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    Assessment on the use of marginal areas for cultivation of feedstock for biofuel

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2011
    The Philippines has made a major push toward development of biofuel, enacting biofuels mandates and subsidies by the Biofuels Law. To maintain food security, biofuels policies currently restrict feedstock production to marginal lands. This raises its own issues related to commercial viability, small farmer livelihood, and environmental sustainability.
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    Does poor rural infrastructure constrain agricultural productivity?

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2011
    It has been hypothesised that rural infrastructure raises agricultural productivity, which in turn induces growth in the rural areas and brings about higher agricultural wages and improved opportunities for nonfarm labor. What does the literature say about the effect of infrastructure on growth and in particular, on agricultural productivity?
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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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    Impacts of natural disasters on agriculture, food security, and natural resources and environment in the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2012
    In Southeast Asia, the Philippines is among the hardest hit by natural disasters, particularly typhoons, floods and droughts. These natural disasters have negative economic and environmental impacts on the affected areas and the people who live there.
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    Results of the 2009 Survey of Innovation Activities (SIA)

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2011
    In this paper, results of the 2009 Survey of Innovation Activities are described and discussed. The term innovation, traditionally associated with research and development, has evolved to mean the implementation of new or significantly improved goods and services, production process, marketing, or organizational methods in a firm.
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    Multimarket modeling of agricultural supply when crop land is a quasi-fixed input: a note

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2011
    Modeling of crop supply frequently adopts separate treatment of area and yield variables. The advantage of this approach is that it conveniently imposes the property of land being a quasi-fixed factor, at least on the aggregate. Given an agricultural land frontier, total supply of land may be fixed in the short run.
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    Philippines: food security versus agricultural exports?

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2011
    This paper tries to characterize the current situation in the Philippines with respect to the goal of the Aquino administration to be food secure and self-sufficient in rice by 2016.
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    The impact of infrastructure on agricultural productivity

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2012
    Recent literature indicates the significant role played by rural infrastructure in improving agricultural productivity in developing economies.

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