Agricultural Policy And Wide View Of Achieving Food Security Indicators About Syrian Agricultural Economic

Agricultural Aid and Food Security in Africa

This paper investigates the effects of agricultural aid on food security in African countries during the the 1990 to 2012 period. Defining food security as increases in agricultural productivity and controlling for a large number of covariates, we find that agricultural aid, at the aggregate level, aid to the agricultural sector has positive and statistically significant effect on food security...

Ancient Health Skeletal Indicators of Agricultural and Economic Intensification

Achieving Inclusive Agricultural Growth

Ghana is to achieve the goal of becoming a middle income country by 2015. Despite its impressive progress in economic growth and poverty reduction, Ghana—like many other African countries—has had rather limited success in increasing smallholder agricultural production by enhancing productivity and competitiveness. Why? Like other countries, Ghana has to meet three challenges in selecting and im...

Agricultural and Economy-Wide Effects of European Enlargement: Modelling the Common Agricultural Policy

The economic impact of extending the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to the Central and Eastern European countries has become a major issue in the European enlargement debate. This paper addresses this issue by providing an assessment of the economy-wide effects of European enlargement using a global general equilibrium model where special attention is given to modelling the instruments of the...

The role of urban agriculture in increasing agricultural productivity and food security

Today, the world is facing several problems, including population growth, urbanization, food demand increasing, depletion of water resources, and environmental degradation. "Urban agriculture" as part of urban activities is an opportunity to make positive changes in the world food system and produce quality food. Urban agriculture is a new solution to deal with environmental, social, and econom...