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risk premium required for sellers to undertake a dual marketing system with GM/Non-GM segregations over the current Non …-GM system. Elements of costs (testing costs, rejection costs, and risk premium) were estimated for a base model representing a … risk of adventitious commingling at all stages of the marketing chain, grower truth-telling, variety declaration, and …
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Since the introduction of genetically modified (GM) crops, the commodity grain system has been under pressure to segregate GM and non-GM crops. Starting at the level of the grain handler, members of the grain supply chain have successfully used quality assurance and identity preservation...
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Research Institute (IFPRI), highlighted the need for a comprehensive, evidenced-based review of agricultural biotechnology in … order to better understand its current status, issues, constraints, and opportunities for Africa. Agricultural biotechnology …
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have been developed to hedge price risk on capitalmarkets; however, in more recent times new financial instruments, weather … derivatives, have beendeveloping that hedge the volumetric risk associated with unfavourable weather. Weatherderivatives have the … ability to effectively hedge weather related volume risk for the agricultural,mining, energy and manufacturing industries …
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This study examines the economic potential of producing a wheat (Triticum aesitivum) and grain sorghum (Sorghum bicolor … management strategies under various risk preferences and utility-weighted certainty equivalent risk premiums. Yields, input rates …, risk analysis indicates CRP would be the preferred strategy for some risk-averse managers. …
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This study examines the economic potential of producing a wheat (Triticum aesitivum) and grain sorghum (Sorghum bicolor … management strategies under various risk preferences and utility-weighted certainty equivalent risk premiums. Yields, input rates …, risk analysis indicates CRP would be the preferred strategy for some risk-averse managers. …
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tool to remove the economic consequences of climate related variability in wheat yield. In the past, financial instruments … have been developed to hedge price risk on capital markets; however, in more recent times new financial instruments …, weather derivatives, have been developing that hedge the volumetric risk associated with unfavourable weather. Weather …
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of risk may be smaller due to trust in government regulation, positive perceptions of scientific discovery, and positive …
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maximization problem of crop rotation among HR rice, regular rice, and soybeans. The results demonstrate that risk attitudes and …
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At the WTO, the precautionary principle/approach is considered as a protectionary mechanism, i.e. and alleged justification for potentially WTO-illegal trade restrictions. This article presents a survey of some pronouncements of the WTO's Dispute Settlement Body including two case studies at...
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