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Identifier et limiter les risques des interventions agricoles sur la nutrition

Dury, S.; Alpha, A.; Bichard, A. - Unité Mixte de Recherche Marchés, Organisations, … - 2014

Agricultural development status impact individual nutrition through food, health and care practices. Many recent … outcomes on nutrition. We explore those potential negative outcomes based on a review of scientific papers and institutional … agricole affectent la nutrition des individus via l’alimentation, la santé et les pratiques de soin. Les chemins d’impact sont …

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What risks do agricultural interventions entail for nutrition?

Dury, S.; Alpha, A.; Bichard, A. - Unité Mixte de Recherche Marchés, Organisations, … - 2014

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Joint Agriculture-Health-Nutrition Technology in Developing Countries.

Muller, C. - Département d'Économique, Université Laval - 1995

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Women Make Income Gains by Shifting from Subsistence to Cash Crops

Brown, Lynn - In: Development Outreach 10 (2008) 3, pp. 20-22

Enabling women to move beyond subsistence and into market-oriented production is important for successful agricultural development. An example from Mozambique.

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Macro-Economic Conditions for Sustainable Agriculture in Central America.

Thorpe, A. - Department of Economics, University of Portsmouth - 1996

agricultural production (the 'reversing of the terms of trade bias against agriculture' of the Neo-liberals being one obvious facet …

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Institutions, Market Power and the Big Push: the Case of Agro-Exports in Northern Honduras.

de Fontenay, C. - School of Economics, UNSW Business School - 1999

This paper examines the implementation of a Big Push policy in Northern Honduras. Big Push theory emphasizes that pro-active development policy could potentially lead to a Pareto-superior equilibrium. Market forces may not lead to the adoption of increasing-returns production processes, if...

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Agriculture Incentives in Sub-Saharan Africa. Policy Challanges.

Townsend, R.F. - World Bank Group - 1999

The main focus of this study is on improving the policy regime in Africa to stimulate agricultural growth. It examines the state of agricultural incentives in Sub-Saharan Africa, taking stock of the current policy environment and its recent evolution, to update knowledge and to help develop a...

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Education Expenditure Responses to Crop Loss in Indonesia: A Gender Bias

Cameron, L.; Worswick, C. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 1998

This paper studies the impact of crop loss on the level of educational expenditure of Indonesian households using data from the 1993 Indonesian Family Life Survey. The data are unique in that they contain self-reported information on crop loss and on household responses to crop loss. Thirty-four...

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Agricultural Credit Under Economic Liberalization and Islamization in Sudan.

Elhiraika, A.B.; Ahmed, S.A. - African Economic Research Consortium - 1998

This study uses survey data to examine the operations of the agrarian credit market, formal and informal, in Sudan uder conditions of recent economic liberalization and islamization ; the later does not allow interest rate fixing.

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The Dynamics of Economic Growth in Jevons' the Coal Question: A Classical Approach?

Lesourd, J.-B.; Schilizzi, S.G.M. - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative … - 1997

The dynamics of industrial growth in Jevons' The Coal Question is developed in two directions. Malthus' dynamics of the supply of subsistence and population growth is transposed into one between coal supply and economic growth. A second influence lies with the dynamic evolution of Ricardian...

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