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2022
This chapter is concerned with Iran’s water crisis, which is one of the most consequential issues that the current and future generations of Iranians have to deal with. It begins with explaining historical trends in domestic food supply, focusing on agricultural water consumption, cultivated area, patterns of irrigation, and the amount and composition ...
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This chapter is concerned with Iran’s water crisis, which is one of the most consequential issues that the current and future generations of Iranians have to deal with. It begins with explaining historical trends in domestic food supply, focusing on agricultural water consumption, cultivated area, patterns of irrigation, and the amount and composition ...
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Agricultural sector and industrial agglomeration [PDF]
Journal of Development Economics, 2005 In many developing countries, agriculture hires at least as many workers as manufacturing industries. We investigate an economic geography model in which agricultural goods are costly to transport and in which manufactures hire labor from the local agricultural sector as unskilled labor.
Picard, Pierre +2 more
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2019
This chapter contrasts Timor’s record with the agricultural dynamism evident in much of Southeast Asia. The agricultural sector is low in production, and it is not competitive internationally. Imports have to be resorted to in order to ensure food security. Production rests on shifting cultivation, bush fallow rotation, and simple hand tools.
Mats Lundahl, Fredrik Sjöholm
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This chapter contrasts Timor’s record with the agricultural dynamism evident in much of Southeast Asia. The agricultural sector is low in production, and it is not competitive internationally. Imports have to be resorted to in order to ensure food security. Production rests on shifting cultivation, bush fallow rotation, and simple hand tools.
Mats Lundahl, Fredrik Sjöholm
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Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing Sector
Journal of Safety Research, 2008The Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing sector comprises establishments primarily engaged in growing crops, raising animals, harvesting timber, and harvesting fish and other animals on a farm, ranch, or from their natural habitats. About 2.1 million workers were employed in agriculture, forestry, and fishing in the United States in 2004, making it one of
Larry J, Chapman, Bradley, Husberg
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Transformation of the Agricultural Sector
Eastern European Economics, 1994The key factor in the current radical economic reform of the Czech Republic is the transformation of the ownership structure. In the agricultural sector, this transformation is aimed at two principal, combined goals, the primary one of which is to remedy injustices inflicted by the collectivization and nationalization of the original private farms. The
Emil Divila, Zdeněk Sokol
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2018
This chapter analyzes the evolution of agriculture in Brazil from the early sixteenth century until the second decade of the twenty-first century. It focuses on seven domestic and external conditioning factors that have stimulated and supported the sector’s expansion in Brazil.
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This chapter analyzes the evolution of agriculture in Brazil from the early sixteenth century until the second decade of the twenty-first century. It focuses on seven domestic and external conditioning factors that have stimulated and supported the sector’s expansion in Brazil.
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Agriculture and the Rural Sector
1999As might be expected in a rapidly developing economy, the fraction of Malaysia’s people living in areas defined to be rural has declined over time:1 Per cent Population Rural 1970 73.2 1980 65.8 1991 49 ...
Robert E. B. Lucas, Donald Verry
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Macroeconomics and the Agricultural Sector
1993The study of macroeconomic linkages with the agricultural sector has become firmly established over the past two decades. Of course, agricultural economists have never been entirely parochial in their interests: real variables, as a matter of course, have always been used as explanatory variables in sectoral modelling (such as gross domestic product in
Midmore, P., Peel, David
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