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revenue from crop and livestock agriculture across various farm types and systems in Africa to changes in climate normals (i … crop and livestock farming and irrigation offered better adaptation options for farmers against further warming and drying …
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rate of food price inflation. The growth has been very uneven across sectors with agriculture remaining very sluggish. The …
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level and expectations of increasing log prices were correlated with the decision whether to establish plantation forest … being used, for plantation forestry include forestry tax policy, expectations of increasing log prices, regional location of …
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distributional implications of rice price changes in Madagascar. While many farmers do not participate in product markets as either … farmers who fall below the poverty line face significant negative first-order welfare effects from increases in the mean or … variance of rice prices. Conversely, the first-order gains from rice price increases are highly concentrated among the largest …
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Non-point-source (NPS) pollution refers to a form of pollution in which neither the source nor the size of specific emissions can be observed or identified with sufficient accuracy. In NPS pollution the ambient concentration of pollutants associated with the individually unobserved emissions is...
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Why do so many African governments consistently impose high tax rates and make little investment in productive public goods, when alternative policies could yield greater tax revenues and higher national income? The authors posit and test an intertemporal political economy model in which the...
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Why do so many African governments consistently impose high tax rates and make little investment in productive public goods, when alternative policies could yield greater tax revenues and higher national income? We posit and test an intertemporal political economy model in which the government...
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This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model of an agricultural economy in which poor farmers borrow from … rich farmers. Because output is stochastic (we allow for idiosyncratic and aggregate shocks) there may be default ex …
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agriculture and land use. A GIS-based hedonic pricing model shows that agricultural open space increases nearby residential … larger impacts. Because they tend to occur together, the negative impacts of animal agriculture and the positive impacts of …
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Today, agriculture remains the most distorted sector of the world economy. Therefore, agricultural liberalisation in …
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