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VALUING RISK TRADEOFFS AND VOLUNTARY INSECTICIDE REDUCTION
LOHR, Luanne; PARK, Timothy; HIGLEY, Leon - Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, … - 1996
Farmer's willingness to voluntarily reduce insecticide use is not considered when regulatory approaches toenvironmental protection are proposed. Regulations that require behavior that would voluntarily be undertaken are excessive and economically inefficient. Using survey data from a contingent...
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Las empresas del sector agropecuario: racionalidad económica y gestión
Rendón, Sol Bibiana Mora - In: REVISTA AD-MINISTER (2012)
El presente artículo es el resultado de una investigación desarrollada en algunas asociaciones de pequeños y medianos productores agropecuarios en la región del Suroeste antioqueño, y propone un análisis sobre la gestión en estas organizaciones empresariales del sector agropecuario,...
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Agriculture in Portugal: linkages with industry and services
Gaspar, João; Pina, Gilson; Simões, Marta C. N. - Grupo de Estudos Monetários e Financeiros (GEMF), … - 2014
We investigate the links between agriculture and non-agricultural sectors in Portugal by assessing the existence of … productivity show that productivity gains in services and industry feedback into productivity growth in agriculture, although the … synergies between agricultural and non-agricultural sectors, and provide agriculture with the necessary technological and …
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State productivity growth in agriculture: catching-up and the business cycle
Ball, V.; San-Juan-Mesonada, Carlos; Ulloa, Camilo - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 42 (2014) 3, pp. 327-338
productivity growth in agriculture. As with the rate of catch-up, the embodiment effect was much stronger during low economic …
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Russie : la nouvelle question agraire
Pouliquen - Département Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et … - 2001
En Russie, la transition post-communiste a dramatiquement réduit la production agricole, du fait de la forte réduction de son soutien antérieurement exorbitant. Mais l'inefficacité des filières d'aval et d'amont et les privatisations internes des kolkhozes et sovkhozes l'ont en outre...
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Evaluating nutrition and health impacts of agricultural innovations
Qaim, Matin - Institut für Agrarökonomie, Georg-August-Universität … - 2014
details of these agriculture-nutrition-health linkages are not yet well understood. While there is a broad literature on the …
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Transaction Costs of Exchange in Agriculture: A Survey
Cuevas, Agham C. - In: Asian Journal of Agriculture and Development 11 (2014) 1, pp. 21-38
transaction costs to agriculture. It focuses on the role of transaction costs in exchange in agriculture, particularly in the …
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Computer system for farms (SITEFA) - an opportunity for performant agricultural management
Cofas, Elena - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Any modern agricultural unit, regardless of profile, size, ownership and socio-economic space in which they operate, requires a management style based on flexibility, dynamism and foresight, which is inconceivable without a complex, operative and quality information, to underpin decision making....
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Trade Policy and Food Security : Improving Access to Food in Developing Countries in the Wake of High World Prices
Gillson, Ian; Fouad, Amir - Economics Research, World Bank Group
Based on forecasts of global population growth, food security will remain an important economic development issue over the next several decades. In addition, real food prices have risen in recent years after decades of decline, bringing the issue of food security even further into the public...
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EFEITOS DAS MUDANÇAS CLIMÃTICAS NO SETOR AGRÃCOLA DO ESTADO DE MINAS GERAIS
Cunha, Denis Antonio da; Reis, Darline Ingrid dos - In: Revista de Economia e Agronegocio / Brazilian Review of … 10 (2012) 3
that the land values may have a small increase. However, this result should not give the false impression that agriculture …
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