal health and welfare are met. Farmers will likely adjust production...

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Farm Productivity and Market Structure. Evidence From Cotton Reforms in Zambia

Brambilla, Irene; Porto, Guido G. - 2005

This paper investigates the impacts of cotton marketing reforms on farm productivity, a key element for poverty …

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Rural Policies, Price Change and Poverty in Tanzania: an Agricultural Household Model-Based Assessment

Tiberti, Luca; Tiberti, Marco - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2012

Exogenous shocks to farmers’ consumption, production and labour market decisions are rarely considered accurately. For farm households, under labour market imperfections, such decisions are often interlinked. This calls for non-separable agricultural household models. According to this...

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Can Crop Purchase Programs Reduce Poverty and Improve Welfare in Rural Communities? Evidence from the Food Reserve Agency in Zambia

Fung, Winnie; Liverpool-Tasie, Saweda; Mason, Nicole; … - 2015

higher levels of poverty. …

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The Impact of Rising Food Prices on the Poor

Zezza, Alberto; Davis, Benjamin; Azzarri, Carlo; … - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2008

This paper analyzes the household level impact of an increase in price of major tradable staple foods in a cross section of developing countries, using nationally representative household surveys. We find that, in the short term, poorer households and households with limited asset endowments and...

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Production Efficiency and Agricultural Technologies in the Ethiopian Agriculture

Mariam, Yohannes; Coffin, Garth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993

Stochastic frontier production function analysis was performed to examine relative crop and milk production efficiency among peasants in Ada and Selale districts of the Central highlands of Ethiopia. The results indicate that Ada farmers exhibit relatively higher efficiency scores in cereal...

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Natural resources conservation management and strategies in agriculture

Bachev, Hrabrin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

natural resources in agriculture. First, it incorporates an interdisciplinary approach (combining Economics, Organization, Law … management and strategies in agriculture including: specification of specific “managerial needs” and spectrum of feasible … agriculture during post-communist transformation and EU integration (institutional, market, private, and public), and evaluates …

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