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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the agricultural landscape of most developing countries, the last decade has witnessed the expansion of outsourced agricultural extension services. Private firms and nongovernmental organizations focused on delivering agricultural extension and advisory services to farmers have emerged.
Boris D. Soh Wenda +3 more
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Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2015 The paper assesses the effects of Land Tenure systems and its relationship with agricultural productivity in Ghana. It discusses the complex nature of the Tenure systems and some of the reforms the country has done over the years and standard of living ...
Libor Grega +2 more
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra +3 more
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Designing pro-poor rewards for ecosystem services: Land Tenure Center spring forum 7-8 April 2008 [PDF]
, 2008 Metadata only recordThe web page for the Land Tenure Center Spring Forum: "Designing Pro-poor Rewards for Ecosystem Services" (7-8 April 2008) has links to many of the presentations, papers and audio files from the two-day event.
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract This paper derives a firm‐level threshold, the Herfindahl Neutral Point, from the standard concentration index used in merger review. At this threshold, a marginal expansion leaves the index unchanged. Firms below the threshold reduce concentration when they expand; firms above it increase concentration.
Andrew J. Keller, Krishna P. Paudel
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Environmental Research Letters, 2017 Rising global demand for agricultural products results in agricultural expansion and intensification, with substantial environmental trade-offs. The South American Dry Chaco contains some of the fastest expanding agricultural frontiers worldwide, and ...
Sofía Marinaro +4 more
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The role of venture‐financed startups in innovation for US agriculture
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract To evaluate the role played by startup companies in the innovation ecosystem of US agriculture, we compile a unique dataset of 6024 new entrants founded 1987–2019 that details their financing lifecycles, annual economic performance, and patenting activities.
Gregory D. Graff +2 more
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Rewards for Ecosystem Services and Collective Land Tenure: Lessons from Ecuador and Indonesia [PDF]
, 2008 10 p.In an attempt to help protect the environment and spur economic development, programs that provide rewards in exchange for ecosystem services offer theoretical advantages over past mechanisms but also pose challenges, including determining who ...
Wendland, Kelly
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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract US universities are built on stolen land and sustained through hierarchies of power that produce what migrant justice scholars name as b/order regimes. As institutions that claim to be sites of learning and inclusion, universities are fraught with contradictions as simultaneously sites of dispossession, exclusion, and control.
Sara L. Buckingham +1 more
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Land and ethnicity in the Republic of Dagestan. [Rev.] [PDF]
, 1998 6 p., Revision of a 1996 unpublished document entitled: Land and ethnicity in the Republic of ...
University of Wisconsin--Madison. Land Tenure Center. +1 more
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