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Agrimonitor Agricultural Policy Indicators: Consumor Support Estimate (CSE) 2023

, 2023
Governments around the world use agricultural policies to intervene in their agricultural sectors, either through budgetary support or price supports. The AGRIMONITOR initiative produces different Agricultural Policy Indicators for the analysis of the ...
Inter-American Development Bank
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Kenyan Farmers' Policy Priorities During Economic Crisis and Stability: Insights From a Best‐Worst Scaling Experiment

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid rising food and fertilizer prices, understanding farmers' policy preferences is critical for effective crisis response. We use best‐worst scaling experiment to assess Kenyan mobile‐owning crop farmers' preferences for government support under high and normal price scenarios.
Mywish K. Maredia, John Olwande, Jacob Ricker‐Gilbert, David L. Mather, Nicole M. Mason   +4 more
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Agricultural policy center — friend or foe?

California Agriculture, 1985
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J Kendrick
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Adapting to Changing Rainfall and Developing Off‐Farm Employment: Implications for the Adoption of Direct Seeding in Rice Production

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rice is the main staple food for more than half of the world's population and the income from rice is an essential source for livelihoods of millions of households. We examine whether direct seed in rice production is an adaptation of rice farmers to rainfall changes and farm labor scarcity.
Manh Hung Do
wiley   +1 more source

Root causes of underutilisation of assisted agricultural machinery on rice production in Indonesia [PDF]

BIO Web of Conferences
Several studies have shown that government-assisted agricultural machinery to increase rice production is underutilised optimally. This study aims to identify the problem of this non-optimality.
Setiyanto Adi, Dabukke Frans B.M., Astari Annisa F., Azis Miftahul, Sinuraya Julia F., Ulpah Amalia   +5 more
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Greening the common agricultural policy: a behavioural perspective and lab-in-the-field experiment in Germany

European Review of Agricultural Economics, 2019
This study investigates the behavioural economic underpinnings of current policy approaches to integrate environmental objectives into the Common Agricultural Policy. We conduct an economic lab-in-the-field experiment with farmers in Germany.
Fabian Thomas, Estelle Midler, M. Lefebvre, S. Engel   +3 more
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Accounting for Substitution: Improving Estimates of GHG Reductions From Cattle‐Based Product Demand Shifts

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Estimates of reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from lower demand for cattle‐based products must account for substitution effects. This study collected data through two surveys—one on ground beef and another on dairy milk—to evaluate substitution effects and potential GHG reductions.
Brandon R. McFadden, Sara Gardner Hedgecock, Lawton L. Nalley, Alvaro Durand‐Morat, Aaron Shew, Rodolfo M. Nayga Jr   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

National Agricultural Soil Management Policy 2020

, 2020
Agriculture is important in Kenya’s national economy as it contributes 27.3% of the Gross Domestic Product and the survival of the Kenyan population is thus directly dependent almost entirely on soils to derive goods and services (KENBS-ESR, 2019 ...

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Sustainable Productivity Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Shifts in R&D Investments and Technology

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is to evaluate the long‐term prospects of sustainable productivity growth linked to plausible assumptions on public agricultural R&D investments as the key productivity driver. Second, it investigates the role of changing R&D focus from yield maximization to input saving technologies (fertilizers and pesticides). The
Zuzana Smeets Křístková, Michiel van Dijk, Robert M'Barek, Hans van Meijl, Tomas Ratinger   +4 more
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Rural Transformation, Water Scarcity and Policy Responses in China

Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies
This study examines the complex interplay between rural transformation and water scarcity in China, focussing on how shifts towards high‐value agriculture and non‐farm employment affect water resources. Utilising data spanning 2 decades, it evaluates the
Jinxia Wang, Zhiyi Guo, Dong Wang, Kaixing Huang, Zhuanlin Wang, Ruoying Mei, Rujuan Li, Jikun Huang, Chenhui Zhang, Chunlai Chen   +9 more
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