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in the European Union (EU), and soybean products in China and in the EU, comparing these results with those of an … if the Doha proposal for tariff escalation reduction was adopted. The EU imports of coffee and soybean processed products …
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Farmers’ relative efficiency evaluation can be useful to aid decision-making in agriculture. The use of Data … Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in this context allows the identification of inefficiencies sources and benchmark units. This paper … used DEA to measure the efficiency of farmers’ sample from Holambra, a São Paulo State municipality. Cultiva-ted area …
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This paper examines the French agricultural modernization process based on the evaluation of economists, social and political scientists, involving especially the debate of the contemporary social science and rural economics. The objective is to understand its dynamics by the relationship...
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The citrus agroindustrial system is a very interesting example of the interaction of different forms of governance. The same producer manages his orange sales to the market agents in different ways: this situation is called plural forms or contractual mix. On sales to purchasers that sell the...
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research has the main focus to verify, through the application of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), the relation between …
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in 1995. A nonparametric frontier model (DEA) under constant returns to scale was used. On average, the results suggest …
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The objective of this study is to estimate the levels of technical efficiency of the small pineapple farmers of Santander, Colombia, using the stochastic frontier approach. In addition, this study attempts to determine whether the acreage and some of the socio-economic characteristics of farmers...
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envelopment analysis (DEA) and the Software DEAP v. 21, developed by Coelli (1996). First, the producers were separated according …
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