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The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Interdisciplinary Research in Agriculture
Duffy, Patricia A.; Guertal, Elizabeth A.; Muntifering, … - In: Journal of Agribusiness 15 (1997) 2
Increasingly, interdisciplinary research is being touted as a way to solve real-life problems of interest to the taxpayers who support research at public universities. The purpose of this paper is to examine the benefits of interdisciplinary agricultural research involving economists and natural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008599622
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Cash Wheat Marketing: Strategies for Real People
Brorsen, B. Wade; Anderson, Kim B. - In: Journal of Agribusiness 12 (1994) 2
A new paradigm is needed in extension marketing programs. Attempts to help producers time the market, either through cask sales or futures trading, appear to be of little benefit. Marketing extension programs need to place less emphasis on outlook and futures trading and more emphasis on simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008533303
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Conditionality and the Impact of Programme Design on Household welfare: Comparing two diverse cash transfer programmes in rural Mexico
Davis, Benjamin; Handa, Sudhanshu; Ruiz-Arranz, Marta; … - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2002
national antipoverty scheme directed at chronic rural poverty, and PROCAMPO, which is a scheme designed to compensate farmers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755027
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Discerning Transient from Chronic Poverty in Nicaragua: Measurement with a two period panel data set
Stampini, Marco; Davis, Benjamin - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2003
This paper deals with consumption dynamics and its effects on poverty. An econometric model is proposed in which … changes in poverty. Second, it allows distinguishing between chronic and transient poverty, by defining as chronically poor … those households whose level of consumption sustainable in the long term lies below the poverty line. This definition of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755048
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Domestic and International Migration from Rural Mexico: Disaggregating the effects of network structure and composition
Davis, Benjamin; Stecklov, Guy; Winters, Paul - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2002
This article explores the role of migrant networks in Mexican rural out-migration focusing on how network composition influences rural-to-rural, rural-to-urban, and rural-to-international migration. Using data from rural Mexico, migration is considered in a multiple-choice context allowing for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755058
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Can Public Transfers Reduce Mexican Migration? A study based on randomized experimental data
Stecklov, Guy; Winters, Paul; Stampini, Marco; Davis, … - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2003
determining migration outcomes. This study utilizes experimental data on PROGRESA, Mexico's primary poverty reduction program, to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005553369