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Modeling Agricultural Innovation in a Rapidly Developing Country: The Case of Chinese Pesticide Industry
Shi, Guanming; Pray, Carl - 2011
Technology and innovation play an increasingly important role in the economic development of both developed and developing countries. We investigate how policy and market factors influence firms’ (or other potential innovators’) decisions on innovation or imitation by developing a conceptual...
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Policy Responses to 2008 High Food Prices: Domestic Incentives and Global Implications
Woolverton, Andrea E.; Kiawu, James - 2009
Global food commodity price inflation beginning in 2006 and continuing through mid-2008 became a priority concern for global consumers, producers and policy-makers alike. In response, many governments across the world implemented policies targeting high food commodity prices in their domestic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446712
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Consulting the stakeholders on pro-poor market segmentation of maize seed in Africa
de Groote, Hugo; Andam, Kwaw S.; Hall, Mike; Munyua, … - 2009
Paper accepted for presentation at the 27th Conference of the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE), Beijing China, August 16-22, 2009, (Ref 690)
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The Role of Market Power in Agricultural Contracts
Cordero Salas, Paula - 2009
I study the economic consequences of shifting bargaining power in relational contracts through interventions such as the formation of a Bargaining Group (BG) for the side of sellers in a market where buyers traditionally hold significant market power. Existing theories of relational contracts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444723
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Do Consumers Really Care about Biotech Food Label? What Do We Know? What Else Should We Know?
Chen, Xi; Zhong, Funing; Zhou, Bin - 2008
This paper is Selected for presentation at the Southern Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, January 31-February 3, 2009. The research is partially funded by ERS/USDA China Project and Social Science Fund of Jiangsu Province in China. The authors are grateful for...
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Has Imported Rice Crowded-out Domestic Rice Production in Ghana? What has Been the Role of Policy?
Asuming-Brempong, Samuel; Osei-Asare, Yaw Bonsu - 2008
rice accounted for some 37% per annum of rice consumption in Ghana over the four years between 2000 and 2003. Compared to … imported rice and five key rice producing centres in Ghana. In addition, the various policies that affected rice during the …, suggesting that markets for imported rice in Ghana are segmented, and domestic policies have generally not favoured local rice …
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MARKETING OPPORTUNITIES FOR JAMAICA’S GRAPEFRUIT INDUSTRY
Evans, Edward A.; Nalampang, Sikavas; Spreen, Thomas H. - 2007
Several Caribbean sugar producing countries are actively looking for viable alternatives to recover some of the expected lost revenues due to the WTO (World Trade Organization) ruling that sugar subsidies in the European Union (EU) are illegal. One alternative worth considering is exporting...
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The adoption of market-based instruments for resource management: Three case studies
Sinner, Jim; Fenemor, Andrew; Palmer, James - 2005
Market-based instruments (MBIs) for resource management create financial incentives for people and businesses to use resources more efficiently, within a regulatory context designed to ensure that ecological, social and cultural objectives are also met. Three case studies were done to identify...
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Optimal Coverage Level Choice with Individual and Area Plans of Insurance
Bulut, Harun; Collins, Keith J.; Zacharias, Thomas P. - 2011
We theoretically examine a farmer’s coverage demand with area and individual insurance plans as either separate or integrated options. The individual and area losses are assumed to be imperfectly and positively correlated. With actuarially fair rates, the farmer will fully insure with the...
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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....
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