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The objective of this paper is to identify the strategies and instruments that agribusiness companies currently use to … agribusiness firms. The majority of respondents expect that the importance of the markets in the BRIC countries will increase … agribusiness companies are facing in the context of handling international markets, especially in BRIC countries. …
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In emerging markets for high-value food products in developing countries, processing companies search for efficient ways to source raw material of consistent quality. One widely embraced approach is contract farming. But relatively little is known about the appropriate design of contracts,...
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We study the effect of alleviating information asymmetry regarding product quality that is widespread in developing-country agricultural markets. Opportunistic buyers may underreport quality levels back to farmers to reduce the price they have to pay. In response, farmers may curb investment,...
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The promotion of oil palm production as an agribusiness development policy is a major issue in response to the … Agribusiness Venture Arrangement (AVA) mode through the field survey of the cooperatives in the provinces in Mindanao. In …
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the share of land held by an agribusiness in a village affects smallholder plot-level tenure security and investments in … agribusiness significantly increases the probability that a plot has tenure security. Moreover, our results reveal that a decrease …
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with the evolution of the Brazilian agribusiness labor market as a whole. The paper is part of a broader research project … the one hand, although agribusiness generated an increasingly smaller number of jobs within the sector itself, on the … agribusiness, which, through more capital-intensive and labor-saving technologies, has been able to increase its productivity and …
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The urban population growth in developing countries, the middle class expansion and the increase in per capita income have increased the demand for food. This work aims to identify, from the Constant Market Share (CMS) method, the sources of growth of agricultural exports among the main...
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the analysis of new organizations and governance frameworks in the agribusiness. Since this subject needs a deeper …
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The social responsibility of agribusiness is currently one of the highly debated issues. Factors such as the … Responsibility (CSR) highly relevant to Ukrainian agribusiness. The paper provides insights on the understanding of CSR by the …
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looks at whether managers in the agribusiness sector perceive corruption differently than do managers in other sectors. The … range of econometric models, however, do not reveal differences between agribusiness and other sectors at large. Only in two … of ten specifications do respondents from agribusiness tend to perceive corruption as occurring less frequently than do …
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