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Import elasticity of tea: a case of Pakistan
Khan, Rana Ejaz Ali; Hussain, Tanveer - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Pakistan is second largest importer of tea. It is based on the fact that negligible part of the consumption of tea is … produced domestically. The import analysis of tea is significant to check the import bill. The paper empirically investigated … the determinants of import of tea using annual time series data for the years 1977-2009 at the national level. We find …
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Livestock industrialization, trade and social-health-environment impacts in developing countries: a case of Indian poultry sector
Mehta, Rajesh; Narrod, Clare; Tiongco, Marites - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper presents the results of an empirical study of the Indian Poultry Industry which is specially focused on the social and environmental outcomes generated by the rapidly increasing scale of egg and broiler production in India. Among the effects of these rapid changes that occurred in the...
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Agricultural Extension and Imperfect Supervision in Contract Farming: Evidence from Madagascar
Bellemare, Marc F. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This article tests whether agricultural extension and imperfect supervision -- conflated here into the number of visits by a technical assistant -- increase productivity in a sample of contract farming arrangements between a processing �rm and small agricultural producers in Madagascar....
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Smallholder Participation in Agricultural Value Chains: Comparative Evidence from Three Continents
Barrett, Christopher B.; Bachke, Maren E.; Bellemare, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Supermarkets, specialized wholesalers, and processors and agro-exporters’ agricultural value chains have begun to transform the marketing channels into which smallholder farmers sell produce in low-income economies. We develop a conceptual framework through which to study contracting between...
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"You Quit?" Influence of Neighbor Experience and Exit on Small Farmer Market Participation
Michelson, Hope - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
This research analyzes the relationship between a farmers' participation in Nicaraguan supermarket supply chains and the market entries and exit of neighboring farmers. Drawing on insights from the technology adoption literature on learning and experimentation, we incorporate measures of...
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Small farmers, NGOs, and a Walmart World: Welfare effects of supermarkets operating in Nicaragua
Michelson, Hope C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Despite more than a decade of NGO and government activities promoting developing world farmer participation in high-value agricultural markets, evidence regarding the household welfare effects of such initiatives is limited. This paper analyzes the geographic placement of supermarket supply...
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Milk supply contracts and default incidence in Kenya
Mailu, Stephen; Will, Margret; Mwanza, Rosemary; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Using cross sectional data from all 47 Counties in Kenya, the presence of contract breaches between the producers and chain intermediary node is investigated. Most farmers do not engage in contracting and for those who do, many of these contracts are found to be informal. In addition, most of...
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As You Sow, So Shall You Reap: The Welfare Impacts of Contract Farming
Bellemare, Marc F. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
What is the impact of participation in agricultural value chains on the welfare of smallholders? Contract farming, wherein a processing firm delegates its production of agricultural commodities to growers, is often viewed as a means of increasing smallholder welfare in developing countries....
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On the Implications of Contract Farming on Agricultural and Rural Development in India : With Special Reference to Karanataka, India
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana; Veslawatha, Suresh Naik - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The present paper examines the rationale for the introduction of contract farming in Indian context and advantages and disadvantages it draws with reference to rural and agricultural development where particular emphasis is given to marginal and small farmers. It is also looking into what are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114087
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As You Sow, So Shall You Reap: The Welfare Impacts of Contract Farming
Bellemare, Marc F. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
What is the impact of participation in commodity chains on producer welfare? Contract farming – wherein a processing firm delegates its production of agricultural commodities to growers – is often viewed as a means of increasing grower welfare in developing countries. Because the nonrandom...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008557262