Essays about: "Agricultural led growth"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 37 essays containing the words Agricultural led growth.

  1. 16. Income diversification, market participation and urban proximity as determinants of exit from rural poverty: Evidence from Ethiopia and Tanzania

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Tillmann von Carnap-Bornheim; [2017]
    Keywords : Market Participation; Household enterprises; Structural transformation; Economic geography; Ethiopia and Tanzania;

    Abstract : It seems unlikely that Sub-Saharan Africa can follow the Asian experience of structural transformation through export-led growth. Rather, it has to rely on domestic sources to achieve substantial reductions in poverty. One such driver could be growing urban populations with increasing demand for rural products and services. READ MORE

  2. 17. Optimization of Single Cell Protein production from spent silfite liquor using Paecilomyces variotii

    University essay from Luleå tekniska universitet/Industriell miljö- och processteknik

    Author : Oskar Nilsson; [2017]
    Keywords : Single Cell Protein; Pacilomyces; Biokemi;

    Abstract : Fish has for a long time been a very important source of protein for human kind and with the world population at an all-time high, 7.5 billion and rapidly growing, the demand for fish as a food source is also at an all-time high and rapidly increasing. READ MORE

  3. 18. Key Economic Sector Nexus and their Granger Causality with Electricity in Tanzania

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Emmanuel Ngereja; [2016-10-05]
    Keywords : multivariate; Augmented Dickey Fuller; Autoregressive Distributive Lag; Tanzania; Vector Error Correction Model; Vector Autoregressive; energy dependency;

    Abstract : This thesis uses annual data from 1970 - 2014 to investigate Granger causality between electricity production and key growth contributors in Tanzania. The multivariate analysis is done using Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) to check for co-integration; the Vector Error Correction (VEC) and Vector Autoregressive (VAR) models are employed for co-integrated and non-co-integrated variables respectively. READ MORE

  4. 19. Weed suppressive ability of crop mixtures

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Crop Production Ecology

    Author : Anna Pers Berglund; [2016]
    Keywords : Elytrigia repens L. Desv. ex Nevski; intercropping; LAI; LAI-2200C Plant Canopy Analyzer; leaf area index; pea; spring barley; weed; weed tolerance;

    Abstract : In order to assess the weed suppressive ability of a pea/barley crop mixture and the component crops in sole cropping, a controlled outdoor experiment was performed at The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Ultuna, Sweden, in the summer of 2015. A substitutive completely randomized experimental design was used with seven treatments and six replicates. READ MORE

  5. 20. The impact of the transatlantic trade and investment partnership on agri-food trade and greenhouse gas emissions in the EU : an environmentally extended input-output analysis

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

    Author : Helena Robling; [2016]
    Keywords : agriculture; climate; environment; food; GHG emissons; impact analysis; input-output; policy; trade; TTIP;

    Abstract : To reach the goals set out by the Paris Agreement of limiting global warming to well below 2°C, significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change are required by all actors in society. The European Union has set ambitious targets to reduce its emissions by a minimum of 40% until 2030. READ MORE