Author : Liverpool-Tasie, Lenis
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,49 MB
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
While there is growing evidence of the impact of targeted subsidies on private input demand, as far as we are aware no empirical studies have examined the spillover effects of targeted subsidies for just one input on the use of other complementary inputs with which there is low substitutability. Consequently, this study begins to fill this gap by exploring the effect of increasing access to subsidized fertilizer on farmers use of improved seed in Nigeria.
Author : Peter DeLeon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,29 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780739133224
Protecting the environment is often not the primary objective of businesses. As the world has become more environmentally aware, the necessity of environmental regulations becomes apparent. Voluntary Environmental Programs: A Policy Perspective examines different approaches to environmental protection in business. Typically, environmental improvements on the part of industry result from government regulations that command certain action from industry and then control how well it performs. An alternative approach is voluntary environmental agreements, where firms voluntarily commit to make certain environmental improvements individually, as part of an industry association, or under the guidance of a government entity. For example, many new initiatives targeting climate change originate from companies that voluntarily commit to reduce their carbon output or footprint.
Author : John List
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 11,81 MB
Release : 2021-05-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1000384314
This critical volume combines theoretical and empirical work across disciplines to explore what threatens scalability—and what enables it—in the early childhood field. Authors and editors provide specific recommendations to help professionals refine and apply the science of scaling in their programs, research, and decision making. Written by leading experts in early childhood, economics, psychology, public health, philanthropy, and more, chapters and commentaries shine light on how to effectively use experimental insights for policy purposes. The result is a comprehensive and forward-thinking guide to the challenges and possibilities of effective scaling in early childhood and beyond. Essential reading for researchers, practitioners, funders, and policy makers alike, this book raises vital questions and provides a vision for the long-term journey to scalable evidence.
Author : Pamela Jagger and John Pender
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 38,74 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Julie Schaffner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 695 pages
File Size : 34,45 MB
Release : 2013-10-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0470599391
Development Economics: Theory, Empirical Research, and Policy Analysis by Julie Schaffner teaches students to think about development in a way that is disciplined by economic theory, informed by cutting-edge empirical research, and connected in a practical way to contemporary development efforts. It lays out a framework for the study of developing economies that is built on microeconomic foundations and that highlights the importance in development studies of transaction and transportation costs, risk, information problems, institutional rules and norms, and insights from behavioral economics. It then presents a systematic approach to policy analysis and applies the approach to policies from around the world, in the areas of targeted transfers, workfare, agricultural markets, infrastructure, education, agricultural technology, microfinance, and health.
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Publisher : CIMMYT
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 25,42 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Agricultural innovations
ISBN : 9789686127775
Author : J.K. Ladha
Publisher : Int. Rice Res. Inst.
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,26 MB
Release : 1995-09-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0792334132
Reprinted from Plant and Soil, v.174, nos.1-2 (1995), this volume is devoted to discussions on the role of biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) in agricultural sustainability. Papers presented on BNF in crop forage and tree legumes are augmented with discussion of integrated farming systems involving BNF, soil and N management, and recycling of legume residues. BNF by non-legumes is discussed and attempts to transform cereals into nodulating plants are critically reviewed. Also described are advances in the development of new methodologies to understand symbiotic interactions and to assess N-2 fixation in the field; means of enhancing BNF through plant and soil management; breeding and selection; problems encountered in exploiting BNF under farmers' field conditions; and promising approaches to improve BNF exploitation. Lacks a subject index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Francisco Areal
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 39,22 MB
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 2832541283
Author : CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems
Publisher : WorldFish
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 32,33 MB
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Author : Robert E. Evenson
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 847 pages
File Size : 10,63 MB
Release : 2007-06-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0080545270
Volume 3 of this series of the Handbooks in Economics follows on from the previous two volumes by focusing on the fundamental concepts of agricultural economics. The first part of the volume examines the developments in human resources and technology mastery. The second part follows on by considering the processes and impact of invention and innovation in this field. The effects of market forces are examined in the third part, and the volume concludes by analysing the economics of our changing natural resources, including the past effects of climate change.Overall this volume forms a comprehensive and accessible survey of the field of agricultural economics and is recommended reading for anyone with an interest, either academic or professional, in this area.*Part of the renown Handbooks in Economics series*Contributors are leaders of their areas*International in scope and comprehensive in coverage
