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At present, grain stocks have been demonstrating an anomalous upward movement pattern. After the start of mass harvesting, the risk of overstocking and grain prices for producers sliding below a comfortable level has been high. In this connection, urgent measures preventive are required to...
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Motivated by the conclusions from various modelling studies, modifications to the bioenergy sector regulations are under way in Europe and in the USA to account for emissions from indirect land-use change (ILUC). Despite their influence on the policy-making, evaluations of the capacity of...
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Este trabajo analiza, a través del enfoque de políticas públicas, el programa "Agro, Ingreso Seguro" -AIS-, eje clave de la política agropecuaria colombiana de finales de la década del 2000. Desde dicho enfoque se puede observar que AIS respondía a problemas sociales reales y seguía un...
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large part to consecutive food and economic crises. Over ninety-eight percent of these individuals live in the developing … world. Ironically, a great majority are involved in food production as small-scale independent food producers or … food system. This Comment explores both the urgency and paucity of the “right to food” as a legal and normative framework …
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The lowering of import duties on pork from August 2012 following Russia’s accession to the WTO resulted in the decrease of prices for this product and the decline of profitability of domes?? c pig production. Combined with a whole set of other factors this dragged the problems of the sector...
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At present about 4% of Russia’s GDP is generated in agriculture; however, the sector still accounts for 9.7% of the total number of employed in domestic economy with 26% of the country’s population living in rural areas. The latter indicator has remained actually unchanged throughout the 10...
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of the three broad levels of organization of the soil food web: they are plant litter transformers or ecosystem engineers …
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optimizing biochar application to various crop yields is necessary if it is to gain widespread acceptance as a soil amendment. …
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The March 11, 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear plant accident have had immense impacts on Japanese agri-food sector … agriculture, food industries and consumers as well as factors for persistence of negative impacts, and longer-term impacts on … Fukushima nuclear disaster on the Japanese agriculture and food sector. Nearly four years after the triple disaster, it gives …
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The past 25 years has seen extraordinary growth in global demand for the myriad products obtained from the processing of the oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) crop. Most of the land conversion required to grow the oil palm crop has occurred in Southeast Asia, predominantly in Indonesia and Malaysia....
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