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Response of rice yields in Ghana: some prescriptions for future rice policy
Boansi, David - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
With local rice production lagging well behind demand as a result of low productivity of farmers’ fields, this study … analyzed the response of rice yields in Ghana to major internal and external factors which have direct and indirect effects on … production and to producers. Yield of rice was found to increase with producer price of rice, irrigated area, labor availability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259309
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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 … robustness and the limitations of other approaches. Results indicate that regional maize markets are integrated. Bidirectional … occurring between Brong Ahafo - Greater Accra markets linkage for positive deviations and Brong Ahafo - Ashanti market for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259494
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The Prices in Mozambican Agriculture: Some Observations
Tarp, Finn - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1987
The objective of this document is to contribute to an analysis of the prices in Mozambican agriculture with a view to improve the knowledge of this very important area of agricultural economics and to arrive at better informed and more consistent policy decisions. The document does not pretend...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011234834
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A Policy Impact Evaluation Model For Scotland: Decoupling Single Farm Payments
Gelan, Ayele; Schwarz, Gerald - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
aggregate impacts on the agricultural products in domestic and external markets and the spill-over effect of this on the non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789971
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Economic Impact of the Mid-Term Review on Agricultural Production, Farm Income and Farm Survival: A Quantitative Analysis for Local Sub-Regions of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany
Henningsen, Arne; Henning, Christian H.C.A.; Struve, Carsten - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This study analyzes the impact of the Mid-Term Review (MTR) on the agricultural sector in Schleswig-Holstein, a federal state in Germany. First, a very detailed farm group linear programming model is built to quantify the effects on agricultural production and farm incomes. The production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835623
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The effects of rising food prices on poverty in Mexico
Valero-Gil, Jorge; Valero, Magali - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
We evaluate the impact of the rise in food prices during 2006-2008 on the poverty and extreme poverty rates in Mexico. We concentrate on the poor’s consumption of staple foods, and analyze the change in their consumption brought about by changed prices. We also allow households receiving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836098
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Edible Oil Deficit and Its Impact on Food Expenditure in Pakistan
Ali, Muhammad; Arifullah, Syed; Memon, Manzoor Hussain - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This study is an attempt to analyze the impact of Edible Oil Deficit on Food Expenditure in Pakistan for the period 1971-2008. Edible oil deficit is one of the major concerns for the policy makers in Pakistan. Despite of having agriculture based economy; Pakistan is unable to fulfil her domestic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005103386
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Agriculture and the rest of the economy: macroconnections and policy restraints
Chichilnisky, Graciela; Taylor, Lance - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1980
The first two sections of the paper are devoted to a combination of Kuznets and structuralist stories, where we ask how the agricultural/nonagricultural terms of trade and income distribution must adjust to permit both savings and investment and commodity market balance to be assured. It will be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005620055
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Sobre a Demanda Agregada por Carnes no Mercado Brasileiro
Filho, Resende; A, M; Bressan, V G F; Braga, M J; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We used alternative specifications of the Almost Ideal Demand System to estimate the aggregate demand for beef, pork, chicken, and other consumption goods and their elasticities in Brazil. We detected the need for using time trend variables in models’ equations so that an upward trend for each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147914
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Price transmission in the European tomatoes and cauliflowers sectors
Santeramo, Fabio Gaetano - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
tomatoes and cauliflowers prices collected on main production and consumption European markets. It is based on the estimation … transaction costs and speeds of price transmission among spatially separated markets. We provide an assessment of the average …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011170138