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-priority areas for targeted short- and long-term investments to boost productivity, drive economic development, and reduce poverty. …
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PARI's main goal is to contribute to sustainable agricultural growth and food security in Africa and India by supporting the scaling of proven innovations in the agri-food sector in collaboration with all relevant actors. PARI accompanies specified innovations with ex-ante impact research and...
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In this paper we examine more closely the factors associated with production inefficiency in China’s agriculture. The … large percentage of the rural labor force engaged in agriculture tend to be less efficient, and suggests that nurturing and … promoting growth of non-primary agriculture may lead to more efficient use of labor resources in agriculture …
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Despite the huge decline in the contribution of agriculture to the Sudanese exports from 73% in 1998 to only 5% in 2007 … as a result of the growing share of petroleum; agriculture remain an important sector in the economy contributing 35% to … GDP in 2007 and employing about 70% of the Sudanese labour force. Traditional agriculture occupies 60% of the total …
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The recent trend of development policy makes emphasis on gender disparity in performance, especially in the agricultural sector whereby women partake and play a crucial role and their contribution to the sector cannot be overemphasized. However, the contention is whether such disparity in...
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This paper applies the Malmquist productivity index method to measure total factor productivity (TFP) growth in … Vietnamese agriculture using panel data from 60 provinces in Vietnam during 1985-2000 when Vietnam implemented widespread de …-collectivization, trade liberalization, and reformed her agriculture sector. This study indicates that most of the early growth in Vietnamese …
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