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A EVOLUÇÃO DA INDÚSTRIA DE AGROTÓXICOS NO BRASIL DE 2001 A 2007: A EXPANSÃO DA AGRICULTURA E AS MODIFICAÇÕES NA LEI DE AGROTÓXICOS
Terra, Fabio Henrique Bittes; Pelaez, Victor Manoel - 2008
. From this, the agriculture’s performance supports pressure groups over the pesticides’ regulatory mark, in which … agriculture’s sector entities and pesticides’ industry representative entities have aimed to reduce the exigencies to register new … products, under the allegation that the pesticides’ price should fall, improving brazilian agricultural competitiveness and …
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Credence attributes standards and certification. A comparison of vegetable standards
Compes, Raul - 2002
RESUMEN: Cuando un producto tiene atributos de confianza que son valorados por los consumidores, el mercado no funciona de forma óptima. Si existen externalidades negativas derivadas del consumo y la producción es eficiente que el gobierno establezca normas sobre las características del...
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CASES ABOUT UTZ KAPEH CERTIFICATION IN INFORMATIZED COFFEE COMPANIES: IMPACTS ON EMPLOYESS, MANAGEMENT AND COMPETITIVINESS
Lo Turco Martinez, Joao Roberto; Dos Santos Jesus, Jose … - 2008
certification in the employees, in themanagement and in the competitiveness of two rural coffee companies, located in theSouth of … evidencedthe greatest impact of certification in management of the organizations and theimportance of a net (Cooperative) as a form …
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Price Discrimination in the Context of Vertical Differentiation: An Application to Canadian Wheat Exports
Lavoie, Nathalie - 2002
This study examines the ability of the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) to price discriminate in bread wheat exports. This study models wheat as a vertically differentiated intermediate good and modifies the model of vertical differentiation by Mussa and Rosen to the realities of wheat import demand....
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Estimation of Cost Pass Through to Michigan Consumers in the ADM Price Fixing Case
Cotterill, Ronald W. - 1998
This report analyzes the economic impact of price fixing in the wet corn milling industry on consumers in the State of Michigan. Two of the companies who produce citric acid have pleaded guilty to fixing its price. In this report we assume that price fixing also occurred among HFCS producers....
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A Reexamination of the U.S. Export Demand for Soybeans and Soybean Products
Uri, Noel D.; Hyberg, Bengt - 1994
This paper addresses the question of whether the export demand for soybeans and soybean products changed structurally over the 1950 to 1992 period as the U.S. agricultural sector became more integrated with the rest of the world economy. The results suggest that export demands were stable for...
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How to increase the effectiveness of agri-environmental subsidy schemes through knowledge of farmer perceptions-a choice experiment on pesticide free buffer zones
Christensen, Tove; Pedersen, Anders Branth; Nielsen, … - 2010
Danish farmers have been far less interested in agri-environmental subsidy schemes than anticipated. We use choiceexperiments to estimate 486 Danish farmers’ preferences for a number of policy relevant scheme-characteristics.Subsidy schemes for pesticide free buffer zones along hedgerows are...
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UMA ANÁLISE DA RELAÇÃO ENTRE OS PREÇOS DOS BIOCOMBUSTÍVEIS E DAS CULTURAS ALIMENTARES NO BRASIL: O CASO DO SETOR SUCROALCOOLEIRO
Melo, Andre De Souza; Mota, Daniela Gonzaga Da; Lima, … - 2008
Este trabalho tem como objetivo analisar o impacto do crescimento do preço de etanol no preço do açúcar. Para tal análise utiliza-se a metodologia de vetores autorregressivos para identificar a relação de causalidade entre os preços do etanol e do açúcar. O crescimento do preço do...
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Why Don't Country Elevators Pay Less for Low Quality Wheat? Information, Producer Preferences and Prospect Theory
Adam, Brian D.; Hong, Seung Jee - 2001
Previous research found that country elevators that are the first in their area to grade wheat and pay quality-adjusted prices would receive above-normal profits at the expense of their competitors. Because of spatial monopsony, these early-adopting elevators would pass on to producers only 70%...
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Spatial Price Integration in U.S. and Mexican Rice Markets
Weber, K.; Lee, David R. - 2006
Agricultural trade between the U.S. and Mexico has become progressively liberalized over the past 20 years, with significant increases in bilateral trade in many sectors. The rice sector in both nations, however, continues to be highly protected, with producers and millers on both sides of the...
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