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- Input subsidies and improved maize varieties in Malawi: -What can we learn from the impacts in a drought year?
- S. Holden; J. Mangisoni / Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2013
- After six years with a large scale Farm Input Subsidy Program that enhanced national and household food security high costs resulted in a cut-back of the program in 2011/12 at the same time as the country was hit by a more seriou...
- Input Subsidies and Demand for Improved Maize: Relative Prices and Household Heterogeneity Matter!
- S. Holden / Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2013
- This study uses simple non-separable farm household models calibrated to household, market, farming and policy context conditions in Central and Southern Malawi. The models are used to simulate how household characteristics, design an...
- The 2010 Global Consultations on Farmers' Rights: Results from an Email-based Survey
- R. Andersen; T. Winge / Farmers' Rights, 2011
- This report presents the results of the e-mail based survey on Farmers? Rights. The consultations were organized in response to Resolution 6/2009 of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food an...
- Global Consultations on Farmers' Rights in 2010
- R. Andersen; T. Winge / Farmers' Rights, 2011
- This report presents the results and proceedings of the Global Consultations on Farmers. Rights carried out in 2010. Consisting of both an e-mail based survey and an international consultation conference with regional components held ...
- Workshop on the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: Benefit–sharing in the Multilateral System
- G. Evjen / Farmers' Rights, 2010
- This report summarizes the presentations, discussions and recommendations of a workshop, co-hosted by the Indonesian Center for Agricultural Biotechnology and Genetic Resources Research and Development, Ministry of Agriculture and the...
- Drought and fertilizer use in Ethiopia
- G. Gebregziabher (ed); S. Holden (ed) / Academic Journals, 2011
- The northern Ethiopian highland in general and the Tigray region in particular is a drought prone area where agricultural production risk is prevalent. Moisture stress is a limiting factor for improved agricultural input mainly fertil...
- Malawian farmers' willingness to allocate funds for input purchase at harvest time
- S.T. Holden (ed); R. Lunduka (ed) / Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2011
- Malawi has implemented a large-scale agricultural input subsidy program since 2005 after a period with severe food shortages and the program has contributed to increased food availability, higher real wages, economic growth and povert...
- Land rights of rural communties in Angola
- E. Jul-Larsen; B.E. Bertelsen / Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2011
- A new Land Act introduced in Angola in 2004 demonstrates a genuine interest in the protection of the customary land rights of rural communities and underlines rural communities’ rights to their land. However, the documentation o...
- The caste system and land rights in Nepal
- J.P. Aryal and Stein T. Holden; S.T. Holden / Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2011
- The caste system is an intricate part of the institutional structure as well as class formation, political instability and conflicts in Nepal. The most severely discriminated group in the caste system is the Dalits, the so-called &ldq...
- Caste and land issues in Nepal
- J.P. Aryal / Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2011
- This study investigates the issues related to land tenancy transactions, land productivity and land-related investment by farm households, with specific focus on caste discrimination. This study also explores the factors influencing t...
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