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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 +4 more
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Strengthening CGIAR-Private Sector Partnerships in Biotechnology: A Private Sector Committee Perspective on Compelling Issues [PDF]
, 1997 A paper prepared for the CGIAR Private Sector Committee by a member of the CGIAR Secretariat, on the role of biotechnology in the CGIAR, and the need for partnerships with private sector firms engaged in research in agricultural biotechnology.Three ...
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International Journal of Body, Mind and Culture, 2017 Somatoform disorder and somatic symptom disorder (SSD) are resistant to traditional medical support. Patients experience a vicious cycle of focused awareness/attention towards distressing bodily sensations.
Ulrich Sollmann, Wentian Li, Wang Haojie
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Ekonomia i Prawo, 2010 Corruption is a universal and specific phenomenon of multifactor and multi aspect character and it embraces a lot of shades and types. This establishes a wide understanding of that phenomenon in social science and law.
Krzysztof Nowakowski
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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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Report of the Sixteenth Meeting of the CGIAR Private Sector Committee [PDF]
, 2002 Report of the sixteenth meeting of the CGIAR Private Sector Committee, held in London, UK on February 13-14, 2002, Chairman Sam Dryden presiding. Ian Johnson, CGIAR Chairman, and Francisco Reifschneider, CGIAR Director attended part of the meeting.
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Temporary Programs, Lasting Questions: Ad Hoc Assistance in the U.S. Farm Safety Net
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Large ad hoc assistance programs have returned to U.S. farm policy since 2017, operating alongside a more developed safety net built around federally subsidized crop insurance, Title I commodity programs, and standing disaster assistance. This paper reviews the renewed use of ad hoc assistance, documents its recent scale using USDA data, and ...
Alejandro Plastina +1 more
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Report of the Fifth Meeting of the CGIAR Private Sector Committee [PDF]
, 1996 Report of the fifth meeting of the CGIAR Private Sector Committee, held in London, March 31-April 2, 1997 and chaired by Andreas Büchting and Assia Alaoui. Matters discussed included funding cuts and staff reductions at ICRISAT and IRRI, a draft paper on
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Investment Retention Mechanisms: Rationale and Implementation Experience
AJIL UnboundThis contribution highlights the importance of institutional dispute prevention not just to prevent the proliferation of formal legal disputes between states and foreign investors, but also to preserve the relationship between investors and states and ...
Priyanka Kher
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Asian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2023 Background: There is a pressing need for systematic approaches for monitoring how much tuberculosis (TB) treatment is ongoing in the public and private sectors in India, Both to shed light on the true scale of the problem and to help monitor the progress
Yogesh Shukla +3 more
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