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One of the common strategies in rural development programmes is to support the adoption of new on-farm activities. The rationale behind this is that farm diversification is a way to assure an appropriate level of income for the farmers. Through interviews with 49 relatively small farmers, the...
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partnerships to expand mutual learning with other developing member countries (DMCs) in key sectors such as agriculture, natural … to promote modern agriculture, agricultural value chain and logistics system development, bridging of agricultural …
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Agriculture in China has experienced a compelling growth in the early 1980s, a buoyant upbeat in the early 1990s, and … addressed. The Chinese government is now reemphasizing agriculture and rural develop-ment under its New Rural Campaign with the …
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the first phase, in the weakening of the developmental performances in agriculture. Such tendencies widened the gap … rural economy is determined by the importance of agriculture in the rural economy, which is substantial in the West Balkan …
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This paper outlines the development and use of a policy model for multifunctional agriculture and rural development … Agriculture and Rural Development).. It sets the discourse on multifunctional agriculture in the context of what OECD calls the … ‘New Rural Paradigm’, and explores the ways in which both market and non-market ‘functions’ of agriculture and farm …
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Contributed articles presented at the inception meeting of Economic Division in the Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance in collaboration with Asian Development Bank in New Delhi on 2-3 September 2003 on agricultural policy programmes in India supported by ADB furthered through...
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recent gains in poverty reduction. The impact of higher food prices is severe—an additional 112 million people could have … escaped poverty in Asia during the late 2000s if food prices had not increased during the period. Thus, long- and shortterm … strategies are needed to ensure food security and bolster efforts at poverty reduction. Policies to enhance food security that …
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household income and poverty. Unlike most impact studies, we look beyond mean income and poverty effects and evaluate impact … heterogeneity. We find that cooperatives are exclusive to some extent but effective in increasing income and reducing poverty …
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This paper presents the results of a survey about policy preferences collected from agricultural economists at an EAAE Seminar on rural development policy experiences. It documents the diversity in rural development problems and favored tactics across Europe.
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