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Satsning på biobränsle i Uganda och Kenya - möjlighet eller risk by Ekdahl, Jan

“…In the African countries Uganda and Kenya with their partly dry areas and where people are starving due to lack of food is the question of how to handle bioenergy development an important topic. Researchers, economists, politicians and the agricultural sector has different opinions if growing crops for energy- and biofuel production can coexist or not with food production. …”
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Determinants of access to and intensity of formal credit: Evidence from a survey of rural households in Eastern India by Aditya, K. S., Jha, Girish K., Sonkar, Vinay Kumar, Saroj, Sunil, Singh, K. M., Singh, R. K. P.

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El valor de la polinización: un análisis económico del servicio de polinización en la producción de arándano del Litoral Argentino by Benito Amaro, Ignacio, Cavigliasso, Pablo

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COVID-19 impacts on global food systems and household welfare by Swinnen, Johan, Vos, Rob

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Modeling recreation demand for British forests: An application of an endogenously stratified and truncated log-normal distribution by Englin, J., Gelan, Ayele, Pang, A.

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The impact of policy liberalization on smallholder peri-urban dairy producers at Nyeri, Kenya by Staal, Steven J., Shapiro, Barry I.

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Cassava genetic improvement: Theory and practice by Hershey, Clair H.

“…It will also provide support for those many research programs that collaborate with breeders, such as physiologists, agronomists, soil scientists, plant pathologists, entomologists, economists and social scientists, among others.…”
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Beneficiary views on cash and in-kind payments: Evidence from Ethiopia’s productive safety net programme by Hirvonen, Kalle, Hoddinott, John F.

“…Economists often default to the assumption that cash is always preferable to an in-kind transfer. …”
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Food systems for human and planetary health: Economic perspectives and challenges by Fan, Shenggen, Headey, Derek D., Rue, Christopher, Thomas, Timothy S.

“…This review also points to important knowledge gaps that economists and other social scientists must address to contribute to the radical transformation of food systems.…”
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Barrières commerciales: Et si on parlait de la corruption? by Bouët, Antoine, Cissé, Brahima, Traoré, Fousseini

“…Les économistes travaillant sur les barrières au commerce international s’intéressent beaucoup depuis une dizaine d’années aux barrières administratives, appelées parfois par euphémisme tracasseries administratives (« red tape » en anglais) et à la corruption des douaniers. …”
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Beneficiary views on cash and in-kind payments: Evidence from Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme by Hirvonen, Kalle, Hoddinott, John F.

“…Economists often default to the assumption that cash is always preferable to an in-kind transfer. …”
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From bad to worse: Poverty impacts of food availability responses to weather shocks in Zambia by Koo, Jawoo, Mamun, Abdullah, Martin, Will

“…Since Amartya Sen’s famous work on Poverty and Famines, economists have understood that policy responses to food market shocks should be guided by changes in households’ incomes and access to food, rather than by overall food availability. …”
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Payment modality preferences: Evidence from Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme by Hirvonen, Kalle, Hoddinott, John F.

“…Economists typically default to the assumption that cash is always preferable to an in-kind transfer. …”
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Spatial equilibrium model for AGRODEP by Bouët, Antoine, Metivier, Jeanne

“…The spatial equilibrium model is a multi-region partial equilibrium model which links producers and consumers from different locations. It allows economists to examine the global economic and trade consequences of diverse trade policies by determining their effects on market, trade and welfare variables. …”
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Quantitative methods for policy analysis course notes by Howitt, Richard E., Msangi, Siwa, MacEwan, Duncan

“…Historically economists have relied on econometric (or statistical) methods to estimate parameters from observed data. …”
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Measuring and capturing forest values issues for the decision-maker by Gregersen, Hans, Lundren, A., Kengen, S., Byron, R.N.

“…Yet, many of the benefits are global and lie outside the context of local or national decisions. They are what economists call “externalities” for the decision-makers. …”
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Research Evaluation in the CGIAR: Needs and Options by Alston, Juian, Pardey, Philip G.

“…Paper commissioned by the Task Force on Impact Assessment organized by the Public Awareness and Resource Mobilization Committee (PARC) and prepared by economists from the University of California at Davis, and IFPRI, and representing their personal views.The paper addresses the needs for and objectives of impact assessment (both ex ante and ex post) in the CGIAR; the range of useful approaches; the roles and existing efforts of entities within the CGIAR; future needs not now addressed, the approaches and methods that might apply, and their likely costs; and finally key principles and some options for institutionalizing impact assessment within the CGIAR. …”
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Value chain prioritization and development in India: Are national and state-level priorities aligned? by Pal, Barun Deb, Pauw, Karl, Thurlow, James

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Agri-food value chain revolutions in low- and middle-income countries by Barrett, Christopher B., Reardon, Thomas, Swinnen, Johan, Zilberman, David

“…This paper offers an integrated, structured, empirical narrative of how and why AVC revolutions occur in developing countries, the impacts of those changes, and the abundant economic research opportunities these structural changes afford economists. (JEL L14, L81, O13, O33, Q12, Q13, Q17)…”
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Seizing the momentum to reshape agriculture for nutrition by Fan, Shenggen, Yosef, Sivan, Pandya-Lorch, Rajul

“…Up until the 1980s, most economists still focused solely on strategies to produce more energy to meet consumer demand, under the assumption that nutrition did not play a role in consumer preferences. …”
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