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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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evidence that vertical organization has significant effects on seed prices. These effects are found to vary depending on the …
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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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impact of the adoption decision of bund construction and seed dibbling on net returns, input demand and output supply … and non-adopters of dibbling seed. However, output supply and net returns were not found to be statistically different for …
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The aim of this paper is to elicit the sensitivity of farmers to payments for agro-environmental services in acontext of strong agro-ecological and policy constraints. We present results from a choice experimentsurvey performed among the whole population of agricultural decision-makers (104) in...
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This article aims to study the implications that result from the purpose differences between the biodynamic rice producer systemsand the industry of this product in the filière structure. The theoretical approach includes system comprehension and the companyvision in the systemic approach,...
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combined with intensified weeding. Furthermore, when dibbling is not only used as seed sowing but also as fertilizer …
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A plethora of literature exists on irrigation development. However, only a few studies analyse the distributional issues associated with irrigation induced technological changes (IITC) in the context of commodity markets. Furthermore, these studies deal with only the theoretical arguments and to...
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This paper empirically shows that innovation in Information Technology (IT) has become increasingly dependent on and intertwined with innovation in software. This change in the nature of IT innovation has had differential effects on the performance of the United States and Japan, two of the...
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This paper analyzes changes in U.S. agricultural technology during 1960-1999, emphasizing the role of immigrant workers on farm mechanization. The rates and directions of biased technological change based on the induced innovation theory are compared before and after the passage of the...
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