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Philippine rice trade liberalization: Impacts on agriculture and the economy, and alternative policy actions
Quantitative restriction (QR) on rice import has been a longstanding instrument of the Philippine government that regulated the importation of rice, protected rice farmers and supported the drive for rice self-sufficiency of the country.
Assessing recall bias and measurement error in high-frequency social data collection for human-environment research
Can systematic use of mobile phones transcend recall bias to create & maintain a true socioeconomic baseline that mirrors measurement collection in the natural sciences?
Welfare effects of weather variability: Multi-country evidence from Africa south of the Sahara
Climate change and weather variability pose serious threats to food and nutrition security as well as ecosystems, especially when livelihoods depend heavily on natural resources.
Farmers’ perceptions of crop pest severity in Nigeria are associated with landscape, agronomic and socio-economic factors
Adoption of the trinity of practices known commonly today as conservation agriculture (CA)—maintaining soil cover, reducing tillage, and enhancing soil nitrogen through legumes—is a critical process to the management of erosion in rural landscapes
The new normal?
Kenyan farmers’ livelihoods are closely linked to climate conditions.
From "May Contain" to "Does Contain"?
This note summarizes a study on the effects of implementing strict information requirements under Article 18.2(a) of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, examining the case of maize.
Global change
Global water and food security
Village seed systems and the biological diversity of millet crops in marginal environments of India
The study relates village seed systems to biological diversity of millet crops grown by farmers in the semi-arid lands of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, India.
Farmer management of production risk on degraded lands
This article investigates the effects of wheat genetic diversity and land degradation on risk and agricultural productivity in less favored production environments of a developing agricultural economy.
Farmer management of production risk on degraded lands
"This paper investigates the effects of wheat genetic diversity and land degradation on risk and agricultural productivity in less favored production environments of a developing agricultural economy.
Combining revealed and stated preference methods to assess the private value of agrobiodiversity in Hungarian home gardens
" Hungarian home gardens are small-scale farms managed by farm households using traditional management practices and family labor.
Policies for sustainable development in the hillsides of Honduras: a quantitative livelihoods approach
In this article, we use data for 376 households, 1,066 parcels, and 2,143 plots located in 95 villages in the hillside areas in Honduras to generate information needed by decision makers to assess the needs and opportunities for public investments
Recent trends in agricultural growth and food security in Eastern and Central Africa (ECA) have been discouraging.