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sources, FPCs initiated by farmers are more inclined to introduce centralized decision-making. The governance structure of …
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While traders of agricultural products are known to often exercise market power, this power has rarely been quantified for developing countries. In order to derive a measure, we estimate the traders' revenue functions and calculate the Marginal Value Products directly from them. We subsequently...
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There is an emerging body of literature analyzing how smallholder farmers in developing countries can be linked to modern supply chains. However, most of the available studies concentrate on farm and farmer characteristics, failing to capture details of institutional arrangements between farmers...
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Vietnamese dairy sector to analyze the effectiveness of existing contracts between a processor and smallholder farmers in terms …
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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 concerned parties to raise agricultural productivity. The paper also evaluates the effectiveness of contract farming …
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enablers of collaborative network development on this food industry niche market and the barriers that currently restrict its … collaborative network on the organic market niche, how their perceived compatibility of a retailers' business model and how their … perceived risks connected to commitment to the collaborative network affect the wider adoption of collective networks, using …
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Contracts may be subject to strategic default, particularly if public enforcement institutions are weak. In a lab experiment, we study behavior in a contract farming game without third-party enforcement but with an external spot market as outside option. Two players, farmer and company, may...
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the efficiency of risk management and identifies the factors (personal, institutional, dimensional, technological, and … natural) of governance choice. Next, it presents stages in the analysis of risk management and the improvement of public … intervention in the governance of risk. Finally, it identifies the contemporary opportunities and challenges for risk governance in …
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that one could understand how contractual systems work in the situation when crises appear thanks to governance … determinants of governance structure between farmers and dairy processors in Hungary. The source of the research is a theoretical … and governance structures. These gave the theoretical determinants of testable prepositions. In the framework of a postal …
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