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increase producers’ as well as total welfare if the marketing sector is imperfectly competitive. We use a simulation approach … marketing of fish by aquaculture producers. The cartel-like organization of fish marketing raised concerns that fish growers … exploited market power to the detriment of consumers and total welfare. On the other hand, grower cooperation in marketing may …
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establish economically sustainable collaborative marketing groups. We propose a new way to fund the establishment of these … additional support. Furthermore, we propose that the more successful farmers levy themselves to establish and maintain marketing … marketing groups by providing long-term technical assistance as well as social facilitators to develop trust and maintain unity …
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marketing activities. However, publications by China's State Statistical Bureau underestimate animal product consumption. Such … underestimated statistics affect policy making and marketing initiatives and also lead to the estimation of distorted parameters that …
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detailed marketing studies to be undertaken in the context of PROMISAM II’s applied research program on promoting food security … in Mali. The objective of the reconnaissance was to explore changes in cereal production and marketing patterns as an …
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marketing margins, which shrink the wedge between producer and consumer prices. Moreover, Malawi faces major political and …
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AAMP Policy Briefing 1 January, 2010 This brief summarizes the policy implications of three thematic papers and seven country background papers prepared for the COMESA-ACTESA policy seminar on “Variations in staple food prices: Causes, consequences, and policy implications.” There is little...
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findings from a study on smallholder crop marketing behavior and urban consumption patterns in Eastern and Southern Africa. …
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benefited from the bumper crop and FRA‟s involvement in maize marketing. The FRA‟s high buy price and purchase of nearly 900 … key features of the 2010/11 GRZ maize marketing policies and their likely income distributional effects on various …
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Approximately 75% of all water used by humans goes towards food production, much of which is traded internationally. This study formally models how this works in the case of crop agriculture, making use of recent advances in international trade theory and new data on the productivity by which...
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Commodity associations are organizations that bring together a wide spectrum of interest groups related to a particular commodity or sector in a particular country, whether for export, for the domestic market, or for both. Such associations can have, as members, individual farmers or their...
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