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Wholesale Milk Markets: A Study of Market Integration in Indian Markets

Jha, A.K.; Singh, K.M.; Singh, R.K.P. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Market integration is an important determinant of responsiveness and behavior of the markets needed to formulate price policies. Indian wholesale milk markets are correlated with varying degrees of integration. Paper uses monthly wholesale prices of milk for the period from April 1997 to...

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The Impact of Climatic Change on Agricultural Production: Is it different for Africa?

Barrios, Salvador; Ouattara, Bazoumanna; Strobl, Eric - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

This paper examines the impact of climatic change on the level of total agricultural production of Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) and non-Sub-Sahara Africa (NSSA) developing countries. In doing so it uses a new cross-country panel climatic dataset in an agricultural production framework. The results...

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Causality and Efficiency in the Coffee Futures Market

Kebede, Yohannes - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1992

Tests for causality and rationality in the coffee futures market were carried out using data from the New York Market. Tests of causality indicated that futures prices strongly influence variations in spot price eight weeks or more to maturity. However, beginning seven weeks to maturity there...

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The Contribution of Non-Physical Resources and Strategic Household Decision-making to Environmental and Policy Risks

Mariam, Yohannes; Galaty, John; Coffin, Garth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993

Physical resources such as land, labour and livestock, and nonphysical resources such as indigenous knowledge and institutions of producers in the grain surplus and deficit regions of the Central Highlands of Ethiopia are examined under situation of environmental and policy risks. Frequency...

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Strategic Decision-Making: Adoption of Agricultural Technologies and Risk in a Peasant Economy

Mariam, Yohannes; Galaty, John; Coffin, Garth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993

Descriptive and logit analysis were employed to investigate the impact of social, economic and technical factors on decisions to adopt new agricultural technologies in the Ada and Selale districts of Ethiopia. Peasants follow sequential adoption of technologies. In both study areas, priority is...

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Trade and agricultural policies in Malawi: Not all policy reform is equally good for the poor

Douillet, Mathilde - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

representing Malawi in 2007 linked to household survey to examine how different trade policy reforms by Malawi and the rest of the … world would impact poverty in Malawi. The country’s recent agricultural growth history due to the Fertilizer Input Subsidy … policies could help fight poverty in Malawi, there are no substitute to development policies, and if undertaken simultaneously …

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Spatial Price Transmission in the Regional Maize Markets in Ghana

Ankamah-Yeboah, Isaac - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Policy makers have been striving through market reforms to ensure proper functioning of agricultural markets and marketing channels to ensure food security, realize welfare impacts from policies, bridge the gap between the affluent and deprived regions. The core of which is due to regional...

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The potato value chain in Bihar: An assessment and policy implications

Minten, Bart; Reardon, Thomas; Singh, K.M.; Sutradhar, Rajib - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Introduction. As part of the National Agricultural Innovation Project (NAIP), a potato value chain study was organized in Bihar, in collaboration between the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) in Patna, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the International...

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Symmetry in farm-retail price transmission: pork in Malaysia

Tey, (John) Yeong-Sheng - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This study intends to determine the farm-retail price transmission behaviors of pork in Malaysia to serve as a good implication for pork pricing system in Malaysia. Using data from January 1997 to December 2008, both the Houck and ECM approaches were found symmetric where a change in farm price...

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A managerial economist's forecast for meat consumption in Malaysia: Implications to farmers and investors

Tey, (John) Yeong-Sheng - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

In this consumer driven chain, the changes in meat consumption at consumer level indeed provide implication for upstream production. While econometrics based analysis and forecast are hard to be understood and digested by farmers or investors, a simple forecast from the perspectives of...

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