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temperature and international outmigration only in the most agriculture-dependent countries, consistent with the widely … effective if focused on the agriculture-dependent countries and especially people in those countries whose livelihoods depend on … agriculture …
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describe how entrepreneurship reallocates farmers out of agriculture into non-agricultural activities and locations. Recent …African agriculture's importance for sustainable development is well appreciated. Indeed, recent years have seen a … physical resources across occupations and space, and without which agriculture and industrial development, and hence structural …
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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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