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This paper aims to analyze how contracts are determined and modified given diverse agricultural settings and to examine the implications of these changes with respect to their efficiency, distribution, and sustainability. The contract model presented here differs from previous contract models as...
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managing the business activities in agriculture, since this is required by the more democratic foundations of the market … economic capital, to networks with their primary accent on social capital. The social capital-based organisation in agriculture … sozialkapitalbasierten Organisationen in der Landwirtschaft werden hauptsächlich durch Genossenschaften und Bauernverbände repräsentiert und …
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-member. Agriculture requires special attention, because it still represents a large share of the total economy in these countries. A …-Mitgliedschaft bekundet. Um den Integrationsprozeß zu erleichtern, müssen diese Länder ihre Wirtschaft anpassen. Die Landwirtschaft verdient …
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This study models producer protection legislation that would grant growers the right to claim damages (PPLD) if their contracts are prematurely terminated. In the absence of contracting frictions that prevent contractors from redesigning contracts to accommodate exogenous policy changes, PPLD...
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Water and agriculture are intrinsically linked. Water is essential for crop production and agriculture is the largest …-W distinguishes between rainfed and irrigated agriculture and introduces water as an explicit factor of production for irrigated … agriculture. Moreover, the new production structure accounts for substitution possibilities between irrigation and other primary …
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This paper analyses the detfirminants of household firms?participation in land rental markets in transition countries and what affects their access to land through rental markets. We derive several theoretical hypotheses on the impact of households?management ability, land endowment, land...
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Why do some countries establish their own national eco-labeling programs and some do not? In this paper, we provide both theoretical arguments and empirical evidence suggesting that the answer to this question can shed new light on three questions that have taken center-stage in the trade and...
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This paper asks whether population growth is conducive to the sustainability of cooperation. A simple model is developed in which farmers who live around a circular lake engage in trade with their adjacent neighbors. The payoffs from this activity are governed by a prisoner's dilemma rule of...
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Consider a population of farmers who live around a lake. Each farmer engages in trade with his m adjacent neighbors, where m is termed the span of interaction. Trade is governed by a prisoner's dilemma rule of engagement. A farmer's payoff is the sum of the payoffs from the m prisoner's dilemma...
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Pesticide use in agriculture poses several risks to both human health and non-target agro-ecosystems. Due to lack of …
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