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Assessing Household Welfare in Response to Rising Food Prices in The Gambia
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how rising food prices affected household welfare in The Gambia using nationally representative data from the 2015/16 Integrated Household Survey (IHS‐3). The analysis reflects household consumption behavior and market conditions prevailing during that period and provides a structural benchmark for understanding ...
Roger Vorsah +3 more
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Forage seeding in rangelands increases production and prevents weed invasion
California Agriculture, 2017 Increasing forage productivity in the Sierra foothill rangelands would help sustain the livestock industry as land availability shrinks and lease rates rise, but hardly any studies have been done on forage selections.
Josh Davy +3 more
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LAND CONSOLIDATION AS A FACTOR FOR SUCCESSFUL DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURE IN MOLDOVA [PDF]
Since 1991, Moldova has carried out a wide range of radical reforms affecting its social and economic system. The land reform, which was practically completed in 2000, created over 1 million landowners among the rural population.
Cimpoies, Dragos, Lerman, Zvi
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THE PERSPECTIVES OF FAMILY FARMS – CONTINUATION
Problems of Agricultural Economics, 2020 Family farms dominate in agriculture determining global food security and are essential for ecological security. These farms have not been precisely defined probably due to their enormous differentiation among and within regions and countries of the world.
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Unpacking the Farmland Capitalization Effect of Ethanol Establishment
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We unpack the impact of expansions in ethanol production—as measured by proximity to newly constructed ethanol plants and capacity expansions—on farmland values using land transaction data from Kansas in combination with modern causal inference techniques.
Gabriel S. Sampson, Jisang Yu
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Conserveries Mémorielles, 2013 The article explores the ways in which the Basotho, a late immigrant group into Gutu, have formulated strategies of belonging and anchored themselves among the dominant Karanga populations of south-eastern Zimbabwe.
Joseph Mujere
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Characteristics of Canada's Diverse Farm Sector [PDF]
Much of the research in the past on farm structure and economic well-being focused almost exclusively on farms based on their size, their contribution to total agricultural production, or national net farm income.
Niekamp, Deborah
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On the Economics of US Agricultural Policy
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper presents an economic analysis of US agricultural policy, building on a modified version of Gardner's efficient redistribution. We argue that agricultural policy is motivated as an attempt to implement an efficient redistribution scheme that redistributes income toward farmers who, as a group, have been adversely affected by ...
Jean‐Paul Chavas
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An analysis of the efficiency in a sample of small Italian farms part of the FADN dataset
Agricultural Economics (AGRICECON), 2016 Italian farms have an average surface lower than 10 hectares and they are predominately scattered in the upland rural areas. The most important aspect of small family farms is to protect the rural environment against the socio-economic marginalization of
Nicola GALLUZZO
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Agriculture in Transformation: The Restructuring of Farm Enter in Central and Eastern European Countries during the Transition Process [PDF]
Ten years of transition processes in the former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC) have changed the ownership structure as well as the structures and legal forms of enterprises in agriculture considerably.
Schulze, Eberhard, Tillack, Peter
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