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Agriculture for nutrition : getting policies right
Pingali, Prabhu L.; Ricketts, Katie; Sahn, David E. - 2014
of structural transformation and population-level nutrition outcomes is essential for contextualizing agriculture …
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Periurban agriculture : do the current EU agri-environmental policy programmes fit with it?
Arata, Linda; Guastella, Gianni; Pareglio, Stefano; … - 2018
In the European Union (EU) periurban agriculture is under the same agri-environmental policy regime designed for … general agriculture. We argue that the specific needs of periurban agriculture may justify ad hoc agri-environmental policy … agriculture measures in this area. The mismatch between the low uptake rate and the high social benefits generated by the four …
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The National Food Security Act (NFSA) 2013 : challenges, buffer stocking and the way forward
Saini, Shweta; Gulati, Ashok - 2015
The National Food Security Act (NFSA) 2013 combines and expands the scope of some existing food-based welfare schemes. It will be distributing raw rations, meal(s) and/or cash. Approximately 81.35 crore persons or 16.57 crore households are to benefit under the targeted public distribution...
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Evolution and critique of buffer stocking policy of India
Saini, Shweta; Kozicka, Marta - 2014
famines, such grain stocks are a conduit deployed by the government to foster the country's agriculture development and food …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010404643
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How green are economists?
Carattini, Stefano; Tavoni, Alessandro - 2016
The market for voluntary carbon offsets has grown steadily in the last decade, yet it remains a very small niche. Most emissions from business travel are still not offset. This paper exploits a unique dataset examining the decision to purchase carbon offsets at two academic conferences in...
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Land conversion pace under uncertainty and irreversibility : too fast or too slow?
Di Corato, Luca; Moretto, Michele; Vergalli, Sergio - 2011
In this paper stochastic dynamic programming is used to investigate land conversion decisions taken by a multitude of landholders under uncertainty about the value of environmental services and irreversible development. We study land conversion under competition on the market for agricultural...
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The impact of climate change on agriculture : nonlinear effects and aggregation bias in Ricardian models of farm land values
Fezzi, Carlo; Bateman, Ian - 2013
Ricardian (hedonic) analyses of the impact of climate change on farmland values typically assume additively separable effects of temperature and precipitation. Model estimation is implemented on data aggregated across counties or large regions. We investigate the potential bias induced by such...
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Impact of climate smart agriculture on food security: an agent-based analysis
Bazzana, Davide; Foltz, Jeremy D.; Zhang, Ying - 2021
The study proposes an agent-based model to investigate how adoption of climate smart agriculture (CSA) affects food …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012519988
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Agricultural and food policy issues in Mozambique : a multi-market analysis
Dorosh, Paul; Bernier, René E. - 1994
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