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Is geographic diversification sufficient to limit contract grower risk?
Geyser, Mariette; Louw, Andre; Botha, L. - 2009
Lending and financial institutions have looked for a variety of ways to expand their portfolios into agriculture, but because of the risks associated with lending to farmers who lack traditional forms of collateral, they face price and yield risks, causing these inroads to be limited....
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Measuring the Efficiency of Wheat Production of Western Australian Growers
Tozer, Peter R. - 2010
function model used was a relatively simpleinput model, consisting of wheat yield, effective rainfall, fertilizer application …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446041
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On measuring quality of a probabilistic commodity forecast for a system that incorporates seasonal climate forecasts
Potgieter, AB; Everingham, YL; Hammer, GL - 2003
Regional commodity forecasts are being used increasingly in agricultural industries to enhance their risk management and decision-making processes. These commodity forecasts are probabilistic in nature and are often integrated with a seasonal climate forecast system. The climate forecast system...
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Implications of seasonal climate forecasts on world wheat trade: a stochastic, dynamic analysis
Hill, HSJ; Mjelde, JW; Love, HA; Rubas, DJ; Fuller, SW; … - 2004
Improvements in seasonal climate forecasts have potential economic implications for international agriculture. A stochastic, dynamic simulation model of the international wheat economy is developed to estimate the potential effects of seasonal climate forecasts for various countries' wheat...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448390
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A novel hybrid technique for short-term electricity price forecasting in deregulated electricity markets
Hu, L - 2010
Short-term electricity price forecasting is now crucial practice in deregulated electricity markets, as it forms the basis for maximizing the profits of the market participants. In this thesis, short-term electricity prices are forecast using three different predictor schemes, Artificial Neural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009465358
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Community-based public health: an Online Decision Support Systems : for Logan city, Australia
Gudes, Ori; Kendall, Elizabeth; Yigitcanlar, Tan; … - 2009
Introduction Among the many requirements of establishing community health, a healthy urban environment stands out as significant one. A healthy urban environment constantly changes and improves community well-being and expands community resources. The promotion efforts for such an environment,...
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Harnessing ICT-based tool for improving the collaborative health planning debate : the case of Logan-Beaudesert, Australia
Gudes, Ori; Kendall, Elizabeth; Yigitcanlar, Tan; … - 2010
information communication technology (ICT) tools including geographic information systems (GIS) that provide the mechanisms to … that has been adopted to develop an online GIS-based DSS for health planners. The literature states that the overall aim of … minimizing judgmental biases. For this reason, the paper examines the effectiveness and impact of an innovative online GIS …
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Identifying rural disadvantage using a multiday travel diary
Kamruzzaman, Md.; Hine, Julian - 2010
relative performance in terms of these different indices and identify the nature of transport disadvantage. GIS was used to …
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PROTECTED HORTICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT. AN INTEGRAL DECISION MODEL FOR GREENHOUSE WASTE MANAGEMENT IN SOUTHEASTERN SPAIN
Gomez, Salvador Parra - 2008
recyclingprocess, to the tune of 4082777 € and 4794566 €, respectively. Likewise, a Geographical InformationSystem (GIS) has been used …
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USING INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY TO IMPROVE THE EFFICIENCY AND ACCURACY OF A UTILITY’S NETWORK DATA COLLECTION BUSINESS PROCESS
Van Olst, Rex - 2007
“You can see the computer age everywhere except in the productivity statistics”. Thisoffhand remark by Robert Solow, the Nobel prize-winning economist [1] has stimulatedmany other economists to conduct more rigorous analyses on the impact of informationtechnology on productivity.The research...
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