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| Wehrheim, Peter; Schoeller-Schletter, Anja; Martius, Christopher; Djanibekov, Nodir; Bobojonov, Ihtiyor; Rudenko, Inna; Lamers, John P.A.; Muller, Marc; Schieder, Tina; Cai, Ximing; Hirsch, Darya; Wall, Caleb. |
| Decades of Soviet rule have left a heritage of environmental and social problems in Central Asia. The demise of an entire ecosystem at unprecedented pace, the "Aral Sea Syndrome", is the most prominent of the undesired outcomes of the focus on agricultural production that has dominated land and resource use and continues till today. The international outcry over this ecological crisis has delegated other – and maybe more urgent – problems to a second pane. Rural livelihoods are rapidly deteriorating, unemployment is high, and rural poverty widespread. Ecological aspects, although strongly affecting everyday life in rural areas – such as water and soil salinity and environmental pollution – are not the fore most concern to the local population, as the... |
| Tipo: Book |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Crop Production/Industries; Industrial Organization; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; International Relations/Trade; Land Economics/Use. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/92320 |
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| Muller, Marc; Wehrheim, Peter. |
| This paper provides an overview of the most recent developments on Russian cereal markets. A review of annual statistics on domestic production, trade, consumption, and storage of cereals reveals that the improvement in Russia’s net trade position cannot only be explained by increased productivity of grain producers. Exhausted storage capacities and lowered real trade costs after the devaluation of the Russian rouble in 1998 seem to have contributed to these developments. A computable general equilibrium model for Russia based on 1999 data was used for analyzing various economic developments and policy changes. The model simulations show that market protection in the short run, when the flexibility of labor and capital is restricted, may benefit Russian... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Russia; Agriculture; Cereals; Trade; General Equilibrium Analysis; Crop Production/Industries; International Relations/Trade. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/97439 |
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