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A PLURIATIVIDADE NO NORDESTE E NO SUL DO BRASIL
Nascimento, Carlos Alves - Sociedade Brasileira de Economia e Sociologia Rural - SOBER - 2006
pluriatividade mostrando que, no Brasil, o número de famílias rurais pluriativas tende a crescer em regiões pobres (caso do Nordeste … pensar, o crescimento da pluriatividade em áreas rurais de uma determinada região acha-se associado muito mais à presença de … pluriatividade entre as famílias conta-próprias pobres não consegue reverter a combinação ‘proletarização com empobrecimento’ em …
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A AGROINDÚSTRIA CANAVIEIRA PARAIBANA: IMPLICAÇÕES DA CRISE NO EMPREGO E NA ARRECADAÇÃO TRIBUTÁRIA NA DÉCADA DE 1990
Souto, Kenyis Candido; Cavalcanti, Guilherme De Albuquerque - Sociedade Brasileira de Economia e Sociologia Rural - SOBER - 2006
A cultura da cana-de-açúcar foi implantada na Paraíba em 1586. Desde então, o desenvolvimento do setor, apresentou momentos de crescimento e de crise. Porém, a partir de 1986, observou-se com mais intensidade, uma tendência recessiva que se agravou na década de 1990. Sendo assim, o...
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Contract farming and smallholder incentives to produce high quality: experimental evidence from the Vietnamese dairy sector
Saenger, Christoph; Qaim, Matin; Torero, Maximo; … - Institut für Agrarökonomie, Georg-August-Universität … - 2012
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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Foreword: Special Issue on the Economics of Local Food Markets
Just, David R.; Blalock, Garrick - In: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 40 (2011) 1
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Farming and the Internet: Reasons for Non-Use
Briggeman, Brian C.; Whitacre, Brian E. - In: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 39 (2010) 3
Rural broadband infrastructure and service has received a significant amount of funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. These funds should increase broadband availability, but will broadband be used in rural areas and in particular by farmers? This paper uses...
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Strategies for Developing Domestic and International Markets for Nicaragua's Dairy Products
Dobson, William D. - Bancock Institute for International Dairy Research and … - 2003
This paper analyzes the capacity of Nicaragua's dairy industry to expand domestic dairy product sales and exports profitably. The paper (a) presents information on traits of Nicaragua's dairy industry that influence domestic and export market expansion capabilities, and (b) benchmarks...
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A PRELIMINARY FEASIBILITY FOR ESTABLISHING A MULTI-SPECIES MEAT PROCESSING PLANT IN SOUTHWESTERN NORTH DAKOTA
Nudell, Daniel J.; Kraenzel, David G.; Petry, Timothy A.; … - Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics, North … - 1999
The number of small commodity livestock slaughter plants in the Upper Northern Plains region continues to decline. Significant factors contributing to this decline include: 1) pressure to consolidate, thereby capturing economies of scale; 2) relatively stringent federal inspection specifications,...
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The Food and Fiber System: Contributing to the U.S. and World Economies
Lipton, Kathryn L. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1998
Even though farming accounts for only about 1 percent of the total national workforce, it is at the core of the food and fiber system. The system is one of the largest sectors in the U.S. economy, and is comprised of industries related to farming, including feed, seed, fertilizer, machinery,...
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Development of Rural Manufacturing SME Clusters in a Developing Country: The Indonesian Case
Tambunan, Tulus - In: Journal of Rural Development/Nongchon-Gyeongje 31 (2008) 2
Development of manufacturing small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is a key engine to promote development of rural economy in developing countries. A common industrial organization among manufacturing SMEs, especially in rural areas, in Indonesia as in many other developing countries is...
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The measurement of farmers' risk attitudes using a non-structural approach
Kim, Tae-Hun - In: Journal of Rural Development/Nongchon-Gyeongje 31 (2008) 2
This study estimates farmers' risk attitudes in Missouri using a non-structural approach over time. The non-structural approach proposed by Antle (1989) allows for multiple outputs and various types of risk faced by farmers and doesn't require specific functional forms for utility or production....
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