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Policies, Natural Resource Governance and Local Development

Massuanganhe, Israel Jacob - Department of Agricultural Economics, Universiteit van … - 2008

skills and output even in the absence of new technologies. The participation of citizens in all stages is crucial. …

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DETERMINANTS OF AGRICULTURAL LABOUR PARTICIPATION AMONG YOUTHS IN ABIA STATE, NIGERIA

Agwu, Nnanna Mba; Nwankwo, Emmanuel Eze; Anyanwu, … - In: International Journal of Food and Agricultural … 2, 1

The general objective of the study was to determine the factors that influenced youth participation in agricultural … the respondents in the study area, determine the factors that influence participation of the youths in agricultural labour … participation of all other farm operations outnumbered those of men. Estimates of the determinants of agricultural labour …

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Agricultural Contracts and Alternative Marketing Options: A Matching Analysis

Katchova, Ani L. - 2010

The increasing use of agricultural contracts and processor concentration raises concerns that processors may offer lower contract prices in absence of local competition. This study examines the price competitiveness of marketing and production contracts depending on the availability of...

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Distributional Impacts of Food Price Changes on Consumer Welfare in Hungary and Romania following EU Accession

Hubbard, Carmen; Szigeti, Judith; Podruzsik, Szilard - 2010

This paper focuses on the estimation of changes in economic welfare (real income) on different groups (income deciles) of Hungarian and Romanian consumers following food price changes as a result of accession to the European Union (EU) in 2004 and 2007. It identifies in both countries those...

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Value Chains and Chains of Values: Tracing Tanzanian Tea

Loconto, A. - 2010

The objective of this paper is to examine value chain governance through case studies of four different certified value chains for Tanzanian tea. This paper takes a look at a traditional export commodity, tea, and discusses the implications of involvement in value-based certification schemes...

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Effets d’un changement institutionnel, la réforme du protocole sucre (ACP-UE), sur la filière légumes frais à l’île Maurice.

Ramasawmy, B.; Fort, F. - 2010

This paper investigates the strategies adopted by economic actors in the context of an institutional change. We base ourselves on data collected as part of an exploratory study in the sugar and fresh vegetable supply chains in Mauritius. The reform of the sugar protocol between the European...

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Characteristics and organization of the Fairtrade market in Brazil

Valentini, Elena - 2010

Fair Trade is defined as a set of socio-economic activities which are alternative to traditional and international trade. It began from the belief that the principal market's laws tend to cause serious damage to the South, and especially to the many workers devoted to 'agriculture'.The concept...

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Friend or Foe? The Kyoto Protocol and the NZ Greenhouse Industry

Barber, Andrew; Parminter, Irene - 2004

The greenhouse sector has reinvented itself as a technologically advanced and relatively environmentally friendly industry over the past 15 years. However it remains a high energy user. Two recent surveys have highlighted the potential impact on greenhouse grower costs of the proposed emissions...

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Regional Economic Implications of Water Allocation and Reliability

Harris, Simon; Doak, Murray; Ford, Stuart; Bywater, Tony; … - 2005

The understanding of how allocation decisions can maximise the economic returns to the community from water for irrigation has received little attention, but is a significant issue for regional councils, those interested in water allocation policy development, and for irrigated farmers. There is...

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The Relationship Between Wildfire and Welfare

Kaval, Pamela; Loomis, John B. - 2005

We used the well-being evaluation method, a technique for measuring individual utility, to study how people in the wildland urban interface of Colorado (USA) felt about their lives before and after two wildfire scenarios. Variables such as age, family size, fire frequency, and house value were...

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