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    Contractual arangements in agriculture (Northern and Central Luzon Component)

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2007
    This study aims to characterize and analyze the various contractual arrangements in selected agricultural commodities in parts of Central and Northern Luzon, Philippines.
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    Contractual arrangements in Philippine fisheries

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2007
    Economists have begun the quest for explanations of contractual choices in developing countries and especially for pervasiveness of informal credit and insurance arrangements and interlinkages observed in agricultural and fishing contracts.
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    The determination of contracts in agricultural economies

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2007
    This paper aims to analyse how contracts are determined and modified given diverse agricultural settings and to examine the implications of these changes with respect to their efficiency, distribution and sustainability.
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    Innovations in financing food security

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2010
    Food production will have to increase by 70% in 2050 to keep up with a global population that is projected to grow from 6 billion to 9 billion (UN, 2009). Given the physical and environmental constraints on increasing land and water use for food production and other economic activities, agricultural productivity will have to substantially improve to meet increasing demand for food.
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    Scenarios and options for productivity growth in Philippine agriculture: an application of the Agricultural Multimarket Model for Policy Evaluation (AMPLE)

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2010
    Sustaining and accelerating agricultural growth remains a development imperative in view of persistent rural poverty and emerging threats to food security. While growth can be achieved by expansion of agricultural area and input intensification, growth through improvement in productivity is a promising option. However, productivity growth appears to be a relatively low priority for policy.
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    Fiber crops program area research planning and prioritization

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2002
    The fiber crops industry is one of Philippines' major pillars in employment generation and foreign exchange earnings. However, recent trade developments and local production problems in the fiber crops industry might affect its long-term sustainability and viability.
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    Assessment of medium-term national action agenda for productivity (MNAAP) for the agriculture sector

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2002
    To attain productivity growth it is necessary to have proper diagnosis and analysis of the sources and causes of low or stagnant agricultural productivity. This paper highlights the major issues in agriculture, examines the MNAAP agenda on productivity and identify the remaining gaps.
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    Monitoring and evaluation of agricultural policy indicators

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2012
    For the Philippines, agricultural growth has been slow and erratic since the 1980s. Previous studies have argued that poor agricultural performance has been caused largely by weaknesses in the sector’s policy and institutional framework.
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    Rice prices and the National Food Authority

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2012
    The National Food Authority (NFA) is one of the most important policy instrumentalities of the Philippine government with respect to agricultural price policy and food security.
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    Credit subsidy in Philippine agriculture

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2012
    As the rural economy develops and transforms, opportunities for investments in farm enterprise and technological changes require complementary investments that increase demand for working and investment capital.

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