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The earth's environmental woes: is agriculture part of the problem or part of the solution? (Featured Article)
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December, 1994
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The earth's environmental woes: is agriculture part of the problem or part of the solution? (Featured Article)
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Reports & ResearchJanuary, 1995Pakistan, AsiaA food demand system is proposed, based on demand for energy, variety, and tastes of foods. By specifying utility as an explicit function of these characteristics, the entire matrix of demand elasticities can be derived for n foods and one nonfood from prior specification of just four elasticities, while avoiding any assumption of separability between foods. This framework can explain why poorest groups often are most price-responsive, but also can account for highest price-responsiveness by middle income groups.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 1994Asia
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Journal Articles & BooksDecember, 1994In this paper, the main socio-economic concepts and their applications in the study of soil degradation are reviewed under three broad headings: soil conservation as an input in agricultural production; topsoil as a natural resource somewhere between being renewable and nonrenewable; and the effects of dealing with common property resources. The treatment of soil conservation as an input has involved the demonstration of damage functions and a study of factors influencing the adoption of soil conservation.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1994Italy, Cameroon, Zimbabwe
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January, 1995Mexico, Latin America and the CaribbeanBy and large, it appears that the goals of agricultural reform are being met in Mexico. But measures such as decoupling income supports and price supports or reorienting research and extension could help farmers who cannot afford access to machinery and purchased inputs and services.Lopez, Nash, and Stanton report the results of a study of Mexican farm households using 1991 survey data and a smaller resurvey of some of the same households in 1993.One study goal was to empirically examine the relationship between assets and the output supply function.
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Policy Papers & BriefsDecember, 1994Southern Asia, Eastern Asia, Africa, India, Bangladesh, ChinaA large body of literature makes the argument that commercialization of agriculture has mainly negative effects on the employment, incomes, food production and consumption, health, and nutrition of the poor. In Commercialization of Agriculture, Economic Development, and Nutrition, Joachim von Braun and Eileen Kennedy find that the conclusion that commercialization of agriculture is generally bad for nutrition is flawed.
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