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Does Land Use Patterns Matter for Bt-Maize: The Case of Maize Farming System in Kenya

Muhammad, Lutta; Owuor, George; De Groote, Hugo; … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

Population pressures and the need to optimize the use of limited available land has led to increasing cropping affluence levels within the maize agro-ecologies in Kenya, and a shift from large to smallholder intensification and multiple cropping patterns. Using a geographic information system,...

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Market Competition in Export Cash Crops and Farm Income

Depetris Chauvin, Nicolas; Porto, Guido G. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2011

many atomistic smallholders and a few exporters. The model provides the tools needed to simulate the changes in farm …

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Market outlet choices in the context of changing demand for fresh meat: implications for smallholder inclusion in pork supply chain in Vietnam

Lapar, Ma. Lucila A.; Toan, Nguyen Ngoc; Que, Nguyen Ngoc; … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

This paper reports on the findings of a study to investigate market outlet choice decision-making of urban consumers in Vietnam with regards to fresh pork purchases and generate empirical evidence on factors that influence these choices. Data from a survey of 600 consumers in Hanoi and Ho Chi...

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Market Orientation and Market Participation of Smallholders in Ethiopia: Implications for Commercial Transformation

Gebremedhin, Berhanu; Tegegne, Azage - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

The literature on commercial transformation of smallholders makes little distinction between market orientation and …-pronged approach: improving market orientation of smallholders at production level, and facilitation of market entry and participation …: commercialization, smallholders, market orientation, market participation. …

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A Reappraisal of the Role of Agriculture in Economic Growth in Melanesian Countries

Fleming, Euan M.; Fleming, Pauline - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

Fortunes in the agricultural sectors of four of the largest South Pacific countries are traced in recent decades by estimating the single factoral terms of trade index. The single factoral terms of trade are measured for agriculture in four Melanesian countries-Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon...

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Contract Farming in China: Perspectives of Smallholders

Guo, Hongdong; Jolly, Robert W. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

This paper explores the current status of contract farming in China by examining data from a survey of Chinese householders. The survey indicates that the actual proportion of householders engaged in contract farming is relatively low and significantly less than the proportion of householders...

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Returns to scope? Smallholders commercialization through multipurpose cooperatives in Ethiopia

Bernard, Tanguy; Seyoum Taffesse, Alemayehu - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

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THE IMPORTANCE OF SOCIAL CAPITAL IN COLOMBIAN RURAL AGRO-ENTERPRISES

Johnson, Nancy L.; Suarez, Ruth; Lundy, Mark - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2003

This paper characterizes and measures the contribution of social capital to the performance of 50 agro-enterprises in Colombia. Using qualitative analysis we document the functions that social capital performs within firms. To estimate social capital's contribution to firm structure and...

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