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THE AGE OF CONTRACT AGRICULTURE: CONSEQUENCES OF CONCENTRATION IN INPUT SUPPLY

Harl, Neil E. - 2000

Dramatic increases in concentration in the seed business, coupled with aggressive efforts to vertically integrate the … producers. Disparate positions of market power by highly concentrated input suppliers on the one hand (particularly seed … suppliers because of control over germ plasm and a monopoly position over seed varieties through plant patents or plant variety …

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On Pricing and Vertical Organization of Differentiated Products: The Case of Soybean Seed Industry

Shi, Guanming; Chavas, Jean-Paul - 2009

evidence that vertical organization has significant effects on seed prices. These effects are found to vary depending on the …

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Consulting the stakeholders on pro-poor market segmentation of maize seed in Africa

de Groote, Hugo; Andam, Kwaw S.; Hall, Mike; Munyua, … - 2009

consultation was organized in Kenya in May and June 2008 with stakeholders from the seed sector, NGOs, Ministry of Agriculture … organizations in Kenya, including government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and seed companies, supply reduced … segmentation for maize seed. The two main market segmentation strategies that are viable are direct targeting, which is likely to …

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The Doha Agenda and Agricultural Trade Reform: The Role of Economic Analysis

Martin, William J.; Anderson, Kym - 2006

This paper shows that research on international agricultural trade reform can make much greater contributions to understanding than was feasible in earlier trade negotiations. Part of this is due to improvements in the basic data on production, consumption and trade associated with the...

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Organic certification systems and international trading of agricultural products in gravity models

Cantore, Nicola; Canavari, Maurizio; Pignatti, Erika - 2008

Recent literature about gravity models points out the importance of institutional frictions in the international market of agricultural products beyond the traditional economics variables as transport costs reducing the mass of trade in bilateral relationships. In particular, previous...

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Are The Poverty Effects of Trade Policies Invisible?

Verma, Monika; Valenzuela, Ernesto; Hertel, Thomas W. - 2010

With the advent of the WTO’s Doha Development Agenda, as well as the MillenniumDevelopment Goals aiming to reduce poverty by 50 percent by 2015, poverty impacts oftrade reforms have attracted increasing attention. This has been particularly true ofagricultural trade reform due to the...

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Structure and Competitiveness of Mutual Agrarian Trade of Visegrad Countries

Svatoš, Miroslav; Smutka, Luboš - 2013

Agricultural trade in the case of all of the analyzed countries (the Visegrad group, or only V4) represents only a minor part of the merchandise trade. The overwhelming majority of agricultural trade – export as well as import – je conducted in relation to EU countries. V4 market is also...

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OECD Domestic Support and the Developing Countries

Dimaranan, Betina; Hertel, Thomas; Keeney, Roman - 2003

This paper aims to shed light on the potential interests of developing countries in reforms to domestic support for agriculture in the OECD economies. In order to accomplish this goal, we begin by reviewing the literature on the impacts of domestic support on key variables, including farm...

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Handels- und Budgeteffekte der WTO-Agrarverhandlungen in der Doha-Runde: Der revidierte Harbinson-Vorschlag

Brockmeier, Martina; Salamon, Petra - 2004

A great deal of attention is currently being paid to the discussion ofthe reform of global agricultural trade. In this paper, the effects ofthe revised Harbinson paper (March 2003) are analysed with anextensively extended GTAP model. With the help of a base run,projections are implemented in the...

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The Effects of China's Tariff Reductions on EU Agricultural Exports

Niemi, Jyrki S.; Huan-Niemi, Ellen - 2002

China's accession to the WTO means significant increases in export opportunities for China's trading partners. This study attempts to identify and measure quantitatively the effects of changing economic environment and trade policies on China's agricultural imports from the European Union (EU)....

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