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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"food imports"”.
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Food Imports as a Hindrance to Food Security and Sustainable development: The Cases of Nigeria and Senegal
… acceptance of an individual’s right to adequate food and nutrition, and the state’s obligation to ensure that all its citizens are free from hunger, 805 million or one in nine people around the world today are still chronically malnourished; the majority live in developing countries. African …
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Processed Food Exports from Developing Countries: Patterns, Determinants, Policy Issues
ABSTRACT Over the past few decades, food products exported in processed form ('processed food') have expanded faster than traditional (unprocessed) food in world agricultural trade. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the increasing importance of processed food, a high-value set of …
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Processed Food Exports from Developing Countries: Patterns, Determinants, Policy Issues
ABSTRACT Over the past few decades, food products exported in processed form ('processed food') have expanded faster than traditional (unprocessed) food in world agricultural trade. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the increasing importance of processed food, a high-value set of …
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War and Agriculture: Three Decades of Agricultural Land Use and Land Cover Change in Iraq
… and relates those changes to effects on food security. The results indicated that cultivated area changed little between the Iran-Iraq War (1980 to 1988) and the Gulf War (1990 to 1991), increased by 20 percent (from 1.72 to 2.04 Mha) during the period of United Nations sanctions (1990 to …
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The social production of community garden space: Case studies of Boston, Massachusetts and Havana, Cuba
… Havana, Cuba, the growing of food in urban plots helped the country weather the crisis that resulted from the loss of food imports after the collapse of the Soviet Union. During the early 1990s, the number of gardens cultivated by individuals, families, and organized groups in …
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Cabotage: The effects of an external non-tariff measure on the competitiveness of agribusiness in Puerto Rico
… Could an anti-competitive measure affect the food vulnerability of a SIDS? This research examines the effects of an external non-tariff measure (NTM) on Puerto Rico’s (PR) agribusinesses. It explores the effects of a maritime cabotage regulation (US Jones Act) on the affordability and …
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Cabotage: The effects of an external non-tariff measure on the competitiveness of agribusiness in Puerto Rico
… Could an anti-competitive measure affect the food vulnerability of a SIDS? This research examines the effects of an external non-tariff measure (NTM) on Puerto Rico’s (PR) agribusinesses. It explores the effects of a maritime cabotage regulation (US Jones Act) on the affordability and …
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ANALYZING THE UNITED STATES IMPORTS OF ORGANIC AND NON-ORGANIC COFFEE AND TEA
The US market of organic food is expanding increasingly. Organic food imports percentage out of the total food imports is on the raise. This reflects a big demand on this kind of food that need to be met. One vital piece of information is that the US does not produce many organic food products due …
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Quantifying China's carrying capacity : using optimization to explore sustainable food production
… of carrying capacity provides insight into the food security of the study region as well as the stress on the environmental system; in addition, this methodology can be used to assess the carrying capacity under a variety of policy interventions such as increasing yields, changing diets, or …
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Wartime agricultural policy in Canada : an analysis of agricultural adjustment to wartime demand with particular reference to state intervention and control in the Second World War
… at last relieve this country of troublesome food surpluses. Although it was originally expected that Canadian wheat would be among the vital weapons of war, the capitulation of a number of European Allies to the Axis Powers in 1940 meant that the United Kingdom would be the only significant …
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Estimating hydrologic fluxes, crop water use, and agricultural land use in China from multiple data sources
… become more resource-intensive, the demand for food - and the land and water necessary to produce it - will continue to increase. Quantitative data about water availability, water use, and agricultural land use are needed to develop sustainable water and agricultural planning and policies. …
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Point-of-use soil diagnostics : an actionable information system for resource constrained farmers
… mid-1960s, India came to the brink of an acute food crisis in the midst of heavy dependence on food imports. A period of rapid agricultural modernization that followed, known as Green Revolution, transformed India from a net importer of food into an exporter. Although an appropriate response for …
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Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning for the Risk-Based Management of Agricultural Supply Chains
Safe, healthy and resilient food supply chains are essential to ensuring the livelihood and well-being of humans and societies, as well as local and global economies. However, the ability to provide and sustain access to nutritious and safe food continues to be a major concern and a challenge for …
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An analysis of some aspects of Public Law 480
… than would be possible in the absence of the food aid. Food aid through P. L. 480 can increase the rate of economic development in the receiving country by increasing the rate of capital formation and by increasing the efficiency of the use of capital. It increases the rate of capital …
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The policies and practice of British colonial rule regarding agriculture in lower Egypt 1882-1922
… one hand,and the production levels of cotton and foodcrops on the other. Thus there was, for economic reasons, more concentration on the production of cotton by the fellaheen than on the production of foodcrops for export, to the extent that food imports of grain commenced at the turn of the …
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The policies and practice of British colonial rule regarding agriculture in lower Egypt 1882-1922
… one hand,and the production levels of cotton and foodcrops on the other. Thus there was, for economic reasons, more concentration on the production of cotton by the fellaheen than on the production of foodcrops for export, to the extent that food imports of grain commenced at the turn of the …
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Consumer ethnocentrism and conspicuousness of South African imports in Mozambique
… of consumer ethnocentrism and conspicuousness of imports on consumer reactions toward South African products in Mozambique. Purpose The purpose of the study is threefold: (1) to indicate those groups of Mozambican consumers who are more ethnocentric and who see greater conspicuousness in South …
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Three essays on food security and dietary diversity
The concern for food security is a cornerstone in the development process for every country. This dissertation is examining food security from three perspectives. First, chapter one explores the most important economic and developmental factors leading to food security and combines these factors in …