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Is farm benchmarking the new acceptable face of comparative analysis?
Fleming, Euan M.; Farrell, Terence C.; Villano, Renato A.; … - In: Australasian Agribusiness Review 14 (2006)
In this paper, we assess the potential for rehabilitation of comparative analysis under its new guise of benchmarking. After a brief description of comparative analysis, we discuss the deficiencies that surrounded its fall in reputation: neglect of economic principles, limited scope for action,...
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Climate change, the monsoon, and tea yields in China
Nemec-Boehm, Rebecca L.; Cash, Sean B.; Anderson, Bruce T. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014
The objective of this research is to estimate the economic impact of climate change on tea production in China. We use … partial effect of specific weather factors on tea yields in China, with a specific focus on monsoon dynamics. We base our … mostly on staple crops like maize as well as other food crops like fruits and vegetables, but tea is an important export crop …
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Analysis of Country of Origin Labeling for Food Products in Taiwan Using Auction Experiment with Tasting
Chern, Wen S.; Lin, Huei-Ching - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011
regression results show that tasting raised bids for Taiwan and China teas, but lowered bids for Vietnam tea. The econometric … from China and Vietnam. Our experiment was designed to investigate the impacts of product tasting on bidding behavior. The …
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Hog Options: Contract Redesign and Market Efficiency
Urcola, Hernan A.; Irwin, Scott H. - 2010
This article tests the efficiency of the hog options market and assesses the impact of the 1996 contract redesign on efficiency. We find that the hog options market is efficient, but some options yielded excess returns during the live hogs period but not during the lean hogs period. Our findings...
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Has Imported Rice Crowded-out Domestic Rice Production in Ghana? What has Been the Role of Policy?
Asuming-Brempong, Samuel; Osei-Asare, Yaw Bonsu - 2008
Commercial rice imports have accounted for approximately 61%, food aid in rice accounted for about 2%, and domestic rice accounted for some 37% per annum of rice consumption in Ghana over the four years between 2000 and 2003. Compared to the 1990s, these figures show a gradual decline in the...
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2009
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Efficiency of selected risk management instruments. An empirical analysis of risk reduction in Kazakhstani crop production
Heidelbach, Olaf - 2007
Kazakhstan?s agricultural sector plays an important role in the country'seconomy. Not only does it function as an economic output producer, it alsoserves as a social buffer in times of transition to a market economy. Therestructuring process had a strong impact on the economic performance...
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Planting strategies of maize farmers in Kenya: a simultaneous equations analysis in the presence of discrete dependent variables
Hassan, Rashid M. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 15 (1996) 2
A fairly comprehensive range of planting choices made by maize farmers in Kenya (including discrete endogenous variables creating self-selectivity) is modelled and estimated as one system of interrelated decisions. Two-stage and three-stage probit procedures are used to handle the simultaneity...
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Impact of Source and Quality on the Demand for Rice Imported in Cote d’Ivoire
Coulibaly, Jeanne Y. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
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SOUTHEASTERN BLUEBERRY GROWERS’ WILLINGNESS TO ADOPT ALTERNATIVE PRODUCTION PRACTICES
Head, Susan E.; Morgan, Kimberly L.; Riley, John Michael; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
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