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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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A Seismic Change: Land Control in Africa. Is this a Wake Up Call for Agribusiness?
Connolly, Aidan J.; Phillips-Connolly, Kate; Lyons, Mark - In: International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 15 (2012) 2
land grab, Africa, land ownership, development, agribusiness …
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The Scientific Pluralism of Agribusiness: A Special Issue on Theory and Practice: Forward
Harrison, R. Wes; Ng, Desmond W. - In: International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 14 (2011) 5
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The Demand for Specialty-Crop Insurance: Adverse Selection and Inefficiency
Richards, Timothy J.; Mischen, Pamela - 1998
The twin problems of moral hazard and adverse selection are often blamed for the lack of insurance for many fruits and vegetables. This paper develops an alternative method of testing for adverse selection that uses a two-stage approach to determine the effects of technical inefficiency on the...
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Sustainability Strategies in U.S. Agribusiness: Understanding Key Drivers, Objectives, and Actions
Rankin, Amber; Gray, Allan W.; Boehlje, Michael D.; … - 2011
This study explores the domain of sustainability from the agribusiness perspective by establishing levels or stages of ….S. agribusiness managers, results indicate that strong management pressures have a positive and highly significant relation-ship with …
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ANÁLISE COMPARATIVA ENTRE ESTRATÉGIAS DE HEDGE COM BASE EM MODELOS ESTÁTICOS E DINÂMICOS PARA CONTRATOS FUTUROS DE CAFÉ ARÁBICA
Muller, Carlos Andre Da Silva; Moura, Altair Dias de; … - 2008
among the products inside the Brazilian agribusiness, and it is a important product to the Brazilian economy. The futures …
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Media Analysis on Volatile Markets’ Dynamics and Adaptive Behavior for the Agri-Food System
von Davier, Zazie; Heyder, Matthias; Theuvsen, Ludwig - 2010
The volatility of agricultural markets has increased remarkably in recent years. In spite of this, the way in which supply chain actors perceive market volatility has only rarely been analyzed. This paper seeks to close this research gap by presenting empirical findings about how the volatility...
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A model-based approach to moral hazard in food chains - What contribution do principal-agent-models make to the understanding of food risks induced by opportunistic behaviour?
Hirschauer, Norbert - 2004
Food risks may be caused by moral hazard, i.e. by opportunisticbehaviour of upstream sellers who exploit the fact that many foodproduct qualities remain uncertain to downstream buyers in thecourse of conventional market transactions (credence qualities).Due to this lack of market transparency...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443685
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Investment Analysis of Agri-Food Ventures: What Risk Premia are Appropriate? The Silence of the Literature
Unterschultz, James R.; Quagrainie, Kwamena K. - 1996
Financial principles of project investment analysis deal with the cost and benefit flows over time. Invariably, the correct future cash flows and exact risks are unknown. The agricultural academic literature devotes substantial energy to discussing the estimation of the cash flows but it is...
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NEW INSTRUMENTS FOR CO-ORDINATION AND RISK SHARING WITHIN THE CANADIAN BEEF INDUSTRY
Unterschultz, James - 2000
in this report.A number of standard risk tools, derivatives, exist. Futures contracts, basis, options and forward … receiving these data which is important if the industry is to move beyond value-based-pricing. Standard market based risk … can be priced as a portfolio of long European puts and short European calls using special combinations of standard option …
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