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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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Regional Food Hub Resource Guide
Barham, James; Tropp, Debra; Enterline, Kathleen; … - Agricultural Marketing Service, Department of Agriculture - 2012
effective way to overcome these infrastructural and market barriers. By offering a combination of production, aggregation …
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Moving Food Along the Value Chain: Innovations in Regional Food Distribution
Diamond, Adam; Barham, James - Agricultural Marketing Service, Department of Agriculture - 2012
This report examines the aggregation, distribution, and marketing of eight food value chains to glean practical lessons … (CAFF) in 2005 to offer aggregation, distribution, market promotion, and education services to California family farms. In … for the aggregation, transportation, and sale of a wide variety of produce supplied by 35–40 farmers to grocery stores and …
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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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Urban Water Restrictions: Attitudes, Information and Willingness to Pay
Cooper, Bethany; Crase, Lin - 2009
In most urban cities across Australia, water restrictions remain the dominant policymechanism to restrict urban water consumption. The extensive adoption of waterrestrictions over several years means that Australian urban water prices have consistently not reflected the opportunity cost of water...
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A Simulation Approach to Comparing Multiple Site Recreation Demand Models Using Chesapeake Bay Survey Data
Kling, Catherine L. - 1987
To value water quality improvements in the Chesapeake Bay or elsewhere, it is necessary to choose an appropriate model of consumer behavior. A number of different travel cost based recreation demand models have beenemployed to value changes in water quality or beach access. Among the possible...
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Trends in wine production and trade
Lazanyi, Janos - 2008
Historically, wine production and consumption have been at home in Europe. The most important countries mentionable areFrance, Italy, Germany, Spain, Greece, Portugal, Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary. The European Union (EU 27) occupies a leadingposition on the world wine market....
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Are Staple Food Markets in Africa Efficient? Spatial Price Analyses and Beyond
Rashid, Shahidur; Minot, Nicholas - 2010
Paper to be presented at the Comesa policy seminar“Food price variability: Causes, consequences, and policy options"on 25-26 January 2010 in Maputo, Mozambiqueunder the Comesa-MSU-IFPRI African Agricultural Markets Project (AAMP)
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Garment Industry and Economic Empowerment: A case study of Swaziland
Panin, Anthony; Mthombo, Thabile T. - 2008
This paper examines the extent to which garment industry in Swaziland has contributed to the economic empowerment of the Swazi people through creation of new jobs and improvement in their overall welfare. In Swaziland as elsewhere in many African countries, unemployment has been and is still a...
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Non-Credit Services of Group-Based Financial Institutions: Implications for Smallholder Women’s Honey Income in Arid and Semi Arid Lands of Kenya
Otieno, Peter Shimon; Nyikal, Rose Adhiambo; Mugivane, … - 2008
This paper analyses the effect of non-credit services of joint liability credit institutions on smallholder women beekeepers’ honey income. The non-credit services offered to the beekeepers are mainly enterprise development services (training on marketing, business, production and subsector...
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