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Opportunity Costs of Providing Crop Diversity in Organic and Conventional Farming

Sipilainen, Timo; Huhtala, Anni - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

Targeted environmental policies for farmlands may improve the cost-efficiency of conservation programs if one can identify those farms that produce public goods with the least cost. We derive shadow values of producing crop diversity for a sample of Finnish conventional and organic crop farms in...

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Effect of decoupling and agri-environmental policy on biodiversity in the uplands in UK

Acs, Szvetlana; Dallimer, Martin; Hanley, Nick; Gaston, … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

Recent decades have witnessed substantial losses in biodiversity in Europe, principally driven by the ecological … changes associated with intensification of agricultural production. These changes especially affected the biodiversity in the … those have a subsequent effect on biodiversity. In order to address the problem of economic viability of farmers together …

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Contracts, Transaction Costs and Agricultural Production in the Pampas

Lema, Daniel - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

context of modern agriculture, with well defined property rights, agricultural contracts must balance costs and benefits …

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Efficiency of Selected Risk Management Instruments - An Empirical Analysis of Risk Reduction in Kazakhstani Crop Production

Heidelbach, Olaf - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

Recent academic discussion regarding crop insurance in developing and transition countries has focused on weather index insurance. But empirical analyses of such schemes based on farm level data cannot be found in the literature, though this insurance type shows clear advantages compared to...

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The Rhythm of the Rains: Seasonal Effects on Child Health in The Gambia

Gajigo, Ousman; Schwab, Benjamin - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

We analyze the consequences of seasonal variation in maternal consumption on child health using two nationally representative Gambian household surveys. Seasonal fluctuation in consumption stems from difficulties borrowing when incomes are low during the rainy season and saving when they peak...

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Trade policy reforms in the new agricultural context: Is regional integration a priority for Sub-Saharan African countries agricultural-led industrialization? Insights from a globa...

Douillet, Mathilde - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

preferential) trade integration are compared to assess policy reform priorities. Their coherence with the objective of agriculture …

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Climate Change, Agricultural Productivity and its Impacts on the Food Industry: A General Equilibrium Analysis

Ludena, Carlos E.; Mejia, Carla - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

productivity and its impacts on production, trade and prices of primary agriculture, and ultimately, food processing sectors. We …

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The Rhythm of the Rains: Seasonal Effects on Child Health in The Gambia

Gajigo, Ousman; Schwab, Benjamin - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

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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

This paper studies how the internal structure of agriculture export markets and the level of competition affect poverty … and welfare in rural areas in Africa. We develop a game-theory model of supply chains in cash crop agriculture between …

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Trade and Intellectual Property Rights in the Agricultural Seed Sector

Eaton, Derek J.F. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) has continued to be fiercely debated between North and South, particularly with respect to its provisions for the agricultural sector. Article 27.3(b) of the TRIPS Agreement requires WTO member countries to offer some...

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