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Organic Certification, Agro-Ecological Practices and Return on Investment: Farm Level Evidence from Ghana

Kleemann, Linda; Abdulai, Awudu - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

The recent empirical literature on economic sustainability of certified export crops shows that certification standards that enhance yields are important for improving farm revenues and farmer welfare. However, limited evidence exists on the impact of organic certification on the adoption of...

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Is Organic Farming Worth its Investment? The Adoption and Impact of Certified Pineapple Farming in Ghana

Kleemann, Linda; Abdulai, Awudu; Buss, Mareike - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

Global food markets demand the adoption of food standards by small-scale farmers in developing countries when they enter international markets. While a conventional certification with GlobalGAP can be a market entry condition for conventional food, especially for horticultural products, organic...

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Potential trade distortion effects of state trading enterprises under the tariff-rate quota scheme

Yoon, Jung-Hyun; Lim, Song Soo - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

The paper analyzes the potential trade distortion effects of state trading enterprises (STEs) on soybean imports to Korea. Traditionally, STEs have exercised exclusive rights to import the so-called strategic products, to ensure food security, domestic price stabilization, and import mark-ups....

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US food security and climate change: Agricultural futures

Takle, Eugene S.; Gustafson, David; Beachy, Roger; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

Agreement is developing among agricultural scientists on the emerging inability of agriculture to meet growing global …

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Knowing where organic markets move next: An analysis of developing countries in the pineapple market

Kleemann, Linda - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

As consumers' demand for organic products grows, selling organic products potentially opens up profitable market participation options for farmers in developing countries. This paper studies two aspects of profitability for the producers. It uses hedonic demand theory and empirical analysis to...

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Russia's food security and climate change: Looking into the future

Kiselev, Sergey; Romashkin, Roman; Nelson, Gerald C.; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

agricultural crops may expand toward the north, although yields would likely be lower due to less fertile soil. However, in the …

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FTA effects on agricultural trade with matching approaches

Lee, GaSeul; Lim, Song Soo - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015

effects of trade liberalization on agricultural products with robust empirical methods. In this study, propensity score …'s agricultural products. To enhance the robustness of estimated results, differences between the FTA treatment effects in 2010 and … 2012 are analyzed. The results reveal that the effect of FTAs on agricultural trade varies slightly, depending on the …

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The GTAP-W model: accounting for water use in agriculture

Calzadilla, Alvaro; Rehdanz, Katrin; Tol, Richard S.J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

Water and agriculture are intrinsically linked. Water is essential for crop production and agriculture is the largest consumer of freshwater resources. However, this link is commonly ignored by economic models mainly because water use is not reported in the national economic accounts. Few...

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Politics, globalization, and food crisis discourse

Guerrero, Esposo; Joseph, Bernard - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

The literature on food security has mainly been focused on causes, effects, and/or the nature of the crisis. However, there have been only a few attempts to understand how the discourse on the subject matter was shaped and is still being shaped at present. Food security is at the intersection of...

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Erneute EU-Agrarreform: Umbau statt Abbau von Subventionen

Schrader, Jörg-Volker - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2004

The paper discusses the decisions on the reform of the CAP from June 2003. The decisions focus on the decoupling of the direct payments to farmers from production. This will reduce production incentives and thereby improve the allocation of resources. However, payments to farmers will hardly be...

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