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Forest Transitions in Mosaic Landscapes: Smallholder's Flexibility in Land-Resource Use Decisions and Livelihood Strategies From World War II to the Present in the Amazon Estuary by Vogt, N.D., Pinedo Vasquez, M., Brondizio, E.S., Almeida, O.T., Rivero, S.

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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is one of the international bodies set up by the West after World War II. It is responsible for analysing and assessing the...…”
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SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES FROM THE EUROPEAN EXPERIENCE by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…The agricultural situation that many developing countries are currently experiencing has similarities to the situation found in Europe after World War II when there was only limited uptake of newly available technologies, despite the fact that food...…”
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Coffee and cocoa: the wheel of fortune turns for the international markets by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…1992 will go down in history as the worst year since World War II for the prices of coffee and cocoa, two major tropical agricultural exports. …”
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Keeping a Venerable Company Up-to-Date by Kirchhoff, Donald J.

“…At one point during World War II Navy service in the pacific, Donald J. Kirchholff ended up functioning as a commissary officer. …”
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Kvinnors frigörelse från familjen : en inblick i Japans familjestruktur och dess inverkan på befolkningsutvecklingen by Segersvärd, Lovisa

Building popular support for post-conflict constitutions: Lessons from Nepal by Kyle, Jordan, Resnick, Danielle

“…In early 2023, the United Nations announced that the world is facing the highest number of violent conflicts since World War II, with a majority of these being civil conflicts. …”
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History of public food interventions in Bangladesh by Haggblade, Steven

“…Since the 1940s, the Ministry of Food and its predecessor agencies have been the single largest purchaser, importer, stockholder, and distributor of foodgrains in Bangladesh. During World War II the government in British India laid the foundation for large-scale public marketing by arrogating large powers for itself: monopolies on foodgrain imports and tight control of procurement, movement, stockholding, and distribution. …”
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Regionalism: old and new, theory and practice by Burfisher, Mary E., Robinson, Sherman, Thierfelder, Karen

“…The world economy after World War II has become much more integrated. Eight successive rounds of negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) have resulted in significant global trade liberalization and there has been an accelerating trend toward regional integration in every part of the world. …”
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The potential of technology to meet world food needs in 2020 by Oram, Peter

“…A technological revolution after World War II in the agriculture of the industrialized countries initially made this achievement possible. …”
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Legal environment affecting the foodgrain trade by Rahman, Shamsur

“…This legislation encompassed all of British India, including the present-day countries of Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. During World War II the government continued to regulate the production, treatment, storage, movement, transport, distribution, disposal, acquisition, use, and consumption of many essential commodities, including foodgrains. …”
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International initiatives in Agricultural R&D: The changing fortunes of the CGIAR by Alston, Julian M., Dehmer, Steven, Pardey, Philip G.

“…Consequently, a strategy of agriculture-led development has been a critical element in aid and economic-development policy around the world since World War II. An important component of this strategy has been the progressive development of the system of international agricultural research centers (IARCs) known as the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR, or CG for short), in conjunction with and as a complement to the national agricultural research systems (NARSs) in developing countries.…”
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Determination of administered prices of foodgrains in India by Sarma, J. S.

“…Agricultural price policies and allied instruments evolved in India in the context of shortages and excess demand during World War II (India 1975). Procurement and distribution of major foodgrains were begun and statutory maximum prices were set, though not strictly enforced. …”
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Conclusion: old lesson and new directions in food policy by Ahmed, Raisuddin, Haggblade, Steven

“…The first descended amid the terrors of World War II, while the second followed in the wake of Bangladesh's brutal war of liberation. …”
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Agricultural and industrial development in Taiwan by Yu-Kang, Mao, Schive, Chi

“…At the outset of this period, Taiwan was just recovering from the ravages of World War II, and the economy was heavily dominated by the agricultural sector, which accounted for one-third of the net domestic product, more than half (56 percent) of total employment, and 92 percent of total exports. …”
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Development in Costa Rica: The key role of agriculture by Celis, Rafael, Lizano, Eduardo

“…Demographic and economic growth during the period after World War II was extremely rapid: between the periods 1950-52 and 1975-77 its population doubled, as did real per capita income. …”
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The “normal” normal: Supply and demand drivers over the next 10 years by Meyer, Seth, Glauber, Joseph W.

“…From 2010 to 2015, farmers saw the longest period of sustained above-average farm income since World War II and its immediate aftermath (Chart 1). In the United States, real net cash and net farm income were above their 1960–2017 average for six consecutive years. …”
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Harvesting hope for climate action and food systems in a grave new world by Schuttenbelt, Daan, Thorton, Philip, Dinesh, Dhanush, Loboguerrero, Ana Maria, Martinez-Baron, Deissy

“…Multilateralism, as epitomized by Western liberal hegemony and the concomitant intergovernmental agreements and institutions set up after World War II, is in crisis. Reductions in development funding coupled with inadequate climate action and limited progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals do not bode well for the challenges that food systems are increasingly facing. …”
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Between extractivism and peasant agriculture: differentiation of rural settlements in the Bolivian Amazon by Stoian, D., Henkemans, A.

“…A second rubber crisis after World War II, along with the Agrarian Reform in 1953, accelerated the disintegration of rubber estates and the foundation of independent communities. …”
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A quantitative analysis of trade policy responses to higher world agricultural commodity prices by Yu, T. Edward, Tokgoz, Simla, Wailes, Eric, Chavez, Eddie C.

“…From 2007 through mid-2008, world prices of major agricultural commodities, such as cereals, oilseeds, and their by-products, experienced unprecedented surges since World War II (Baffes and Haniotis 2010).1 The world food price indexes produced by the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations increased by 56 percent between 2006 and 2008, while cereals and vegetable oils price indexes doubled during the same period (FAO 2010). …”
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