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Dynamic Effects of Grain and Energy Prices on the Catfish Feed and Farm Sectors

Muhammad, Andrew; Zheng, Hualu - 2010

This study examines the dynamic effects of grain prices and energy prices on catfish feed prices and the price of food …-run relationship between feed and farm prices and their determinants was confirmed. Given the effect of corn and soybean meal prices on … catfish feed prices, and catfish fish feed prices on farm prices, the long-run responsiveness of feed prices to a percentage …

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Dynamic Effects of Grain and Energy Prices on the Catfish Feed and Farm Sectors

Muhammad, Andrew; Zheng, Hualu - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 42 (2010) 04

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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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Determinants of Commitment to Agricultural Cooperatives: Cashew Nuts Farmers in Benin

Mensah, Edouard R.; Karantininis, Kostas; Adegbidi, Anselme - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

results reveal that the commitment to membership depends on the assessment of prices offered by the marketing channels, the …; the commitment to business depends on prices and transaction costs in the channels. Our findings call cooperatives for …

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Effects of Family, Friends, and Relative Prices on Fruit and Vegetable Consumption by African American Youths

Zhylyevskyy, Oleksandr; Jensen, Helen H.; Garasky, Steven B. - 2011

interactions and relative prices on fruit and vegetable consumption by African American youths using rich behavioral data from the … Family and Community Health Study and area-specic food prices. We find the presence of endogenous effects between a youth … and parent,but not between a youth and friend. Lower relative prices of fruits and vegetables tend to increase intakes …

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Delving into Choice Internals: A Joint Discrete Choice/Attribute Rating Model

Gubanova, Tatiana; Volinskiy, Dmitriy; Adamowicz, Wiktor L. - 2008

Multi-attribute modeling has rapidly progressed from being a novelty to becoming a widely used tool of economic research. When both choice and attribute ratings data are available, a model that makes joint use of both offers informative inference opportunities. In the present study we develop a...

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Accommodating Complex Substitution Patterns in a Random Utility Model of Recreational Fishing

Hunt, Len M.; Boxall, Peter C.; Boots, Barry - 2007

We employed a cross-nested logit (CNL) model that permits a rich pattern of substitution among alternatives within a closed form choice model. The specification we employed is ideal for applications with many choice alternatives, such as the 431 fishing sites in this application. The CNL model...

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