The commonly touted solution to achieve food security has always been articulated as achieving self-sufficiency in rice … the numbers, the picture it paints is not pretty. Achieving rice self-sufficiency comes with a price, and let us take a …

to promote value chain competiveness at the regional level). The case of the rice value chain in Tolima (Colombia …' (Kaplinsky and Morris 2000). There is a directed network form of coordination of the rice value chain. Historically there had … been developed systems of formal and informal agreements between producers and rice threshing entrepreneurs on subjects …

several market distortions and mounting fiscal costs. Wheat and rice supply strongly and significantly respond to the minimum … rice they turned out to be insignificant. Rice consumption turned out to be strongly influenced by distribution of … subsidised rice, which can be linked to high coverage and subsidy under the public distribution system (PDS). In the case of …

This paper investigates the international quarterly prices of wheat and rice from 1983(1) to 2012(4). The empirical …, seasonal and irregular components. The empirical results indicate that wheat prices present cyclical behavior while rice prices … and rice like two distinct commodities that require country specific and commodity specific policy measures. Finally, the …

This study assessed the determinants of intensity of adoption of Improved Rice Varieties (IRVs) and the effect of … consists of crosssectional data of 600 rice farmers selected randomly from three notable rice producing States in Nigeria. The … variables that positively and significantly influenced the intensity of IRVs adoption include income from rice production …

greenhouse gas emissions from two practices, the cultivation of paddy rice and the growth in livestock production, in 15 … 1970 to 2020, out-of-sample projections show that business-as-usual emissions from rice production and animal waste will …

This study assesses the impact of increased fertilizer prices under different scenarios on rice production, consumption …, trade and prices. Using a global rice model based on a partial equilibrium framework, the simulation results show that a 30 …% to 100% increase in fertilizer prices would reduce rice yields by 0.45% to 1.33%, but increase world rice prices by 7% to …