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Managing Quantity, Quality and Timing in Cane Sugar Production: Ex Post Marketing Permits or Ex Ante Production Contracts?
Patlolla, Sandhyarani - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010
Sugarcane produced in India is utilized to manufacture three sweetening agents: sugar, gur, and khandsari. Sugar …
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SUGAR CANE EXPANSION: DOES IT CONTRIBUTE TO AMAZON DEFORESTATION?
Castro, Eduardo Rodrigues de; Teixeira, Erly Cardoso; … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
The aim of this study is to investigate the direct and indirect impacts of sugarcane expansion on deforestation in the … prices of sugarcane, soybean, corn, beans, cotton and the total annual acreage as the independent variables. The impact of … estimates reveal that it is not possible to establish a direct connection between sugarcane area expansion and Amazon …
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ALTERNATIVES TO SUGAR CANE IN ST. KITTS: COMPETITIVENESS STUDIES OF 4 CROPS IN ST. KITTS/NEVIS
Edwards, Allistair; Jacque, Andrew Eliel - Caribbean Agro-Economic Society - CAES - 2007
externally funded Stevia project and announcing plans for methanol production and co-generation of electricity from sugarcane …
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Too Connected to Fail: The Effect of Alliance Network Structure on Farm Survival
Kirwan, Barrett E.; Martens, Andrea - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011
Exogenous, unobserved factors often confound the effects of alliance networks. More capable farmers might be less likely to exit and more likely to have a large number of alliances. In this case the negative correlation between alliance network size and exit likelihood is due to the unobserved...
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Structural Change in the Meat and Poultry Industry and the Pathogen Reduction Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point Rule
Ollinger, Michael - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2008
This paper uses plant-level micro-data covering the 1987-2002 and a translog cost function to estimate long-run costs in the meat and poultry industry in order to evaluate the impact of the Pathogen Reduction Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point Rule on cattle, hog and chicken slaughter and...
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An Analysis of the Recent Evolution of Mali’s Maize Subsector
Diallo, Amadou Sekou - 2011
In most developing countries, historically, the main strategy for improving the food sector has focused on increasing farm-level production. But in recent years, with the emphasis on value chain analysis, there has been much more focus on subsector studies, demand-driven approaches, and...
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ON POLICY INDUCED TRANSFERS DURING ECONOMIC TRANSITION: THE CASE OF THE WHEAT-FLOUR-BREAD CHAIN IN BULGARIA
Swinnen, Johan F.M. - 1997
Recent analysis of policy-induced income changes along the agro-food chain in Bulgaria uses an extension of the PSE/CSE methodology. It shows that measures taken by the government with the intention of supporting consumers have led to a substantial negative impact on producers, without having a...
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ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT ON UK SUGAR PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY OF REFORMING THE EU SUGAR REGIME
Renwick, Alan W.; Revoredo-Giha, Cesar - 2005
The purpose of the paper is examining the potential implications for the UK sugar beet sector of the EU sugar regime reform. Although the reform has yet to be formalised, the initial proposals centre on price and quota cuts. Using panel data from the Farm Business Survey for England, the paper...
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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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