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Agriculture is the main user of the world’s water resources. Due to increasing concern on water quality and quantity, there is a growing interest to use the scarce water resources in the most efficient way to feed the growing world population. By employing a meta-analysis, this paper shows...
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Concerns about future food security in the face of volatile and potentially lower yields due to climate change have been at the heart of recent discussions on adaptation strategies in the agricultural sector. While there are a variety of studies trying to quantify the impact of climate change on...
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The paper analyses the impact of adopting new agricultural technologies on the multiple dimensions of food security for maize farmers in Tanzania. Relying on matching techniques, we use a nationally representative dataset to estimate the causal effects of improved seeds and inorganic fertilizers...
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More and more coffee-producing countries establish geographical indications (GIs) for their coffees. GIs are not only … strategic tool to enter the growing specialty coffee market. Whereas the importance of regional reputation is quite well …-documented in the empirical literature on wine, empirical evidence for regional reputational effects on coffee prices is rather …
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recently, in supermarkets and shopping centres. The fair trade product with the highest market share is coffee. This study aims … to ascertain the implicit price paid by Italian consumers for the fair trade content of coffee and how this implicit … is the province. Since scanner data are used, the analysis can allow for the coffee attributes described by the labels …
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three sustainability oriented standards – Fairtrade, Organic, and UTZ – on the livelihoods of smallholder coffee farmers in …
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This paper estimates trade duration of raw coffee exports into the European Union (EU) market comparing different … discrete-time duration models using monthly trade panel data from 1988 to 2013. As coffee is an important export commodity and … essential. Results reveal that major gravity model variables also explain duration of EU coffee imports. Moreover, we find that …
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The commodity nature of green coffee is the main cause of “the coffee paradox” (decreasing prices at production level … the supply chain would be to “decommodify” the coffee market not only at the final consumer level, but also at the … production area ). The aim of this article is to question the ability of GIs to “decommodify” the coffee market also on the …
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in the so-called specialty coffee sector. Similar to the approach for wine in France and Italy, more and more coffee …-producing countries try to establish appellations systems for coffee. Whereas some countries and regions such as Colombia or Jamaica have … already legally protected GIs for coffee, most coffee GIs are still informal meaning that no legal protection has been …
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the household is living below the poverty line. We focus on the PPI scorecard for Rwanda, which was validated using two …
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