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Smallholder Risk Management in Developing Countries
Cervantes-Godoy, Dalila; Kimura, Shingo; Antón, Jesús - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2013
This paper addresses various aspects of risk and risk management for smallholders in developing countries, and presents a quantitative assessment of farm-level risks and risk management strategies in three emerging economies: Brazil, China and Viet Nam. The analysis covers production, income,...
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Local development in the rural regions of Eastern Europe: Post-socialist paradoxes of economic and social entrepreneurship
Grancelli, Bruno - In: Journal for East European Management Studies 16 (2011) 1, pp. 31-53
This paper aims to highlight some paradoxes of the agrarian transformation in Hungary and Poland and the ways they impinge on the working of private and cooperative farming.The first section reassesses the debate on the specificities of cooperative management in the light of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008855762
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Determinants of Farmers Participation in Off-Farm Employment: A Case Study in Kedah Darul Aman, Malaysia
ABDUL-HAKIM, Roslan; CHE-MAT, Siti Hadijah - In: Asian Journal of Agriculture and rural Development 1 (2011) 2, pp. 27-37
This paper investigates the determinants of agricultural households’ participation in off-farm employment. Towards this end, a logit model is employed to identify factors that determine the participation in off-farm employment. Here, determinants of participation in off-farm employment are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009394311
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Land and labor reallocation in pre-modern Japan : a case of a northeastern village in 1720-1870
Arimoto, Yutaka; Kurosu, Satomi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015
In agricultural societies, adjusting land and labor according to changes of labor endowment that result from family life cycle events is premised on making full use of resources for each farming household and for the economy as a whole. This paper examines how and how well households in...
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A Socio-Economic Study of Kelang Village in Yunnan Province in relation to Uptake by Farmers of Improved Management Practices on Red Soils in China
Cuddy, Michael P.; Liu, Hongmei - Department of Economics, National University of Ireland - 2003
This paper reports on the socio-economic outcome of a study of innovative, integrated, agricultural management practices in a catchment near Kelang village in Yunnan Province in south-west China. The focus of these practices, which included biological and engineering measures, was enhanced...
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Chinese producer behavior: Aquaculture farmers in southern China
Ortega, David L.; Wang, H. Holly; Olynk Widmar, Nicole J.; … - In: China Economic Review 28 (2014) C, pp. 17-24
The increasing share of imported food in developed countries, such as the U.S. and European Union countries, poses new challenges for food safety and quality regulators. China as the world's biggest food producer has the fastest growing share of fish and shellfish exports to these countries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744391
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Reprint of “Chinese producer behavior: Aquaculture farmers in southern China”
Ortega, David L.; Wang, H. Holly; Olynk Widmar, Nicole J.; … - In: China Economic Review 30 (2014) C, pp. 540-547
The increasing share of imported food in developed countries, such as the U.S. and European Union countries, poses new challenges for food safety and quality regulators. China, as the world's biggest food producer, has the fastest growing share of fish and shellfish exports to these countries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011065777
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Addressing food self-sufficiency in Tanzania: a balancing act of policy coordination
Msuya, E. E; Isinika, A. C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper examines the performance of food production and productivity in Tanzania since 2000, in relation to post …-SAP policies. This discussion assumes that individual households in Tanzania strive to achieve food security through own production … performance of food production and marketing, at the micro and macro levels, during the post-SAP period in Tanzania, as influenced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009018268
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CHILEAN AGRICULTURE AND MAJOR ECONOMIC REFORMS: GROWTH, TRADE, POVERTY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
FOSTER, William; FOSTER, William - In: Region et Developpement 23 (2006), pp. 187-214
This study examines the Chilean experience of economic and trade reforms, deregulation and privatization beginning in the 1970s, and their effect on the agricultural sector from the 1980s to the present. Especially interesting is the interaction between the sectoral, macroeconomic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010541016
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Needs, Modes and Efficiency of Economic Organizations and Public Interventions in Agriculture
Bachev, Hrabrin - In: Review of Economics & Finance 1 (2011) June, pp. 89-103
This paper incorporates interdisciplinary New Institutional Economics and suggests a framework for assessing needs and efficiency of economic organizations and public interventions in agriculture. Proposed new approach includes: studying farm and agrarian organizations as governing rather than...
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