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Linking technical change to research effort: an examination of aggregation and spillovers effects
Traxler, Greg; Byerlee, Derek - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 24 (2001) 3
We used a disaggregate approach to examine investment efficiency of wheat breeding research in India. India's total … during the period studied. Although the aggregate rate of return to wheat improvement research in India was estimated to be …
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Seasonality and spatial integration in agricultural (product) markets
Zanias, George P. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 20 (1999) 3
testing approach to the soft wheat market of five European Union member states produces mixed results as some of the markets …
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The rise and fall of public sector plant breeding in the United Kingdom: a causal chain model of basic and applied research and diffusion
Thirtle, C.; Bottomley, P.; Palladino, P.; … - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 19 (1998) 1-2
This paper examines the barley and wheat breeding programmes of the Plant Breeding Institute (PBI), which was the most … successful public plant breeding institute in the UK, until privatization in 1987. The PBI's shares in barley and wheat seed … sales are explained, showing that the success with barley was largely a matter of serendipity, whereas the wheat programme …
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Alternate Modes of Irrigation and Farmer Returns Under Conjunctive Water Management in Pakistan
Jehangir, Waqar Ahmed; Ashfaq, Muhammad; Christen, Evan - In: Australasian Agribusiness Review 11 (2003)
The paper describes a study of canal and supplemental ground water used by 544 farmers for wheat growing in the Rechna … irrigation and comparing them with conjunctive water use. For econometric analysis, a linear relationship between the wheat …
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2009
Includes cover page, journal info, contents page, and editorial information
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Transgenic Crops, Production Risk, and Agrobiodiversity
Krishna, Vijesh V.; Qaim, Matin; Zilberman, David - Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF), Rheinische … - 2014
Do transgenic crops cause agrobiodiversity erosion? We hypothesize that they increase productivity and reduce production risk and may therefore reduce farmer demand for on-farm varietal diversity, especially when only a few transgenic varieties are available. We also hypothesize that varietal...
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Cover, Front Matter, and Table of Contents
Khanna, Neha; Basu, Arnab K. - In: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 42 (2013) 2
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The Brunt of Oil Demand and US-Dollar Exchange Rate: Evidence From Net-Oil Importing Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Sene, Seydina; Mishra, Dr. Ashok - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2015
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Table of Contents and Front Matter
In: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 43 (2014) 2
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Facilitating access to rural services in Vietnam: The invisible social capital link
Hoang Dinh, Quoc; Dufhues, Thomas; Buchenrieder, Gertrud - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
This paper investigates the effects of network based individual social capital on the access of rural households to services. In the context of development economics, an innovative data collection approach is used to determine network based social capital. The approach originates from the field...
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