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In form of a qualitative single case study this thesis examines what people from industrialized countries such as Germany can learn about sustainability from Lynedoch EcoVillage, South Africa, and the associated 'Sustainability Institute', a non-profit trust based at and operating from Lynedoch...
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PROAGRO is the leading firm in the broiler business in Venezuela. It is integrated through hatchery, grow-out, processing and distribution activities. As a consequence of strict price regulation policies enforced by the government in the poultry products, PROAGRO experienced serious injury to...
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Forecasting has been very important in decision making at all levels and sectors of the economy. In agriculture, where the decision environment is characterized by risks and uncertainty largely due to uncertain yields and relatively low price elasticities of demand of most commodities, decision...
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This study uses one year (1989-90) of households survey data covering all livestock transactions and input expenditures to examine the equity impacts of the Senegalese livestock policy and the factors affecting purchases and sales of small ruminants in three study zones of the Senegalese Peanut...
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In 1998, the Sara Lee Corporation decided to restructure its value chain by diverging from manufacturing many of its products to outsourcing and concentrating its resources on developing and managing its brands. In light of this change, Bil Mar Foods, a subsidiary of Sara Lee located in Zeeland,...
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Livestock production in developing countries has begun getting much attention from governments, donor agents and researchers. In many countries cash crops constituted the major source of foreign exchange earnings and thus got much more attention than livestock production. However, the 1970's...
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The intent of this study is to develop a model which represents the supply and demand relationships for fluid milk in the United States in order to forecast farm prices and the level of milk production for 1975 and to make projections to 1985 of the domestic consumption of fluid milk. The...
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, suggestions on how to improve the pattern of the import trade and to enhance the international competitiveness of Chinese sugar …
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In this paper, I use a dynamic recursive computable general equilibrium to evaluate, for the economy of Senegal, the dynamic effects of an economic Partnership Agreement between West African countries and the European Union. In the simulation, the liberalization scheme is designed in a way...
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logistics means that the competitiveness of fruit industries in various regions and countries, as affected by the performance of … also be taken of the fact that much confusion exists regarding the exact meaning of the term competitiveness. Comparative … advantage and competitiveness are related, but are often mistakenly exchanged for one another. Comparative advantage explains …
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