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This paper identifies and synthesises strategic opportunities and challenges facing New Zealand’s sheep meat and beef sector over the next 10 to 15 years. A Delphi surveydraws on the sector’s collective knowledge and identifies areas of consensus anddivergence of opinion. Using the results...
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Guided by the frame work of a household model under credit market failure, this paper aims at investigating the impact …
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The production and marketing scenario of coconut in the country has witnessed a phenomenal development, particularly in … the field of production such as development of improved high yielding dwarf varieties of crossbred coconut palm … developments that have taken place on production and marketing front of coconut and its products in the country. Therefore, a fresh …
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paper analyzes how consumers react to higher gas prices in a new setting, examining whether they choose Internet purchasing … over in-store purchasing when gas prices increase. Prior studies of Internet purchases have focused mainly on local sales … tax rates, traditional retail options, and prices. This is the first study to incorporate transportation costs directly …
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This paper examines the extent to which garment industry in Swaziland has contributed to the economic empowerment of the Swazi people through creation of new jobs and improvement in their overall welfare. In Swaziland as elsewhere in many African countries, unemployment has been and is still a...
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Danish farmers have been far less interested in agri-environmental subsidy schemes than anticipated. We use choiceexperiments to estimate 486 Danish farmers’ preferences for a number of policy relevant scheme-characteristics.Subsidy schemes for pesticide free buffer zones along hedgerows are...
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We theoretically examine a farmer’s coverage demand with area and individual insurance plans as either separate or integrated options. The individual and area losses are assumed to be imperfectly and positively correlated. With actuarially fair rates, the farmer will fully insure with the...
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We theoretically examine a farmer’s coverage demand with area and individual insurance plans as either separate or integrated options. The individual and area losses are assumed to be imperfectly and positively correlated. With actuarially fair rates, the farmer will fully insure with the...
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We study the difference in the volatility dynamics of CBOT corn, soybeans, and oatsfutures prices across different …
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