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This study estimates the effects on poverty resulting from maize price changes associated with the operations of the maize marketing board in Kenya. We consider both supply and demand responses and the accompanying adjustments in rural labor markets in estimating a second order approximation to...
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This report sets out some broad ideas about how poverty evaluation could be conducted for ACIAR research projects. As with good benefit–cost analysis, there are good practices that need to be observed when undertaking poverty analysis. While poverty is a broad concept, and can be addressed...
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This paper examines potential of contract farming as a rural development tool by revealing its effect on productivity and income of small holders in tea production in north-western Vietnam. In the present research, three economic analyses are applied. First, the technical efficiency of tea...
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Commercial rice imports have accounted for approximately 61%, food aid in rice accounted for about 2%, and domestic rice accounted for some 37% per annum of rice consumption in Ghana over the four years between 2000 and 2003. Compared to the 1990s, these figures show a gradual decline in the...
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policy analysis undertaken by EPWG members on the use of SFMT by smallholders. Financial and risk analysis tools, selected …
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Brazil, Turkey, and the USA. The study focuses ona wider supply chain or network perspective for the risk assessment …. Methodically the assessedrisks were classified and then evaluated using a risk map matrix. Results point out nonacceptablerisks and … show the differences concerning the risk evaluation in the different valuechains. Results provide interesting supply chain …
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This study compares liquidity costs of electronic and open-outcry wheat futures contractstraded side-by-side on the … Kansas City Board of Trade. Liquidity costs are considerablylower in the electronic market. Liquidity costs in the electronic ….Price volatility and transaction size are positively related to liquidity costs, while a negativerelation is found between daily volume …
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applications of risk and stochastic programming models focus on the optimisation of production planning, while literature on the … paper is to analyse the effects of different risk management instruments on the certainty equivalent of case study farms in … three different regions. Specifically, the applied Expected Utility Model analyses on-farm risk management instruments and …
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Esse trabalho teve como objetivo verificar a viabilidade financeira da implementação de um sistema automatizado de irrigação por miniaspersão na cultura do feijão. O trabalho toma como referência a teoria de análise financeira de investimentos, considerando a abordagem determinística e...
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