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Vor dem Hintergrund der Integration Polens in die Europäische Union (EU) werden in der vorliegenden Arbeit die Auswirkungen verschiedener agrarpolitischer Optionen untersucht. Als mögliche Varianten wurden dabei die Agenda 2000 sowie eine vollständige Liberalisierung der Gemeinsamen...
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The main subject is the examination of the different strategies employed by Lithuania, Poland and Hungary during the …
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This study focuses on public investments and policy reforms for leveraging growth spillovers at the Africaregional level. It reviews first the theory and evidence of knowledge and growth spillovers generally andsecond the evidence in the African context. Given the limited and scattered evidence...
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Livestock farming is an important facet of agriculture and livelihood in South Africa. It forms the essence of rural agriculture contributing food, socio-economic stability, employment and income. After the liberalization of the agricultural sector and phasing out of past protection mechanisms...
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"Watershed governance typically relies on more or less formal inter-organizational networks whose structure is likely to influence the success of cooperation. An emerging body of literature seeks to analyze the role of networks in natural resource management. This paper aims at contributing to...
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"Talks on agricultural trade liberalization at the World Trade Organization must take into account the needs of commodity-dependent developing countries, to ensure that agricultural trade and commodity production will deliver outcomes that favour both the environment and poverty reduction....
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The strategic components of the institutional mechanism of the agricultural sector should be: an institution of government regulation; institution of property; institution of employment; institution of entrepreneurship; institution of contracting; institution of pricing; institution of...
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Cooperative formation in agriculture sometimes occurs in response to the exit of a private firm and typically requires … the efficient financial contract in this context as a “cooperative.” …
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. However, cooperative managers are often reluctant to actively manage risk. Although the “risk management irrelevance … proposition” suggests that cooperative managers should be unable to add shareholder value through risk management activities, this … risk management strategies can improve the risk-return profile of a typical cooperative.Keywords: cooperative, expected …
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Entrepreneurship is predominantlyassociated with the activities of an individual actor –the entrepreneur. It has also been related to theconcept of firm ownership (e.g. Foss and Klein,2005). This may lead to the conjecture that acollectively-owned firm is a setting for...
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