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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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Monitoring regional economies in Australia: why and how

Chapman, Paul; Coelho, Bruno - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2007

Economic activity is inherently variable and monitoring it is a major challenge, especially in regional economies where resources are fewer and activity is more variable. Using a recent study of the Riverland region, the authors set out the information available, its limitations and means by...

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Spatial autocorrelation and non-farm rural enterprises in Indonesia

Gibson, John; Olivia, Susan - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2007

Non-farm rural enterprises (NFRE) are increasingly studied because of their role in poverty reduction. However, existing studies of the effects of infrastructure on NFRE may give incorrect inferences because they typically fail to account for spatial effects. Such effects could reflect either...

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The farm level impacts of water sharing plans in the Namoi Valley: A stochastic dynamic programming analysis

Aluwihare, Parakrama B.; Jones, Randall E.; Letcher, … - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2005

In NSW the Water Management Act (2000) requires water to be specifically allocated for environmental purposes so as to improve river health. Water sharing plans have been developed that establish extractive and environmental shares to river flows. In unregulated river systems this has resulted...

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THE EFFICIENCY AND EQUITY IMPLICATIONS OF PERTH’S INCLINING BLOCK URBAN WATER TARIFFS

Brennan, Donna C. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2006

Inclining block tariffs, where the unit price is dependent on the volume consumed, are widely used in urban water pricing. These tariffs attempt to satisfy both efficiency and equity goals by providing pricing signals to influence consumption decisions at the margin, whilst making...

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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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