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Vulnerability and Resilience: Two Dimensions of Rurality

Freshwater, David - Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Kentucky - 2014

The paper provides an overview of the treatment of risk in economics as a way to connect the concept of risk, as used by economists, to the concern of other social science disciplines with how the parallel concepts of vulnerability and resilience affect rural and regional development. These...

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CLIMATE CHANGE AND PRODUCTION RISK IN CHINESE AQUACULTURE

Holst, Rainer; Yu, Xiaohua - 2010

Drawing on the method developed by Just and Pope (1978, 1979), this paper separately analyzes the marginal contributions of both regular input factors and climate factors to mean output and to production risk in Chinese inland aquaculture. Furthermore, the net change in output following a 1°C...

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Estimating Farm Level Multivariate Yield Distribution Using Nonparametric Methods

Zheng, Qiujie; Wang, H. Holly; Shi, Qinghua - 2008

Modeling crop yield distributions has been an important topic in agricultural production and risk analysis, and nonparametric methods have gained attention for their flexibility in describing the shapes of yield density functions. In this article, we apply a nonparametric method to model joint...

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Anatomy of Stigmatized Behavior: Peer Influence and Relative Concern

Chen, Xi - 2011

rural China, we examine blood sales (or more correctly, “donations with nutrition subsidy”), a widely regarded stigma …

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Risk Rationing in China Rural Credit Markets

Khantachavana, Sivalai V.; Turvey, Calum G.; Kong, Rong - 2011

The purpose of this paper is to provide a specific test of Boucher, Carter et al.(2008) framework on risk rationing. The data were collected through a survey of 730farm households in Shaanxi province conducted in November 2010. We comparefactor associated with risk rationed, quantity rationed...

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Weather Risk and the Viability of Weather Insurance In Western China

Turvey, Calum G.; Kong, Rong; Belltawn, Burgen - 2009

This paper presents preliminary results on the possible demand for weather insurance in China. Results from 1,564 farm … households from Western and Central China between October 2007 and October 2008 suggest that the greater risk for farmers is …

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Emission Permits Trade of Carbon Based on the Game Theory of Double Auction

Liu, Na; He, Jixin; Hou, Ning; Gu, Kaiping - 2009

As the world's largest carbon resources country with relatively great carbon emission, China in has just started its … carbon trade. China is only a passive participant in international carbon trading market, rarely participating in the project … resources. Then, feasibility of implementing auction system of emission permits trade in China is analyzed from the aspects of …

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Beyond symbolic responses to private politics : codes of conduct and improvement in global supply chain working conditions

Short, Jodi L.; Toffel, Michael W.; Hugill, Andrea R. - 2016

Activism seeking to improve labor conditions in global supply chains has led transnational corporations to adopt codes of conduct and monitor suppliers for compliance, but it is unclear whether these formal organizational structures raise labor standards. Drawing on thousands of audits conducted...

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ANZCO Foods Limited: Pursuing the Chinese Market

Conforte, Daniel; Jones, Nicky; Shadbolt, Nicola M.; … - In: International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 16 (2013) 1

The IFAMR is the flagship journal in Agribusiness published quarterly by IFAMA. More information can be found at: www.ifama.org

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Contractual Arrangements of Traders in Chinese Wholesale Markets

Yu, Xiaohua; Abler, David G.; Zeng, Yinchu - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

China. This study finds that market service and environment are very important for both contract choices and enforcement …

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