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Determining the Role of Social Capital in Linking Smallholders with Agribusiness
Patrick, Ian; Marshall, Graham R.; Abdurrahman, Muktasam; … - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2006
agribusiness has been variable. Two recent ACIAR studies concluded that there may be more to linking smallholders with the … agribusiness sector than individual smallholder characteristics. This paper hypothesizes that social capital influences the ability … of individual smallholders to take advantage of emerging agribusiness opportunities. It outlines a project proposed by …
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One Player Games versus Two Player Games: Comparing Agribusiness Cooperatives with Investor-Owned Business Models
Parker, Frederick - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2011
agribusiness. However, weaknesses of the cooperative model are also discussed, conjecturing that cooperatives may be preferable to …Cooperative business firms are prevalent in agribusiness, yet no concise generalized model exists to demonstrate how … within a generic transaction game that cooperatives fill both producer and consumer roles as an aggregated player that is …
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Economic and ecosystem impacts of illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing in Northern Australia
Pascoe, Sean; Okey, Tomas A.; Griffiths, Shane - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society …
Illegal foreign fishing for sharks in Northern Australia has increased substantially over the last two decades. This has likely resulted in declines of shark species abundance, with potentially far-reaching impacts on the ecosystem. This, in turn, could also have indirectly affected the legal...
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Aerobic Rice: Benefits without going to the Gym?
Bayot, Ruvicyn; Templeton, Deborah J. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2009
Rice, a staple food for over 70% of Asians, is also the single biggest user of water, requiring 2‐3 times more water per unit of grain produced than crops such as wheat and maize. With growing populations, increased urbanisation and environmental degradation, the supply of fresh water is...
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Native Title and Associated Resource Use Issues: Australia
Padgett, Allan - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 1999
This paper will briefly describe the history and intent of the NTA 1993; survey outcomes flowing from its implementation, especially in reference to economic implications of agreements between parties; and consider future prospects, particularly by reference to the amended legislation which came...
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Deciding between development and preservation of a natural asset: a way out of the impasse?
Schilizzi, Steven - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 1999
Many environmental policy issues involve conflicts between nature conservation and economic development. The economic rationale behind deciding among alternative options is predicated on some form of benefit-cost analysis (BCA). Key issues to date have been non-market valuation, the...
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Valuation framing and attribute scope variation in a choice experiment to asses the impacts of changing land use from agriculture to mining
Windle, Jill; Rolfe, John - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2014
Evaluating land use change in economic frameworks often requires non-market values to be assessed. However non-market valuation experiments can be sensitive to the way the trade offs are framed. The aim of the research reported in this paper was to examine the influence of varying the valuation...
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MANAGING CHANGE: Lessons for water
McColl, James C.; Young, Michael D. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2006
As Australia begins to implement the National Water Initiative, there are lessons to be learned from past experience in rural adjustment and rural assistance schemes. The experience is rich and the messages powerful. Government intervention in the process of adjustment and change can impede,...
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Public greenspace and life satisfaction in urban Australia
Ambrey, Christopher L.; Fleming, Christopher M. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2012
This paper examines the influence of public greenspace on the life satisfaction of residents of Australia’s capital cities. A positive relationship is found between the percentage of public greenspace in a resident’s local area and their self-reported life satisfaction. On average, it is...
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Small-Scale Beef Cattle Production in East Java, Indonesia
Priyanti, Atien; Hanifah, Vyta W.; Mahendri, I.G.A.P.; … - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2012
Despite its small area and intensively cropped landscape, East Java accounts for 30% of Indonesia’s beef cattle population. About two million households draw on family labour to raise cattle in backyard sheds and small enclosures, largely for cash income. The paper reports on a study in two...
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