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Contract farming and smallholder incentives to produce high quality: experimental evidence from the Vietnamese dairy sector
Saenger, Christoph; Qaim, Matin; Torero, Maximo; … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
depend on farmers’ socio-economic characteristics such as wealth, while individual risk preferences seem to be less important …
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An Expost Economic Impact Assessment of the Intervention against Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Nigeria
Fadiga, Mohamadou L.; Okike, Iheanacho; Bett, Bernard - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
The risk of spread of HPAI in Nigeria was derived by using a compartmental model to outline endemic and burn …-out scenarios. Two paths, low and high mortality risks, were associated to each of the scenarios. The estimated risk parameters were …, and benefit cost ratio) were estimated for each randomly drawn risk parameter. On average, the results show that such an …
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Fertilizer profitability in East Africa: A Spatially Explicit Policy Analysis
Guo, Zhe; Koo, Jawoo; Wood, Stanley - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
Even though it is clear that Substantial growth in inorganic fertilizer use is a prerequisite for sustained agricultural growth in Africa, fertilizer use is still one of the factors explaining lagging agricultural productivity growth in SSA. High transport costs and less policy support pose a...
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Capital Budgeting Analysis of Organic Coffee Production in Gulmi District of Nepal.
Poudel, Krishna Lal; Nepal, Arati Poudel; Dhungana, Bhima; … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
This paper is only a part of research completed for the PhD degree in agricultural economics in University of Miyazaki. The paper is subjected to further improve and finalised.
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Cost of GMO-related co-existence and traceability systems in food production in Germany
Menrad, Klaus; Gabriel, Andreas; Zapilko, Marina - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
In contrast to the increasing use of GM plants in world-wide agriculture, the acceptance of GM food is still low in the European Union (EU). In order to ensure freedom of choice for consumers and users of GM and non-GM products, GM food and feed products have to be labeled in case a tolerance...
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Prospective Trends in Wine Export Markets – Expert Views from Spain
Bardaji, Isabel; Mili, Samir - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
As in other European producing countries, the wine industry in Spain faces growing competition from New World producers. International competitiveness of Spanish and European wines has been affected by increasing supply, declining public support, saturated domestic demand and increasingly...
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CEO Compensation in Cooperatives versus Publicly Listed Firms
Li, Feng; Hendrikse, George W.J. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
A multiple activities principal-agent model regarding CEO compensation in cooperatives is presented, capturing that cooperatives are not publicly listed and that they have to bring the enterprise to value as well as to serve member interests. A cooperative dominates a publicly listed firm in...
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Justified hopes or utopian thinking? The suitability of coffee certification schemes as a business model for small-scale producers
Beuchelt, Tina; Zeller, Manfred; Oberthur, Thomas - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
The marketing of coffee through group-based, certified market channels is often promoted by governments and donors as a viable business model for poor small-scale farmers. Organic and fairtrade coffees have become very popular among socially, environmentally and health conscious consumers in...
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Understanding Spatial Welfare Impacts of a Grain Ethanol Plant
Van Wart, Justin; Perrin, Richard K. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
A changing world of increasing complexity, fluctuating prices, high energy costs and limited data necessitate creative blending of economic theory and available empirical statistics to understand the welfare impacts in a specific market. In this paper, a programming approach is used in tandem...
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China’s Agricultural Modernisation Program: an assessment of its sustainability and impacts in the case of the high-value beef chain
Waldron, Scott A.; Brown, Colin G.; Longworth, John W. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
China has embarked on a major program to modernise agricultural and agribusiness structures with far reaching …
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