Resultados de búsqueda - "economist"

Opportunities for orphan crops: Expected economic benefits from biotechnology por Zambrano, Patricia, Wood-Sichra, Ulrike, Ruhinduka, Remidius D., Phillip, Dayo, Nin-Pratt, Alejandro, Komen, John, Kikulwe, Enoch Mutebi, Falck-Zepeda, José B., Dzanku, Fred M., Chambers, Judith A.

“…To address this challenge, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in collaboration with local economists analyzed the expected economic benefits to farmers and consumers from the adoption of GM crops in 5 sub-Saharan African countries. …”
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Uncertainty in the drylands: Rethinking in/formal insurance from pastoral East Africa por Johnson, Leigh, Mohamed, Tahira Shariff, Scoones, Ian, Taye, Masresha

“…While the political embrace of insurance has been cause for concern amongst those who fear insurance will undermine embedded coping mechanisms and moral economies, economists have puzzled over low insurance adoption rates amongst target populations. …”
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Escalation of real wages in Bangladesh: Is it the beginning of structural transformation? por Zhang, Xiaobo, Rashid, Shahidur, Kaikaus, Ahmad, Ahmed, Akhter

“…However, both theories and empirics of wage determination in Bangladesh, and elsewhere in developing countries, have intrigued economists for decades. The neoclassical theories, where labor demand and wages are determined by the marginal physical product, cannot explain stable wages amid seemingly unlimited supply of workers and massive involuntary unemployment in developing countries like Bangladesh. …”
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Economic growth, convergence and agricultural economics por Martin, Will

“…This paper aims to identify the key ways in which the changes in rich and poor country growth rates matter for agricultural economists, as a basis for formulating better research agendas. …”
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Economic growth, convergence, and agricultural economics por Martin, Will

“…This article aims to identify the key ways in which the changes in rich and poor country growth rates matter for agricultural economists, as a basis for formulating better research agendas. …”
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Varietal integrity, damage abatement, and productivity: Evidence from the cultivation of Bt cotton in Pakistan por Ma, Xingliang, Smale, Melinda, Spielman, David J., Zambrano, Patricia, Nazli, Hina, Zaidi, Fatima

“…Although all measures reduce damage from pests, the biophysical indicators have the largest effect, and official approval has the weakest. For applied economists, findings highlight the importance of getting the data right concerning Bt. …”
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Economic impacts of climate change in Syria por Breisinger, Clemens, Zhu, Tingju, Al-Riffai, Perrihan, Nelson, Gerald C., Robertson, Richard D., Funes, José, Verner, Dorte

“…There is broad consensus among scientists that climate change is altering weather patterns around the world. However, economists are only beginning to develop comprehensive tools that allow for the quantification of such weather changes on countries' economies and people. …”
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Do health investments improve agricultural productivity? Lessons from agricultural household and health research por McNamara, Paul E., Ulimwengu, John M., Leonard, Kenneth L.

“…Determining the causality between health measures and both income and labor productivity remains an ongoing challenge for economists. This review paper aims to answer the question: Does improved population health lead to higher rates of agricultural growth? …”
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AIDS, poverty, and hunger: Challenges and responses por Gillespie, Stuart

“…As highlights from the conference, the chapters in this book amply illustrate the diversity of activity and the imperative for interdisciplinary work in this new field. Economists, nutritionists, anthropologists, health specialists, and other development professionals have approached the issue from different angles, often using innovative methods, to generate important new findings.…”
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Measuring the economic impacts of transgenic crops in developing agriculture during the first decade: Approaches, findings, and future directions por Smale, Melinda, Zambrano, Patricia, Gruère, Guillaume P., Falck-Zepeda, José B., Matuschke, Ira, Horna, Daniela, Nagarajan, Latha, Yerramareddy, Indira, Jones, Hannah

“…A comparatively minor segment of this literature consists of studies conducted by agricultural economists to measure the impact of transgenic crop varieties on farmers, the size and distribution of the economic benefits from adopting them, consumer attitudes toward products made with transgenic ingredients, and implications of the use of transgenic crops for international trade. …”
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Parables: applied economics literature about the impact of genetically engineered crop varieties in developing economies por Smale, Melinda, Zambrano, Patricia, Falck-Zepeda, José B., Gruère, Guillaume P.

“…A comparatively minor segment of this literature consists of studies conducted by agricultural economists to measure the farm-level impact of transgenic crop varieties, the size and distribution of the economic benefits from adopting them, consumer attitudes toward GE products, and implications for international trade. …”
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Modeling farmers’ decisions on integrated soil nutrient management in sub-Saharan Africa: a multinomial logit analysis in Cameroon por Nkamleu, G.B.

“…It is important that technical research on these integrated soil nutrient management options be guided by consideration of the factors that determine farmers’ decisions to combine organic and inorganic nutrients. Economists investigating consumer demand have accumulated considerable evidence showing that the observed decision choice on an agricultural technology is the end result of a complex set of inter-technology preference comparisons made by farmers. …”
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Separability, spillovers, and segmented markets: Evidence from dairy in India por Narayanan, Sudha, Negi, Digvijay Singh, Gupta, Tanu

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“Pivoting” by food industry firms to cope with COVID‐19 in developing regions: E‐commerce and “copivoting” delivery intermediaries por Reardon, Thomas, Heiman, Amir, Lu, Liang, Nuthalapati, Chandra S. R., Vos, Rob, Zilberman, David

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Understanding rural household behavior: Beyond boserup and becker por Doss, Cheryl R., Quisumbing, Agnes R.

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Trade, policy, and food security por Smith, Vincent H., Glauber, Joseph W.

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Agriculture–nutrition linkages with heterogeneous, unobserved returns and costs: Insights from Tajikistan por Takeshima, Hiroyuki, Akramov, Kamiljon T., Park, Allen, Ilyasov, Jarilkasin, Liu, Yanyan, Ergasheva, Tanzila

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The global effects of widespread adoption of climate smart agriculture por De Pinto, Alessandro

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Land policy and the youth bulge’ in Ethiopia: How social and economic transformations are scrutinizing the status quo por Ghebru, Hosaena

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Foreign direct investment, globalized agri-food value chains and transformation por Saroj, Sunil, Veeramani, Choorikkad, Roy, Devesh, Kamar, Abul, Pradhan, Mamata

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