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Farm Operator Benefits from Direct Marketing Strategies: How Does Local Food Impact Farm Financial Performance?
Park, Timothy A.; Mishra, Ashok K.; Wozniak, Shawn J. - 2011
In the era of a global economy, farmers face increasing pressure in developing a portfolio of various marketing channels. However, the literature on direct marketing strategies has mainly focused on consumers. Using farm-level data this study investigates factors associated with the choice of...
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Non-Credit Services of Group-Based Financial Institutions: Implications for Smallholder Women’s Honey Income in Arid and Semi Arid Lands of Kenya
Otieno, Peter Shimon; Nyikal, Rose Adhiambo; Mugivane, … - 2008
This paper analyses the effect of non-credit services of joint liability credit institutions on smallholder women … beekeepers’ honey income. The non-credit services offered to the beekeepers are mainly enterprise development services (training … beekeepers participating in group-based credit programmes; the survey was conducted in September 2005 in Makueni district of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446370
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ANALIZING WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE IMPACTS USING A MULTINOMIAL LOGIT LAND USE MODEL
Fezzi, Carlo; Bateman, Ian J.; Day, Brett H.; Posen, … - 2008
We develop a two-stage, multinomial logit model of UK land use to investigate the impact of policychanges upon agriculture. The model utilizes a large panel database covering the entirety of Englandand Wales for 14 years between 1969 and 2004 integrated with the economic and physicalenvironment...
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The Economic Determinants of the On-farm Management of Rice Cultivars in the Rhone River Delta (France)
Jaeck, Melanie; Lifran, Robert - 2011
The aims of our paper are to identify economic determinants of theon-farm cultivars diversity and to empirically characterize the farmers'diversi…cation choices. We focus on the private decision making processinvolving the choice of rice cultivars and the corresponding allocation offarmland....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446190
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Discrete and Continuous Representations of Unobserved Heterogeneity in Choice Modeling
Wedel, Michel; Kamakura, Wagner A.; Arora, Neeraj; … - 1999
We attempt to provide insights into how heterogeneity has been and can be addressed in choice modeling. In doing so, we deal with three topics: Models of heterogeneity, Methods of estimation and Substantive issues. In describing models we focus on discrete versus continuous representations of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477259
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Equilibria in a Hotelling Model: First-Mover Advantage?
Rajan, Uday - 2008
We study a generalized Hotelling duopoly in which a consumer's net utility from a product depends on the location of product and consumer in product attribute space, a random utility term that captures idiosyncratic preferences, and the price of the product. Our model allows us to vary the...
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Determinants of coordination and supply chain performance : The case of fresh milk supply chains in Kenya
Eliud Abucheli Birachi - 2006
The study uses Transaction Costs Economics Theory and Supply Chain Management frameworks to investigate determinants of coordination and supply chain performance in the Kenyan milk supply chains. The transactions investigated are between milk producers and buyer customers, between milk retailers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429032
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Estimation of Commodity Specific Production Costs Using German Farm Accountancy Data
Bahta, Sirak; Berner, Anja; Offermann, Frank - 2011
A central problem in estimating per unit costs of production originates from the fact that most farms producemultiple outputs and standard farm-accounting data are only available at the whole-farm level. The seeminglyunrelated regression (SUR) approach is used to estimate per unit production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442619
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Formal credit institutions in agriculture of Kazakhstan (micro-econometric analysis)
Gaisina, Sholpan - 2010
cooperatives. Econometric analysis is used to analyze the determinants of credit access. Results suggest that access to subsidized … supplier of financial and investment resources could be a banking system and such non-banking credit institutions as credit … credit has a significant role in determining access to bank credits and investment activity of agricultural enterprises …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442653
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ZUM DESINVESTITIONSVERHALTEN LANDWIRTSCHAFTLICHER UNTERNEHMER: ERGEBNISSE EINER EXPERIMENTELLEN UNTERSUCHUNG
Maart, Syster Christin; Musshoff, Oliver; Odening, Martin; … - 2010
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