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Commodity Payments, Farm Business Survival, and Farm Size Growth
Key, Nigel D.; Roberts, Michael J. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2007
In the last 25 years, U.S. crop farms have steadily declined in number and grown in average size, as production has shifted to larger operations. Larger farms tend to receive more commodity program payments because most payments are tied to a farm’s current or historical production, but...
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Machinery Leasing And Custom Services By Cooperatives And Other Dealers
Biser, Lloyd C. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1979
When earnings decline in the face of rising production costs, farmers may find leasing and renting more attractive than owning their equipment. This-study provides information to cooperative machinery dealers and production credit associations on the benefits, drawbacks, and potential of leasing...
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Justified hopes or utopian thinking? The suitability of coffee certification schemes as a business model for small-scale producers
Beuchelt, Tina; Zeller, Manfred; Oberthur, Thomas - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
producers in northern Nicaragua who are organized in conventional, organic, and organic-fairtrade certified cooperatives. Our … seen in low yield levels, indebtedness, lack of entrepreneurial skills as well as cooperatives’ management capacities. We …
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Internationalization and Firm Performance in Agribusiness: Empirical Evidence from European Cooperatives
Heyder, Matthias; Makus, Christian; Theuvsen, Ludwig - In: International Journal on Food System Dynamics 02 (2011) 1
The ongoing internationalization of markets has become a major issue also for companies of the agribusiness …. Nevertheless, neither the degree of internationalization of agribusiness firms nor the internationalization …-performance relationship in the agribusiness sector have been analyzed thoroughly so far. To help fill this void, we use panel data compiled …
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Building a Better Livestock Market in Benin and a Safer, More Reliable Food Supply
Newman, Eric A.; Newman, Mark D. - In: International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 17 (2014) B
The IFAMR is published quarterly by the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association. For complete …
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Innovation in Food Networks and Organizational Diversity: A Case Study from the UK Retail Cooperative Sector
Sodano, Valeria; Hingley, Martin - International European Forum on System Dynamics and … - 2009
The still ongoing processes of consolidation and globalization affect the organizational diversity of the food system … the role and the competitiveness of cooperatives with respect to other organizational forms. …
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Commercial Agricultural Production in Tanzania: Mountainside Farms Limited
Simpson, John Y.; Cheong, Qing Yang - In: International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 17 (2014) B
The IFAMR is published quarterly by the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association. For complete …
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Franchising jako forma prowadzenia działalności w agrobiznesie (w świetle opinii rolników)
Goszka, Witold; Zielak, Karol - In: Problems of World Agriculture / Problemy Rolnictwa … 02 (2007) 17
This article is describing selected aspects of franchising and its implementation in the agricultural activity of farmers. A research showed that farmers belied in the possibility of success in agriculture, even though they do not know the specific form of cooperation such as franchising. The...
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Proceedings of the Privatization Workshop held in Sudan, 1996.
International Water Management Institute (IWMI); … - 1996
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Small forests, big ambitions and a hard reality - Community Forestry in Nepal
Rai, Chandra; Bigsby, Hugh R.; MacDonald, Ian - New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2010
Community forestry in Nepal is intended to reduce poverty by sustainable management of forests. Timber is one of the most high-value forest products, especially in the case of Sal (Shorea robusta) forests in the Terai region of Nepal. Despite having several advantages, including high value...
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