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factors in Chinese grain production. Our results indicate that China might, at least in the short run, become a net …
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The objective of this research is to estimate the economic impact of climate change on tea production in China. We use … partial effect of specific weather factors on tea yields in China, with a specific focus on monsoon dynamics. We base our … for tea producer in China in the face of future global climate changes. …
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increasing concern about the potential negative effects of moving labor away from agriculture on China’s future food security … not much debate about the positive contribution of migration and local off-farm employment to China’s economy, there is an …. This is a critical issue as maintaining self-sufficiency in grain production will be critical for China to feed its huge …
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China underwent tremendous agricultural market reforms in the 1990s prior to its accession to the WTO, drastically …
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Research studies have differed over the importance of the relative emphasis of a customer versus competitor orientation in the development of a market orientation (Slater and Narver, 1994; Tajeddini, 2010). In this study, we assess whether the emphasis of one component over another of a market...
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Since 2003, the NEPAD Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) has been endorsed by African Heads … Africa. The program aims at stimulating agriculture-led development that eliminates hunger and reduces poverty and food …
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A static, producer profit maximization framework is used to capture county level land use choice on the basis of profitability, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to the farm gate as well as soil carbon sequestration as affected by tillage and soil type. Policy scenarios of a 5% GHG cap on...
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We develop a theoretical model using migration and trade theory to examine the effects of domestic and border enforcement policies on unauthorized workers and the U.S. agricultural sector. The theoretical results show that heightened immigration policies increase the illegal farm wage rate, and...
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In the vicinity of a city, farmers are confronted with increasing agricultural land prices and rents along the rural-urban gradient, but they concurrently enjoy the advantages associated with proximity to a larger and wealthier consumer base. We hypothesize that farmers transition from...
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This article is concerned with the methodological question of frontier production functions estimation for agriculture …
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