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International petroleum statistics report: April 1996
2010
This report presents data on international oil production, demand, imports, exports, and stocks. The report has four sections. Section 1 contains time series data on world oil production, and on oil demand and stocks in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). This...
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Oil politics in the new Iraq
Moore, Clement Henry (contributor); Rai, Varun (contributor) - 2011
Iraq is one of the world’s major oil suppliers, and over ninety percent of its government revenues come from oil … Saddam Hussein. One major political battle preventing Iraq from developing its hydrocarbons industry is over the nature of … federalism among all of the sects battling for oil wealth in Iraq. This paper focuses primarily on the issue between Kurds and …
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Farmers' strategies in globalization markets: Empirical results from Germany
Inderhees, Philipp; Theuvsen, Ludwig - 2006
Today the European agrofood sector is increasingly confronted with the threatsas well as the opportunities of liberalizing markets. Therefore, competitiveness on globalmarkets is becoming of paramount importance for European farmers. The challenges ofglobal markets are accompanied by a growing...
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Impact of the ‘Family-firm life cycle’ on the Management Processes Involved in Sustainable Glasshouse Horticulture
Taragola, Nicole; Van Lierde, Dirk; Van Huylenbroeck, Guido - 2008
In Flanders glasshouse vegetables andornamental plants are typically produced at familybusinesses. At this type of businesses the objectives andlong-term firm developments are influenced by the socalled ‘family-firm life cycle’. In many cases the firmshows a life cycle that corresponds with...
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Uab „Kesko Agro Lietuva“ gyvulininkystės prekių verslo situacija ir strateginės plėtros galimybės
Mikalauskas, Audrius - 2007
Pagrindinis darbo tikslas – ištirti gyvulininkystės prekių verslo situaciją Lietuvoje ir numatyti UAB „Kesko Agro Lietuva“ gyvulininkystės departamento strateginės plėtros galimybes. Tyrimas buvo atliktas analizuojant statistinius duomenis bei anketų pagalba, derinant interviu ir...
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Modeling farmer participation to a revenue insurance scheme by means of Positive Mathematical Programming
Severini, Simone; Cortignani, Raffaele - 2011
European farmers face increasing income uncertainty and the debate is growing on the role of insurance schemes and of public support in this field. This debate is further stimulated by the perspective of introducing instruments to cope with risk also in the Common Agricultural Policy. Therefore,...
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A INOVAÇÃO, A COOPERAÇÃO E O APRENDIZADO NO ARRANJO PRODUTIVO LOCAL DO AGRONEGÓCIO LEITE NO MUNICÍPIO DE JARU
Riva, Fabiana Rodrigues; Costa, Patricia Ferreira; … - 2008
As informações se restringem cada vez mais em poder de menos pessoas ocasionando uma disparidade nautilização das praticas administrativas. O setor agrícola constantemente tem sofrido com esta situação, pois osmicros e pequenos empresários dificilmente conseguem acompanhar tais mudanças...
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Host Country Attractiveness for CDM Non-Sink Projects
Jung, Martina - 2005
In the present study, CDM host countries are classified according to their attractiveness for CDM non-sink projects. A cluster analysis is conducted based on three different factors determining host country attractiveness (mitigation potential, institutional CDM capacity and general investment...
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The Effect of Farm Labor Organization on IPM Adoption: Empirical Evidence from Thailand
Beckmann, Volker; Irawan, Evi; Wesseler, Justus - 2006
This paper examines the empirical evidence of a theoretical economic model of the effect of labor organization on IPM adoption developed by Beckmann and Wes seler (2003). We use cross section data collected from the participatory farming system survey of 150 durian growers in Chanthaburi,...
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From Bioeconomic Farm Models to Multi-Agent Systems: Challenges for Parameterization and Validation
Berger, Thomas; Schreinemachers, Pepijn - 2006
Bioeconomic farm models have been very instrumental in capturing the technical aspects of human-nature interactions and in highlighting the economic consequences of resource use changes. They may elucidate the tradeoffs that farm households face in crop choice and farming practices, assess the...
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