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It creates an increasing disconnection between what farmers produce and what urban households consume
They find that only when cell phone services help traders reach markets further away does improved infrastructure raise local prices, benefiting producers. For teff in Ethiopia, Vendercasteelen et al. show that proximity to cities increases the price received by farmers as well as the use of fertilizer and improved seed, resulting in higher yields, especially proximity…
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Food sovereignty is a dynamic political framework that espouses local control over food systems
Explanations of the socioeconomic element of the transition from foraging through mixed economies to those that take up full-time agriculture will entail not only marginal analysis and opportunity costs but also risk, discounting, economies of scale, and transaction costs. We know this because the spatial form and temporal scale of agricultural production fundamentally change the…
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Changes in the external economy for agricultural commodities have paralleled those in domestic markets
They provide suggestive evidence that the advice given by dealers is motivated at least partly by their concerns about how it will affect their reputation and future business opportunities. This offers one explanation as to why dealers advise farmers about a new seed variety even when prices do not give them a direct incentive to do…
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Regulated agricultural sources will be provided a financial incentive to aid in compliance
As reported by Grossi in the Fresno Bee , “Caleb Schneider, 16, of Hanford, said he has asthma, and he wants to see every effort made to clean the air. ‘When you can’t breathe’, he said, ‘nothing else matters.’” This narrative depicts the agriculture industry as a villain deserving of public policy burdens. The numbers and…
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The nightmare was in the main the same encountered by all refugees fleeing Germany and the occupied countries
This trip is a wonderful experience.” However, Richard Symansky and Nancy Burley have pointed out that the property at Sosúa was not first on a list of areas recommended for colonization, in spite of Rosen and Rosenberg’s glowing reports. Symanski and Burley continue to list the physical deficiencies of the Sosúa property, citing its “low…
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Agricultural water-quality management is an excellent case study because it involves all three principles of sustainability
When examining the two communities perceived disadvantages of university-industry research collaborations there is a much greater disparity. In general both groups perceived substantial advantages. However, the research partners held significantly different perspectives on 8 of 10 of the disadvantages. Scores for all the items were low when compared to scores on the advantage items, but…
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Other small-scale farmers grow only one crop per season of squash or other row crops
By 2009, the farm labor force had few SAWS . Thus, to maintain a large and flexible agricultural worker force, a steady stream of new, young workers is required— whether it be from a porous border, temporary work permits, or a perpetual program of earned legalization through farm work.Multiple aspects of intensive agriculture adversely alter…
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Agricultural income is also difficult to measure and to constrain to fit the concept of a calendar year
Most of the literature that cautions against the importance given to agriculture for poverty alleviation however relates to a different argument: while the relatively strong poverty impact of agricultural growth seems to be a fairly robust result, the cost of investing to obtain a given growth is far higher in agriculture than in other sectors,…
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Lower natural gas prices directly lead to lower wholesale electricity prices
However, these long-run changes would not advantage California agriculture versus the rest of the nation. Aside from the direct impact that low natural gas prices will have on the agricultural sector, there will also be two major indirect impacts. The first stems from the impact natural gas prices have on fertilizer prices. Natural gas is…
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This core intervention finding was randomly assigned at the sub-county level
Farmers and CAs could either post to Kudu through an AgriNet agent, or they could engage independently on the platform. In practice, almost all farmers who sold on the platform did so directly, rather than engaging in AgriNet brokered deals. Similarly, CAs, who were recruited from pools of existing traders in the area, operated almost…