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Population policy and individual choice: a theoretical investigation por Nerlove, Marc, Razin, Assaf, Sadka, Efraim

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Egypt's food subsidy and rationing system: A description por Alderman, Harold, von Braun, Joachim, Sakr, Sakr Ahmed

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Conclusions and microeconomic research priorities: A literature review por Alderman, Harold, Mergos, George, Slade, Roger

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Rice buffer stocks for Indonesia: a first approximation. por Hedley, Douglas D., Workshop on Rice Policy in Southeast Asian Countries

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Input and Output marketing Systens: A Nigerian Case por Olayide, S. O., Idachaba, Francis Sulemanu

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Rural poverty, agricultural production, and prices: a reexamination por Ahluwalia, Montek S.

“…Dharm Narain found that rural poverty is not only inversely related to the level of output per head of the rural population, as established in Ahluwalia (1978a), but also positively related to the level of prices.…”
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Poverty, agrarian structure, and policy options: a note por Vyas, V. S.

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A 1992 social accounting matrix (SAM) for Tanzania por Wobst, Peter

“…A SAM is a square matrix consisting of row and column accounts that represent the different sectors, agents, and institutions of an economy at the desired level of disaggregation. …”
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A 1991 social accounting matrix (SAM) for Zimbabwe por Thomas, Marcelle, Bautista, Romeo M.

“…Its construction is based on a three-step process: (1) building a macro SAM that presents the aggregative features of the Zimbabwean economy and serves as a control matrix for the micro SAM; (2) disaggregation into a complete but unbalanced micro SAM; and (3) balancing the disaggregated and complete micro SAM using the cross-entropy approach. …”
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A brief for fisheries policy research in developing countries por Ahmed, Mahfuzuddin, Delgado, Christopher L., Sverdrup-Jensen, Sten

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Adjustment with a human face: Evidence from Jamaica por Handa, Sudhanshu, King, Damien

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A spatial analysis of child nutrition in West Africa por Legg, Christopher

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How to pitch a livestock science project for funding por International Livestock Research Institute

“…Facing a panel of judges, seven teams of ILRI staff compete for funding as they pitch their livestock research project ideas. …”
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Launch of a Nigerian agricultural policy researchers network por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…This culminated in the development of a central database. The need to move from a database of agricultural policy researchers experts to a functional network of agricultural policy experts led to the launch of an Agricultural Policy Researchers Network. …”
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Constraints to increasing agricultural productivity in Nigeria: A review por Phillip, Dayo, Nkonya, Ephraim M., Pender, John L., Oni, Omobowale Ayoola

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Food price stabilization policies in a globalizing world por Rashid, Shahidur

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A smooth nonparametric conditional quantile frontier estimator por Martins-Filho, Carlos, Yao, Feng

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Dietary implications of supermarket development: A global perspective por Hawkes, Corinna

“…These decisions influence food accessibility, availability, prices and desirability, which in turn influence the decisions consumers make about food. Based on a comprehensive literature review, this article finds that the dietary implications are both positive – supermarkets can make a more diverse diet available and accessible to more people – and negative – supermarkets can reduce the ability of marginalised populations to purchase a high‐quality diet, and encourage the consumption of energy‐dense, nutrient‐poor highly‐processed foods. …”
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Facilitating knowledge sharing: A step-by-step process por Gichuki, Leah, Lukuyu, Ben A., Kiptoo, Emmaculate, Maiyo, Nathan

“…Climate change adaptation is a pressing global challenge that requires effective knowledge sharing at local levels. …”
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New wheat breeding paradigms for a warming climate por Wei Xiong, Reynolds, Matthew P., Montes, Carlo, Crossa, José, Snapp, Sieglinde, Akin, Beyhan, Keser, Mesut, Ozdemir, Fatih, Huihui Li, He Zhonghu, Daowen Wang, Feng Chen

“…Plant breeding has been successful in adapting crops worldwide with one of the latest challenges being adaption to warmer days and nights. Taking wheat as a case study, here we show current elite nurseries express a range of levels of heat adaptation. …”
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