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Assessing Domestic Demand for Organic and ‘Locally Grown' Produce on An ‘Organic Island': Dominica's Dilemma
Boys, Kathryn A.; Willis, David B.; George, Seraphine; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011
interest in transforming Dominica into an Organic Island (‘Organic Dominica') by 2015. Through this initiative, sustainable …, organic agricultural production methods will be encouraged. Complementing this, a ‘Buy Organic, Locally Grown' campaign has …, ‘Organic Dominica' has the potential to simultaneously address ongoing national concerns surrounding food security, foreign …
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Food Standards, Certification, and Poverty among Coffee Farmers in Uganda
Chiputwa, Brian; Qaim, Matin; Spielman, David J. - Institut für Agrarökonomie, Georg-August-Universität … - 2013
three sustainability oriented standards – Fairtrade, Organic, and UTZ – on the livelihoods of smallholder coffee farmers in …
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Can Agribusiness Feed 3 Billion New People…and Save the Planet? A GLIMPSE into the Future
Connolly, Aidan J.; Phillips-Connolly, Kate - In: International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 15 (2012) B
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Agribusiness output and income results in the EU countries
Mrówczyńska-Kamińska, Aldona; Kiryluk-Dryjska, Ewa - In: Problems of World Agriculture / Problemy Rolnictwa … 11 (2011) 26
The objective of the research is to compare the importance of agribusiness in the economies of the EU countries. The … results suggest that the agribusiness share in national economy and its internal structure depends on the country’s level of …
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The Doctoral Program of the French Ministry of Agriculture: An Institutional and Individual Win–Win
Cadilhon, Jean-Joseph - In: International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 15 (2012) A
global talent gap in agribusiness. www.ifama.org …
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An Analysis of the Recent Evolution of Mali’s Maize Subsector
Diallo, Amadou Sekou - 2011
In most developing countries, historically, the main strategy for improving the food sector has focused on increasing farm-level production. But in recent years, with the emphasis on value chain analysis, there has been much more focus on subsector studies, demand-driven approaches, and...
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Modeling Agricultural Innovation in a Rapidly Developing Country: The Case of Chinese Pesticide Industry
Shi, Guanming; Pray, Carl - 2011
Technology and innovation play an increasingly important role in the economic development of both developed and developing countries. We investigate how policy and market factors influence firms’ (or other potential innovators’) decisions on innovation or imitation by developing a conceptual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444336
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Measuring the poverty impact of ACIAR projects: a broad framework
Pearce, David - 2002
This report sets out some broad ideas about how poverty evaluation could be conducted for ACIAR research projects. As with good benefit–cost analysis, there are good practices that need to be observed when undertaking poverty analysis. While poverty is a broad concept, and can be addressed...
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The Role of Market Power in Agricultural Contracts
Cordero Salas, Paula - 2009
I study the economic consequences of shifting bargaining power in relational contracts through interventions such as the formation of a Bargaining Group (BG) for the side of sellers in a market where buyers traditionally hold significant market power. Existing theories of relational contracts...
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Do Consumers Really Care about Biotech Food Label? What Do We Know? What Else Should We Know?
Chen, Xi; Zhong, Funing; Zhou, Bin - 2008
This paper is Selected for presentation at the Southern Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, January 31-February 3, 2009. The research is partially funded by ERS/USDA China Project and Social Science Fund of Jiangsu Province in China. The authors are grateful for...
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