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| Langyintuo, Augustine S.; Setimela, Peter S.. |
| The publication describes outcomes of a study to assess the effectiveness of a large-scale crop seed relief effort in Zimbabwe during 2003-07. Aims of the effort, which was supported by the British Department for International Development (DfID) and coordinated by the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) regional office in Harare, included broader diffusion of open-pollinated maize varieties (OPVs), as opposed to hybrids. Based on the findings of the study, the authors recommend that, to increase benefits to vulnerable groups, participants in such efforts should effectively disseminate information on selecting and recycling seed, supported by training and field demonstrations, and should target relatively well-endowed farmers initially. Recommendations... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural development; Technical aid; Farm income; Food production; Maize; Open pollination; Hybrids; Zimbabwe; Crop Production/Industries; International Development. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7655 |
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| Tefft, James F.; Kelly, Valerie A.. |
| The study of the Linkages between Child Nutrition and Agricultural Growth (LICNAG) seeks to understand the positive and negative repercussions that agricultural-led growth has on children's health and nutritional status. The project's goal is to identify means of strengthening positive linkages between agricultural development and factors that influence child health and nutritional status. To accomplish this, we conducted a study (May 2001 - April 2002) of 750 rural households located in three agricultural systems: an irrigated rice zone in the Office du Niger of the Ségou Region, a rain-fed cotton zone in the Sikasso Region, and a traditional millet and sorghum zone in the Mopti Region. This paper reports the results of preliminary analysis using the... |
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Palavras-chave: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; International Development; Downloads July 2008 - June 2009: 16. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/11665 |
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| Vinyes, Cristina; Roe, Terry L.. |
| Disenchantment with the Washington Consensus has led to an emphasis on growth diagnostics. In the case of Brazil, the literature suggests three main factors impeding growth: low domestic savings, a shortage of skilled workers, and lack of investment in the country’s transportation infrastructure. The unique contribution of this study is to show the inter-temporal implications of relaxing these constraints. We fit a multi-sector Ramsey model to Brazilian data, validate its fit to times data, and provide empirical insights into the economy’s structural transformation to long-run equilibrium. Then, the sensitivity of these results to relaxing each of these three constraints is investigated in a manner that yields the same long-run level of well- being.... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Economic growth; Ramsey; Growth diagnostics; International Development; O11; O41; O54; D58. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/56502 |
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| Swinnen, Johan F.M.; Vandemartele, Thijs; Hirschauer, Norbert; Gaetano, Martino; Nijhoff-Savvaki, Rannia; Trienekens, Jacques H.; Omta, S.W.F. (Onno); Bachev, Hrabrin Ianouchev; Bezat-Jarzębowska, Agnieszka; Jarzebowski, Sebastian; Paus, Marguerite; Singh, Dheeraj; Prahalad, V.C.; Wangshu, Lobsang; Bakucs, Lajos Zoltan; Ferto, Imre; Havas, Attila; Ehlers, Melf-Hinrich; Bojnec, Stefan; Ferto, Imre; Levkovych, Inna; Toth, Aniko; Forgacs, Csaba. |
| The rise of a western-style middle class in many successful emerging economies like China currently is inducing deep structural changes on agricultural world markets and within the global agri-food business. As a result of both higher incomes and concerns over product safety and quality the global demand for high-quality and safe food products is increasing significantly. In order to meet the new required quality, globally minimum quality standards are rising and private standards emerging. All over the world these developments cause adjustments at the enterprise, chain and market levels. At the same time, the tremendously increasing demand for renewable energy has led to the emergence of a highly promising market for biomass production. This has... |
| Tipo: Book |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Agricultural Finance; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Industrial Organization; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; International Development; Marketing; Political Economy. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/92317 |
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| Varga, Istvan; Lefler, Peter; Markus, Monika. |
| Magyarország EU tagsága a hazai szőlőtermesztés és borászat számára lét-kérdéssé tette a „gazdálkodj globálisan, cselekedj lokálisan” elv szigorú és kö-vetkezetes alkalmazását, vagyis a világ szőlőtermesztésében végbemenő változá-sok naprakész figyelését. A tradíciókra építő, borvidéki jelleget (terroir) hangsú-lyozó, szabályokkal és rendeletekkel védett (esetleg korlátozott) európai szőlő-termesztés és borászat nap mint nap szembesül a „bor újvilág” kihívásaival. Elsősorban a déli földteke (Chile, Dél-Afrika, Ausztrália, Új-Zéland) és újab-ban Kína szőlőtermesztése jó minőségű, olcsó vagy közepes árfekvésű boraival túlsúlyba került a nagy áruházláncok borkínálatában. A sikert a jó ár/érték arány mellett az agresszív és sikeres marketing akciók... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Fajta használat; Tradícionális borrégiók versenyképessége; Termelési érték összehasonlító elemzése; Species; Competitiveness of traditional wine regions; Comparison of production values; Crop Production/Industries; International Development. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54856 |
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| Ryan, James G.. |
| The green revolution in developing countries magnified concern about the efficient allocation of agricultural research resources and the distributional consequences of alternative research resource allocation and technology design strategies. These concerns are being increasingly reflected in the planning, management and research activities of the international agricultural research centres. In this paper a description is given of how economists at one centre contributed their expertise to the ex ante analysis of some key issues in this complex milieu, such as the determination of research goals and priorities, the small-large farm dichotomy or nexus, income distribution and employment effects, human nutritional considerations and farmer risk attitudes. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: International Development; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies. |
| Ano: 1984 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/22437 |
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| Dercon, Stefan; Hoddinott, John. |
| Rural and urban spaces are usually regarded as “separate” in both development theory and practice. Yet there are myriad links between them. Urban areas, including regional urban centers such as local market towns, provide households with new opportunities to sell goods and services. These opportunities increase household income by employing previously unemployed household resources or because households reallocate household resources so as to take advantage of new, more profitable activities. Links to market towns improve the prices received by rural households because households can benefit from increased demand for their goods or because the larger market is better able to absorb production from rural areas without causing prices to decline. These links... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Livelihoods; Transport; Poverty; Rural-urban linkages; Ethiopia; International Development; Marketing. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/59596 |
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| Bhamoriya, Vaibhav P.; Gandhi, Vasant P.. |
| The effective management of water resources is assuming enormous importance in India in the recent years. Sound water resource use is crucial for sustaining and raising food production, increasing rural incomes, alleviating poverty, and meeting drinking water as well as other human and industrial needs. It is now widely recognized that apart from engineering feats, good institutional arrangements are crucial for the sound management of the resource. In light of this, the development of water institutions has been taken up in India, but remains a major weakness. Existing water institutions are found to be lacking on various counts, and one of the critical deficiencies identified is the lack of adaptiveness to the significantly varying resource status, the... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: International Development. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/58885 |
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