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Rethinking the development, dissemination and adoption of agricultural technologies
Cramb, Rob - 2005
This paper focuses on the higher order factors affecting successful adoption of technologies. Drawing on the "actor-oriented perspective" in rural sociology, it is argued that successful examples of adoption at this higher level result from a complex conjunction of people and events, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447969
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The effect of the foreign capital and European subventions on the competitiveness of the Hungarian agribusiness’ enterprises in the last 15 years
Karolyne Zdenko, Ildiko; Illes B., Csaba; Pataki, Laszlo; … - 2009
In our research we examine the foreign investments from the change of regime, privatization; EUaccession, possibilities offered by subventions (2004-2006); so the experiences of the last 15 years, and we draw upthe expectations from the actual New Hungary Rural Development and National...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445962
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The role and the position of agriculture in the national economy in Slovakia and in the EU
Rovný, Patrik; Nagyová, Ľudmila - 2012
Conducted analysis point out that agriculture together with the food industry belong to the most important industries … point out the importance of agriculture in the national economy. The share of agriculture on the GDP in the time range 2000 … increased moderately up to 4,44 % and in 2006 up to 4,21 %. During the analyzed years the employment decrease in agriculture was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011315788
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Czech agriculture and food industry before integration to EU
Pourová, Marie - 2012
The paper covers current state of the Czech agriculture and food industry before its integration to EU. The opinion … survey among experts, politicians and various business managers shows, that the Czech agriculture has stabilized after the … integration of the Czech Republic to EU from the viewpoint of agriculture is currently very difficult. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011315883
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Natural Disasters and Agriculture: Individual Risk Preferences towards Flooding
Sauer, Johannes - 2011
This study contributes to the understanding of behavioural responses to climate change induced extreme weatherevents. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affectedindividuals. The method is outlined using the empirical case of agricultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442826
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The Media System of Malawi
Wedler, Eduard - 2010
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009434281
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Determinants of Moral hazard in Microfinance: Empirical Evidence from Joint Liability Lending Schemes in Malawi
Simtowe, Franklin; Zeller, Manfred; Phiri, Alexander - 2006
, empirical studies are rare. This paper investigates the determinants of moral hazard among JLL schemes from Malawi, using group …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442550
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Market Integration with Transaction Costs in Developing Country Staple Food Markets: the Case of the Malawi Maize market
Zant, Wouter - 2010
proposed method is applied to the Malawi maize market with monthly data from June 1999 to October 2009 for 26 districts. This … costs of domestic maize trade in Malawi. The evidence indicates that markets are particularly well integrated during food …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443620