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Are Staple Foods Becoming More Expensive For Urban Consumers In Eastern And Southern Africa? Trends in Food Prices, Marketing Margins, and Wage Rates in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique,...
Mason, Nicole M.; Jayne, Thomas S.; Donovan, Cynthia; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009
Africa. This study investigates patterns in staple food prices, wage rates, and marketing margins for urban consumers in … and bread prices in urban Kenya and Zambia between the mid-1990s and 2007. Although the 2007/08 food price crisis … also grew more rapidly than rice and wheat flour prices in Maputo from the mid-1990s through the 2004/05 and 2006 …
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ESTIMATION OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND ELASTICITIES OF CALIFORNIA COMMODITIES
Russo, Carlo; Green, Richard D.; Howitt, Richard E. - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2008
The primary purpose of this paper is to provide updated estimates of domestic own-price, cross-price and income elasticities of demand and estimated price elasticities of supply for various California commodities. Flexible functional forms including the Box-Cox specification and the nonlinear...
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Der biologische Landbau in Österreich – Entwicklungen und Perspektiven
Freyer, Bernhard; Eder, Michael; Schneeberger, Walter; … - In: German Journal of Agricultural Economics 50 (2001) 7
Until now, organic farming in Austria saw its largest growth in the period between 1994 and 1998. The following factors all contributed to Austria achieving the highest percentage of organic farms in Europe: the early addition of guidelines for organic crop production and animal husbandry to the...
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Czy spekulacje finansowe wpływają na międzynarodowe ceny towarów rolno-żywnościowych?
Zawojska, Aldona - In: Problems of World Agriculture / Problemy Rolnictwa … 11 (2011) 26
In years 2007-2008, prices of food and agricultural products surged dramatically all round the world. The time series … analysis of monthly global prices from 1990 through April 2010 shows that prices for several commodity groups in 2007 …
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Konkurencyjność produktów polskiego rolnictwa po wejściu do UE
Mroczek, Robert - In: Problems of World Agriculture / Problemy Rolnictwa … 02 (2007) 17
European Union is a lower prices especially resulting from lower remuneration of labour as well as from lower costs of other …
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The Exchange Rate and U.S. Agricultural Exports
Edwards, Clark - In: Agricultural Economics Research (1987) 1
An export slump is one of the major problems plaguing U S agriculture Many of the world economic forces, that had turned against U S farmers m the early eighties have now changed The exchange rate is one of these forces This article presents a simulation of the disparate impacts of depreciation...
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U.S. Foreign Agricultural Trade of the United States, September /October 1985
Warden, Thomas - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1985
Rising foreign production, falling prices, and shrinking volume pushed down U.S. agricultural exports 17 percent in … year earller. Unfavorable weather conditions and higher prices for fruits, fruit juices, arr.d vegetable oils boosted U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010882858
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FATUS (Foreign Agricultural Trade of the United States), November/December1985
Warden, Tom - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1985
weather, supplies reduced prices and U.S. export volumes. and higher prices in the United States boosted the value of U … crops worldwide will continue depressing prices in FY 1986 ... The high value of the dollar and large stocks, rising …
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The Effects of Prices, Advertising, Expenditures, and Demographics on Demand for Nonalcoholic Beverages
Okrent, Abigail M.; MacEwan, Joanna P. - Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics …
We estimate a demand system for ten nonalcoholic beverages to disentangle effects of prices, expenditures, advertising … introduced beverages like soy, rice, and almond drinks, isotonic and energy drinks, and bottled water whereas changes in prices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010911082
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The Effects of Prices, Advertising, Expenditures, and Demographics on Demand for Nonalcoholic Beverages
Okrent, Abigail M.; MacEwan, Joanna P. - In: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 43 (2014) 1
We estimate a demand system for ten nonalcoholic beverages to disentangle effects of prices, expenditures, advertising … introduced beverages like soy, rice, and almond drinks, isotonic and energy drinks, and bottled water whereas changes in prices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010911094