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Institutional change in the international governance of agriculture: a revised account [PDF]
The place of agriculture in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) prior to 1986 is usually described in terms of either exclusion or exemption from general trading rules.
Ackrill +38 more
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ABSTRACT In recent decades, prominent development organizations have promoted market inclusion and agricultural value chain integration as pathways to rural prosperity in the Global South. Focusing upon the experiences of Indigenous Kaqchikel peasants in Guatemala's horticultural export sector, this paper offers a cautionary tale.
S. Ryan Isakson
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Background Superoxide dismutases (SODs) are a key antioxidant enzyme family, which have been implicated in protecting plants against the toxic effects of reactive oxygen species.
Wei Wang +4 more
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Biological Innovation and Productivity Growth in the Antebellum Cotton Economy [PDF]
The Cliometrics literature on slave efficiency has generally focused on static questions. We take a decidedly more dynamic approach. Drawing on the records of 142 plantations with 509 crops years, we show that the average daily cotton picking rate ...
Alan L. Olmstead, Paul W. Rhode
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In Georgia, commercial upland cotton cultivars that expressed bronze wilt‐like responses consistently showed high copy numbers of cotton leafroll dwarf virus (CLRDV) gene, particularly in late‐planted cotton. These observations parallel historical reports of bronze wilt and suggest an association between CLRDV infection and bronze wilt‐like symptom ...
Surendra R. Edula +6 more
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The Impacts of U.S. Cotton Programs on the World Market: An Analysis of Brazilian and African WTO Petitions [PDF]
Brazil, supported by Australia challenged U.S. cotton programs at the September 2003 meeting of the WTO settlement Body. Brazil complained that U.S. cotton subsidies such as marketing loans, export credits, commodity certificates, direct payments and ...
Ethridge, Don E. +3 more
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Freshwater pulmonate snails are prevalent across Kenya and act as intermediate hosts for trematode parasites, some of which are snail vectors for human schistosomiasis. Chemical molluscicides have rarely been used routinely in Kenya to control snails due to high costs of manufacture and the subsequent environmental concerns associated with their use ...
Nickson Samoo +7 more
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Changes in New Mexico Agriculture 1995 [PDF]
Industrial Organization,
Harper, Wilmer M., Orta, Laura
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Missouri Representative Farms: Farm Level Impacts of Three Commodity Title Provisions in the Administration's 2007 Farm Bill Proposal [PDF]
This report explains the farm level impacts that three of the provisions from the Administration's 2007 farm bill may have on Missouri representative farms.Agricultural and Food Policy,
FAPRI
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