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Understanding Crowdsourcing of Agricultural Market Information in a Pilot Study: Promises, Problems and Possibilities (3Ps)
Barakabitze, Alcardo Alex; Fue, Kadeghe Goodluck; Juma, … - In: International Journal of Technology Diffusion (IJTD) 8 (2017) 4, pp. 1-16
Access to agricultural markets and marketing information are essential factors in promoting competitive markets and … improving agricultural sector development. The agricultural sector employs majorities in developing countries and contributes … appropriate access to markets for their products and also, they are deprived of agricultural market information. As results …
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AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF THAILAND'S RICE TRADE
MEENAPHANT, SORRAYUTH; MEENAPHANT, SORRAYUTH - 1981
This study is an analysis of Thailand's rice export sector with reference to three major issues: government trade policy, trade performance, and the structure of trade preferences. In analyzing the rice trade policy, particularly the rice premium, both theoretical and empirical analyses were...
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The Chilean agricultural transformation during the second half of the twentieth century: A story of institutional change
Saravia, Antonio - 2008
The second half of the twentieth century witnessed a dramatic transformation of the Chilean agricultural sector. From … accounting for only five percent of the value of Chile's total exports in the late 1960s, agricultural exports grew to account … the transformation of the Chilean agricultural sector can be associated with institutional changes or modifications to the …
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The Economics of Malaria Vector Control
Brown, Zachary Steven - 2011
In recent years, government aid agencies and international organizations have increased their financial commitments to controlling and eliminating malaria from the planet. This renewed emphasis on elimination is reminiscent of a previous worldwide campaign to eradicate malaria in the 1960s, a...
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Incorporating options and forecast information in producer hog marketing strategies: Conceptual and measurement issues
Adam, Brian Dale - 1990
Both options and better information about prices have been proposed to increase the attractiveness of livestock hedging strategies. This study examines the value of incorporating both into hedging strategies for live hogs. A two-period simulation model in which a hog producer chooses a hedging...
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Rules for water allocation in a small watershed: A game theoretic approach
Saleth, R. Maria - 1989
Exchanges of either long term rights (property right transfer) or spot rights (rights rental) to water may result in third party effects that place practical limits on the geographic scope of a water market. The result will be a market with few eligible participants. A "thin" market suffers from...
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Financial and managerial implications of mergers and acquisitions in food industries in the 1980s
Declerck, Francis - 1992
Food firms can improve their profits by focusing on one or a few specialized activities because of efficiency gains and/or market power benefits. This study documents that profits increase with increasing concentration for firms in food industries whose top-4-concentration ratio is greater than 38%.
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Imperfect competition and exchange rate pass-through in the international rice market
Yumkella, Kandeh Kolleh - 1992
As a result of the unique segmentation of the international rice market, and the dominance of US and Thailand within certain market segments, a model of monopolistic price discrimination is developed in this study to examine export price adjustment in response to exchange rate fluctuations. The...
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Cointegration relations between spot and futures prices for selected commodities: Implications for hedging and forecasting
Lu, Richard - 1994
Cointegration analysis is used to study the spot and futures price relationships for two storable commodities, corn and soybeans, and a nonstorable commodity, live hogs, over a 13-year period, 1980 to 1992. For corn and soybeans, cointegration is found in most pre-harvest contracts (July), and...
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An agency/transactions-costs approach and application to vertical coordination arrangements in food and agricultural markets
Lajili, Kaouthar - 1995
A micro-analytic approach based on an integration of elements from Agency and Transactions-cost theories, was followed to develop a theoretical framework for characterizing vertical coordination decisions at the firm level. Vertical coordination modes were defined as all possible arrangements...
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