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The Prospective Free Trade Agreement with Korea: Background, Analysis, and Perspectives for California Agriculture

Lee, Hyunok; Sumner, Daniel A. - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2009

After several years of informal and formal negotiations, South Korea and the United States reached an agreement to move … implications. The study finds that the Korea-United States Free Trade Agreement has the potential to be a significant demand driver … restrictive sanitary and phytosanitary regulations, South Korea has become a major agricultural importer from California. South …

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Impact of Direct Income Payments on Productive Efficiency of Korean Rice Farms

Kang, Hye-Jung; Kim, Jeong-Ho - In: Journal of Rural Development/Nongchon-Gyeongje 31 (2008) 2

This paper examines the impact of direct income payments on productive efficiency of Korean rice farms, using farm-level cross sectional data in 2006. For representation of efficiency and its determinants, this paper uses a model that estimates the deviations of farms from a translog distance...

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POLITIKAI ÉS HATÉKONYSÁGI CÉLOK KONFLIKTUSA AZ EU CUKORPIACI REFORMJÁBAN

Borbely, Akos - 2007

Az elemzés, a cukorreform hátterének vázlatos bemutatását követően, a kvótacsökkentés lebonyolításának hatékonysági összefüggéseire irányul. Az európai cukorágazat reformjának egyik fő mozgatórugója a hatékonyság, melyet a merev nemzeti kvótákra épülő...

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Soil Matters: How the Federal Crop Insurance Program should be reformed to encourage low-risk farming methods with high-reward environmental outcomes

O'Connor, Claire - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013

Although significant research has been done on managing farmers’ financial risk through federal programs such as federal crop insurance, to date, little attention has been paid to the ability of on-farm management’s potential to mitigate agricultural risk. Federal crop insurance could...

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Modelling Economic Returns to Plant Variety Protection in the UK

Srinivasan, Chittur S. - In: Bio-based and Applied Economics Journal (2012) 2

This paper attempts an empirical assessment of the incentive effects of plant variety protection regimes in the generation of crop variety innovations. A duration model of plant variety protection certificates is used to infer the private appropriability of returns from agricultural crop variety...

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Smallholder Commercialization Trends as Affected by Land Constraints in Zambia: What Are the Policy Implications?

Hichaambwa, Munguzwe; Jayne, Thomas S. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2012

In spite of vast expanses of the country’s land currently being uncultivated, there is increasing evidence that a surprisingly high share of rural smallholder households face land constraints that adversely affect their productivity and ability to participate in agricultural supply chains.

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Creating Scarcity From Abundance: Bumper Harvests, High Prices, And The Role Of State Interventions In Zambian Maize Markets

Kuteya, Auckland N.; Sitko, Nicholas J. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2014

From 2010 through 2012 harvest seasons, Zambian farmers produced three consecutive maize bumper harvests. The total maize production during this period was 8.6 million metric tonness, of which 4.6 million metric tonnes was a marketable surplus (CSO/MAL various years). This far exceeded the...

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