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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Agricultural exports"”.
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The political ecology of nontraditional agricultural exports and an IPM project in Jamaica
… the singular reliance on pesticides to control agricultural pests. IPM involves the combination of chemical and non-chemical pest management practices to minimize pest damage to crops and reduce overall pesticide use. Although IPM has been promoted in both industrialized and Third World …
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An analysis of the causal relationship between agricultural exports and economic growth in Namibia
… paper investigates the Granger causality between agricultural exports and economic growth in Namibia over the period 1998 – 2016. The study used the simple pairwise Granger causality to determine the existence of such a relationship. An Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) test was used to test for …
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A trade simulation analysis of the impacts of United States trade barriers on selected Taiwanese agricultural exports
… was to evaluate how liberalization of agricultural markets, as emerged from the Uruguay round of negotiations, alter existing trade patterns. The study provides welfare estimations of full and partial trade liberalization in selected agricultural processed products of importance in …
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THE EFFECT OF AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS ON CROPPING PATTERNS/AREA UNDER CROPS, VIRTUAL LAND EXPORTS AND EXPORT-ORIENTED DISPLACEMENT OF GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS (GHGEs): 1961-2013
… investigates the impact of this globalisation on agricultural exports from developing countries and their impact on the greenhouse gas emissions (GHGEs). It does this by examining for two of the most populated countries from the three developing regions of the world (China and India from Asia, …
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The global governance of trade in agriculture: the role of tariff and non-tariff measures illustrated with an example of agricultural exports from South Africa to the EU
… importance to food security and employment, the agricultural sector is a source of international conflict and inherently vulnerable to shocks and insecurities in the past and present. Accordingly, nation-states view respective domesticagricultural sectors as an exception, which …
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Technical Regulations as Barriers to Agricultural Trade
… barrier that is becoming increasingly visible in agricultural trade disputes. A distinguishing feature of technical barriers is their legitimate use by governments to protect consumers' health, recognize citizen preferences in packaging and labeling, and protect the environment from the …
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International Agricultural Trade Costs and Non-Tariff Measures
This dissertation investigates how agricultural trade frictions, such as tariffs and non-tariff measures (NTMs), impact trade competitiveness and globalization in the agricultural sector. The dissertation consists of three chapters. The first chapter argues that agricultural trade cost evolution …
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Impact of Tenure and Uncertainty on the Choice of Optimal Soil Erosion Control Measures
… than 120 percent to meet a 132 percent rise in agricultural exports. This large rapid expansion in cropland acres generated concern that increase in soil erosion might impair the nation's long term food producing capability.
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An assessment of the impact on agricultural prices and output of anticipated versus unanticipated monetary variability
… for crops and livestock, and the real value of agricultural exports are evaluated. The distinction between anticipated and unanticipated components of money growth is motivated by the new classical rational expectations assertion that. anticipated money growth is discounted by agents and has no …
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International Trade Costs and the Intensive and Extensive Margins of Agricultural Trade
… the second paper, I examine the growth of U.S. agricultural trade in detail describing how U.S. agriculture and food trade has expanded along the margins. The first chapter introduces a relatively straightforward, yet empirically powerful, manipulation of the gravity equation. The gravity model …
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Comprendre les émissions de gaz à effet de serre (GES) du secteur Agriculture, Foresterie et autres Affectations des Terres (AFAT) en Côte d’Ivoire et au Brésil
… to increase in both countries, as did their agricultural exports. The study shows that the economic growth and emissions of the AFOLU sector are linked. However, an increase in agricultural exports does not lead to an increase in emissions from the entire AFOLT sector in both countries, even …
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Trump’s Foreign Policy, Authoritarian Populism and Democracy
… with tariff retaliation, especially against US agricultural exports, which harmed US workers in other parts of the economy. The US agricultural sector was so hard-hit that by the summer of 2018, the Trump administration announced a $12 billion subsidy to compensate some of the adversely affected …
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Gendered Production Roles and Integrated Pest Management in Three Jamaican Farming Communities
… (OIRD) at Virginia Tech, and the Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI) supported my research to uncover the socio-economic constraints to IPM adoption and to determine the amount of gendered participation in three rural Jamaica farming communities. The thesis …
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Groundwater depletion embodied in transfers and exports of the United States
… global food security by producing and exporting agricultural products all over the world. Irrigation from groundwater resources is increasingly important in agricultural production in the US. Groundwater withdrawals for irrigation have nearly tripled since records began in 1950, even accounting …
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Three Essays on Price Analysis of Summer Flounder and China's Soybean Imports
… Since 2000, soybeans have been the U.S. leading agricultural exports for bulk commodities. China is the largest importer of U.S. soybean exports. For China's soybean crushing industry, imported soybeans are inputs rather than final products and used to produce soybean meal and oil. A differential …
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Data capture and analysis for the Lincoln College Wool Measurement Service: A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of Bachelor of Agricultural Science (Honours) at Lincoln College
… is an important contributor to New Zealand's agricultural exports, it represents only 5 % of the world fibre market. Major competitors in this market include other natural fibres as well as synthetic fibres, all of which are becoming of increasingly high quality. Manufactured competing fibres …
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A Hive Mind: Bounded Rationality and Bees
… to pollinate flowers, allowing plants in both agricultural and ecological settings to reproduce, and our reliance on them is projected to increase, even as their numbers decline. Therefore, there is a critical need to identify and understand how the behavior of bees, and human behavior towards …
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From grassroots to global: unintended consequences of a Bolivian quinoa economy
… seek new buyers for their crops. I problematize agricultural development programs by drawing upon critical development theoretical framework, which allows me to recognize farmers for the role they played in finding a new market for their product. I use a Global Value Chain lens to expose positive …
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FACTORS AFFECTING STAKEHOLDER PERCEPTIONS AND INFLUENCE ON MANAGEMENT AGENDAS WITHIN THE TISZA (CENTRAL EUROPE) AND MISSISSIPPI RIVER BASINS (U.S.A.)
… that is heavily managed for agriculture and agricultural exports. This has led to water quality impairments both within the Upper Mississippi River Basin and contributed significantly to the large hypoxic zone of the Gulf of Mexico. Management responses have led to the formation of …
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