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Trade and Development When Exports Lack Diversification: A Case Study From Malawi
Persaud, Suresh Chand; Meade, Birgit Gisela Saager - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2009
analysis uses Malawi, a country that earns most of its foreign exchange from tobacco, as a case study of export concentration … and heavy exposure to volatility. The econometric results suggest that the decline in Malawi’s gross domestic product (GDP … yield and improvements in marketing efficiency, however, can help buffer Malawi’s GDP from variability in export revenues. …
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Adaptation to Climate Change and Food Security: Micro-evidence from Malawi
Asfaw, Solomon; McCarty, Nancy; Lipper, Leslie; Arslan, … - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2013
representative sample of 7842 households (11208 plots) in Malawi. We employ a multivariate probit (MVP) technique to model …
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Has Imported Rice Crowded-out Domestic Rice Production in Ghana? What has Been the Role of Policy?
Asuming-Brempong, Samuel; Osei-Asare, Yaw Bonsu - 2008
Commercial rice imports have accounted for approximately 61%, food aid in rice accounted for about 2%, and domestic rice accounted for some 37% per annum of rice consumption in Ghana over the four years between 2000 and 2003. Compared to the 1990s, these figures show a gradual decline in the...
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The Economic Determinants of the On-farm Management of Rice Cultivars in the Rhone River Delta (France)
Jaeck, Melanie; Lifran, Robert - 2011
The aims of our paper are to identify economic determinants of theon-farm cultivars diversity and to empirically characterize the farmers'diversi…cation choices. We focus on the private decision making processinvolving the choice of rice cultivars and the corresponding allocation offarmland....
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2009
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Macroeconomic Impacts of Water Use in Agriculture
Weinheimer, Justin; Wheeler-Cook, Erin; Ethridge, Don E.; … - 2010
The recent/current recession provides the opportunity to study the effects of the macroeconomic changes on the agricultural production systems in the Great Plains and trace some of its impacts through the system to changes in primary inputs such water resource use. Therefore, the objective of...
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Cereal price instability in Ethiopia: An examination of sources and policy options
Shahidur, Rashid; Meron, Assefa - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2008
Managing food price instability is a long standing policy challenge, which, with mixed experiences of agricultural price policy reforms, has re-emerged as a contemporary policy issue. This is particularly true for Ethiopia, where managing food price stability continues to be a formidable policy...
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Has Imported Rice Crowded-out Domestic Rice Production in Ghana? What has Been the Role of Policy?
Asuming-Brempong, Samuel; Osei-Asare, Yaw Bonsu - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2008
Commercial rice imports have accounted for approximately 61%, food aid in rice accounted for about 2%, and domestic rice accounted for some 37% per annum of rice consumption in Ghana over the four years between 2000 and 2003. Compared to the 1990s, these figures show a gradual decline in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068384
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Benefit-Cost Analysis and Socio-Economic Considerations of Trypanosomiasis Control and Treatment in Northern Ghana
Wahab, S.; Asuming-Brempong, Samuel - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2008
The paper estimates the cost of tsetse control and treatment of trypanosomiasis and the benefits involved, using benefit-cost analysis. It also estimates the extent to which socio-economic characteristics of farmers affect the use of tsetse control techniques, using a maximum Likelihood-Binary...
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Environmental and Economic Impact Assessments of Environmental Regulations for the Agriculture Sector: A Case Study of Potato Farming
Craven, Ian - Agriculture Canada, Government of Canada - 2006
A multi-year research study was established under the environmental pillar of the Agriculture Policy Framework (APF) to evaluate the role and impact of existing farm level environmental regulations administered by local, provincial, federal governments. The Phase 1 study entitled "Inventory and...
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