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supply chain in Zhejiang province in China indicate that IOFs obtain a higher value added or value added rate than farmer …
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Particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, agriculture is predominantly rain-fed and, therefore, prone to unstable weather conditions and less productive than in other regions of the world. Increasing the efficiency and sustainability of farmer groups and cooperatives is of primary importance to many...
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large agribusinesses in the People's Republic of China, this paper intends to reveal how these reports are used to respond … the differences in the two sets of reports are tightly linked to the broader social and institutional settings in China. …
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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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lost ground to Germany, which unlike the French economy presented notorious performance in exports. China experienced a …), while developed economies (the United States and European countries) plus China (this country due to its own internal …
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