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The Economics of Malaria Vector Control
Brown, Zachary Steven - 2011
In recent years, government aid agencies and international organizations have increased their financial commitments to controlling and eliminating malaria from the planet. This renewed emphasis on elimination is reminiscent of a previous worldwide campaign to eradicate malaria in the 1960s, a...
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Essays on Split Estate in Energy Development
Fitzgerald, Timothy - 2008
Taking advantage of randomly-assigned federal mineral rights, the first essay establishes the discount that mineral developers place on oil and gas leases with divided ownership. This discount is interpreted as an expectation of reduced profits as a result of transaction costs incurred in...
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Institutional Structure in Corporate Agriculture
Bhutani, Niti - 2010
In this dissertation, a state-contingent, principal-agent model is developed to examine the institution of input provision by a corporate firm that contracts with agents for the production of a given commodity. "Input provision" entails not only the provision and delivery of key inputs by the...
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Understanding and promoting adoption of conservation practices by rural landholders
Pannell, DJ; Marshall, GR; Barr, N; Curtis, A; Vanclay, F; … - 2006
Research on the adoption of rural innovations is reviewed and interpreted through a cross-disciplinary lens to provide practical guidance for research, extension and policy relating to conservation practices. Adoption of innovations by landholders is presented as a dynamic learning process....
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Development of China's rural industry and measurement of its productive efficiency at firm level
Song, Xiaojiang
Using 1988-1992 data of 500 rural non-agricultural enterprises, which are collected from four counties of Sichuan …Using 1988-1992 data of 500 rural non-agricultural enterprises, which are collected from four counties of Sichuan …
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¿SEGURIDAD E HIGIENE PARA EL TRABAJADOR AGRÃCOLA? ESCENARIO EN LOS CAMPOS TOMATEROS DE LA MESETA COMITECA
Gómez Carreto, Tlillalcapatl; López Cortez; … - In: Revista Mexicana de Agronegocios 34 (2014)
agricultural workers. There are contexts in the Mexican countryside where those subjects are not considered in a fair dimension … the environment linked to agricultural work. Land, water and wind are elements and natural resources that are essential to … activities carried out and this work presents some considerations on agricultural work in the main producing region of tomato in …
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U.S. Foreign Agricultural Trade Statistical Report Fiscal Year 1981--Supplementary Tables
Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1982
This publication presents statistical summaries of U.S. foreign trade in agricultural products by country during fiscal … commodity groups. This report updates U.S. Foreign Agricultural Trade Statistical Report, Fiscal Year 1980 Supplementary Tables … (unnumbered) issued in February 1981, and supplements the bimonthly Foreign Agricultural Trade of the United States. …
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A Description of the Market Structure and Agricultural Policies in Five Regional Oilseed and Oilseed Product Markets
Griffith, Garry R.; Meilke, Karl D. - Department of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics … - 1980
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The evolution of income distribution in Brazil: different characteristics of the agricultural sector
Hoffmann, Rodolfo; Oliveira, Regis Borges de - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
Agricultural and non-agricultural distribution of earnings in Brazil …
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Price Transmission and Market Power in Modern Agricultural Value Chains
Swinnen, Johan F.M.; Vandeplas, Anneleen - eSocialSciences - 2014
particular nature and institutional characteristics of (“modernâ€) agricultural and food markets and supply chains. [LICOS …
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