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Value chain development is adopted widely as a private sector-led approach to agricultural development that can benefit smallholders. The objective of this research is to understand how development organizations are conceptualizing and developing agricultural value chains in Ghana to include...
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Existing reviews on agriculture and nutrition consider limited evidence and focus on impact size, rather than impact … one of the agriculture-nutrition pathways. Agricultural development plays a role in improving nutrition. However … agriculture — especially by women — competes with time needed for resting, childcare, and food preparation and can have unintended …
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agriculture. These include (a) increased specialization in soybeans, with resulting reduced possibilities of risk-reduction though … “portfolio” effects, (b) increased importance of agriculture in “non-traditional” areas, generally characterized by lower yields … agriculture, as well as the consequences of this variability on efficiency and resource allocation and present an overview of …
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USDA spends over $5 billion per year on conservation activities, mostly through voluntary programs that pay farmers and …
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture spends over $5 billion per year on conservation programs, mostly on voluntary … programs that give financial assistance to farmers and landowners to provide environmental services (such as implementing …
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Although agriculture could contribute substantially to European emission reductions, its mitigation potential lies … agriculture together with the literature on the design of market-based instruments. To structure the discussion, an options space … role of policy coverage, instruments and transfers to farmers in overcoming the barriers. First, the results show that a …
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country to country depending on which perquisites were present or absent. In the past twenty years, Brazilian agriculture … is in the worlds' top five producers of coffee, soybeans, oranges, beef and corn. Yet, some segments of agriculture lag …
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Soils are often subject to environmental shocks which are caused by negative externalities linked to overexploitation. We present a stochastic model of a dynamic agricultural economy where natural disasters are sizeable, multiple, and random. Expansion of agricultural activities raises effective...
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Agriculture" (Analiza przebiegu realizacji i skutków programów PROW 2004-2006 i Sektorowego Programu Operacyjnego Rolnictwo …
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This study analyzes the performance of agriculture sector in the state of Odisha from 1970 to 2012. The entire time … to deliver, especially in agriculture …
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