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ESA Working Paper 12-05
Document de travail, 2012
Price uncertainty is a major constraint to a sustained increase in staple food production. This paper reviews the trends and patterns of addressing this age-old problem over the course of the past several decades. Farmers...
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Livre/chapitre d’un livre, 2012
Les professionnels de la sécurité alimentaire réalisent de plus en plus qu'ils doivent communiquer de manière stratégique pour que leur travail ait un impact maximal. Alors que la plupart des organisations ont investi massivement dans...
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Les discussions en ligne peuvent faire la différence
Livre/chapitre d’un livre, 2012
Cette publication spéciale illustre les débats les plus significatifs tenus au cours des dernières années dans le cadre du Forum FSN sur des questions centrales et sur les tendances liées à la sécurité alimentaire, la...
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ESA Working Paper 12-04
Document de travail, 2012
The paper reviews the existing literature on fertilizer subsidies in sub-Saharan Africa and provides a coherent analysis of both the theoretical underpinnings and the results – or outcomes, when available – of existing fertilizer subsidy...
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Produit d’information, 2012
EU legislation provides for monitoring (ex-post assessment) and reporting on the socio-economic implications of the deliberate release and placing on the market of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) of...
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ESA Working Paper 12-03
Document de travail, 2012
Current UN projections indicate that world population could increase by 2.25 billion people from today’s levels, reaching 9.15 billion by 2050. At the global level, agricultural production and consumption in 2050 are projected to be...
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ESA Working Paper 12-02
Document de travail, 2012
Climate change is projected to change production conditions for agricultural producers globally. In the developing world, most of the projected changes will result in a reduction of agricultural productivity, with concomitant reductions in food security....
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Articles de presse, 2012
In this paper, we examine whether the causes and patterns of Mexican rural female migration differ significantly from rural male migration. A number of hypotheses are discussed to explain why female migration may differ from...
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Articles de presse, 2012
This paper provides new estimates of area planted to the rice (Oryza sativa L.)–wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) rotation in China by combining the results obtained from two methodologies. One methodology uses official statistics at the...
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Articles de presse, 2012
Non-linear adjustment towards long-run equilibrium in the sugar-ethanol-oil nexus in Brazil is examined. We develop generalised bivariate error correction models that allow for cointegration between variables, where dynamic adjustments are potentially non-linear functions of the...
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