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The rice economies : technology and development in Asian societies.
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ISBN: 0631169431 0631148779 9780631148777 9780631169437 Year: 1989 Publisher: Oxford Blackwell

The changing public role in a rice economy approaching self-sufficiency : the case of Bangladesh.
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ISBN: 0896291014 Year: 1994 Publisher: Washington IFPRI


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Deep roots : rice farmers in West Africa and the African diaspora
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ISBN: 9780253352194 0253352193 9786612238291 1282238299 0253002966 9780253002969 9781282238299 6612238291 Year: 2008 Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press,

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Mangrove rice farming on West Africa's Rice Coast was the mirror image of tidewater rice plantations worked by enslaved Africans in 18th-century South Carolina and Georgia. This book reconstructs the development of rice-growing technology among the Baga and Nalu of coastal Guinea, beginning more than a millennium before the transatlantic slave trade. It reveals a picture of dynamic pre-colonial coastal societies, quite unlike the static, homogenous pre-modern Africa of previous scholarship. From its examination of inheritance, innovation, and borrowing, Deep Roots fashions a theory of cultural change that encompasses the diversity of communities, cultures, and forms of expression in Africa and the African diaspora.


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The Nigerian Rice Economy : Policy Options for Transforming Production, Marketing, and Trade
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ISBN: 0812293754 0812248953 Year: 2016 Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,

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Rice has become one of Nigeria's leading food staples. And rice consumption has outpaced production, making Nigeria the world's leading importer of rice. As a result, reducing import dependence is now a major goal of Nigerian policymakers. In The Nigerian Rice Economy the authors assess three options for reducing this dependency—tariffs and other trade policies; increasing domestic rice production; and improving post-harvest rice processing and marketing—and identify improved production and postharvest activities as the most promising. These options, however, will require substantially increased public investments in a variety of areas, including research and development, basic infrastructure (for example, irrigation, feeder roads, and electricity), and rice milling technologies. The analysis, methods used, and recommendations provided in The Nigerian Rice Economy will be equally valuable to a broad range of readers including researchers, development specialists, students, and others concerned with applications of food policy analysis and economic development more broadly in Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa south of the Sahara. Contributors: Akeem Ajibola, Xinshen Diao, Paul A. Dorosh, Oluyemisi Kuku-Shittu, Mehrab Malek, Bakare Samuel Oladele.

Irrigation technology and commercialization of rice in The Gambia : effects on income and nutrition.
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ISBN: 0896290778 Year: 1989 Volume: 75 Publisher: Washington International food policy research institute

The rice economies
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ISBN: 0520914937 0585036098 9780520914933 9780585036090 0520086201 Year: 1994 Publisher: Berkeley Los Angeles London

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The contrast in the rate of growth between Western and Eastern societies since 1800 has caused Asian societies to be characterized as backward and resistant to change, though until 1600 or so certain Asian states were technologically far in advance of Europe. The Rice Economies, drawing on original source materials, examines patterns of technological and social evolution specific to East-Asian wet-rice economies in order to clarfiy some general historical trends in economic development.

Policy modeling of a dual grain market : the case of wheat in India.
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ISBN: 0896290409 Year: 1983 Publisher: Washington International food policy research institute

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Evaluating Alternative Approaches to Poverty Alleviation : Rice Tariffs Versus Targeted Transfers in Madagascar
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ISBN: 1451868715 1462393144 1451913249 9786613822406 1452768269 1282558277 Year: 2008 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund,

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This paper uses a partial equilibrium framework to evaluate the relative efficiency, distributional and revenue implications of rice tariffs and targeted transfers in Madagascar, especially in the context of identifying their respective roles for poverty alleviation. Although there are likely to be substantial efficiency gains from tariff reductions, these accrue mainly to higher income households. In addition, poor net rice sellers will lose from lower tariffs. Developing a system of well designed and implemented targeted direct transfers to poor households is thus likely to be a substantially more costeffective approach to poverty alleviation. Such an approach should be financed by switching revenue raising from rice tariffs to more efficient tax instruments. These policy conclusions are likely to be robust to the incorporation of general equilibrium considerations.

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