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The Choice of Institutions: The Role of Risk and Risk-Aversion

Weinhold, Diana; Zak, Paul J. - EconWPA - 2005

Institutions can affect individual behavior both via their efficiency impact and via their risk reducing mechanisms … simultaneously extant institutions. This paper presents a simple model of institutional choice in a labor market when there is a risk …

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An interaction model for livestock farming and steppe ecosystem // “Mathematical Modeling of Ecological Systems” Almaty: Daik-Press, 2003. – 160 p. Abstracts. P.26.

Demberel S.; Olenev, Nicholas; Pospelov, Igor - EconWPA - 2003

This work builds a macro model for livestock farming based on aggregation of initial micro description for rational control of total number of vintage livestock (age cohorts). All variety of animal kinds is reduced to one by given recount coefficients. An optimal problem on co-hort total number...

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Economy and Environment Interaction // Moscow: Dorodnicyn Computing Centre Russian Ac. Sc., 2003. 40p. (In Russian)

Demberel S.; Olenev, Nicholas; Pospelov, Igor - EconWPA - 2003

This paper presents new results of mathematical modeling of economy and environment interaction . A model of mutual interaction of livestock farming - one in a two main agricultural branches - and natural pastures that are the essential part of livestock farming forage reserve is proposed....

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An interaction model for livestock farming and steppe ecosystem

Demberel S.; Olenev, Nicholas; Pospelov, Igor - EconWPA - 2003

This work builds a macro model for livestock farming based on aggregation of initial micro description for rational control of total number of vintage livestock (age cohorts). Solution of an optimal problem on cohort total number of livestock gives the age limit for the operation of animals, the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408270

Strengthening capacity for resilient food systems: Approaches and research gaps:

Babu, Suresh Chandra; Blom, Sylvia - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

In the wake of the food and financial crises of 2007â€“2008 and 2011, building resilient food systems to achieve food security for all has become one of the top goals of the development agenda.

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Capacity development for resilient food systems: Issues, approaches, and knowledge gaps:

Babu, Suresh Chandra; Blom, Sylvia - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

categorized into three subsystems: a policy system; markets, trade, and institutions; and a production system. Within each of …

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The six "ins" of climate-smart agriculture: Inclusive institutions for information, innovation, investment, and insurance:

Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela; Bernier, Quinn; Haglund, Eric - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013

This paper reviews the central role of institutions for climate-smart agriculture (CSA), focusing on the role of … institutions in promoting inclusivity, providing information, enabling local level innovation, encouraging investment, and offering … role of state, collective action, and market institutions at multiple levels, with particular attention to the importance …

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Rural institutions and producer organizations in imperfect markets: experiences from producer marketing groups in semi-arid eastern Kenya

Shiferaw, Bekele; Obare, Gideon; Muricho, Geoffrey - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006

complementary institutions and coordination mechanisms to exploit scale economies. The effectiveness of PMGs was determined by the …

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The voracious appetites of public versus private property: a view of intellectual property and biodiversity from legal pluralism

Wiber, Melanie G. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005

only from legal institutions that mediate property rights, but also from social institutions that determine and distribute … rights, and how these legal and social institutions interface. The three-tiered model presented in this paper ideological …

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Collective action in plant genetic resources management: gendered rules of reputation, trust and reciprocity in Kerala, India

Padmanabhan, Martina Aruna - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006

"Collective action aims at the joint management of common pool resources. Agrobiodiversity at the community level is conceptualized as a collective resource requiring the management of varieties, species and their interrelations within a farming-system. In the rice dominated agriculture in the...

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