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This article provides an overview of the sustainability and food security challenges posed by escalating meat demand globally with attention to developing countries and resource constraints. The paper then explores current strategies for addressing the complex issues of global food security...
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diversity of alternative (market, private, collective, public, hybrid) modes of risk management. This paper incorporates the … the (market, private, public and hybrid) modes of their management. Second, it defines the efficiency of risk management … other commodity regulated by the market supply and demand, and the farmers “willingness to pay” for an insurance contract …
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In "The Tragedy of the Commons," Garrett Hardin argues that those who can use a resource for free consume more of it than they would if they had to pay for it. Public resources eventually collapse because people overuse them. Hardin’s widely accepted argument seems correct as far as it goes,...
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run-off) to provide incentives for control. In short, the agencies and the regulated private sector have latched on to the …
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holdings in Bulgaria has been refined and applied. A multi-criteria assessment of the competitiveness of farms of different …
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All humans and the institutions they create err from time to time. Regulatory agencies are no exception. This essay hypothesizes that by failing to recognize mutual fund abnormal returns as an open-access common pool subject to a race to first possession, the U.S. Securities and Exchange...
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Berkshire Hathaway, among history's largest and most successful corporations, shuns middlemen; its chairman, the legendary investor Warren Buffett, excoriates financial intermediaries. The acquisitive conglomerate rarely borrows money, retains brokers, or hires consultants. Its governance is...
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Les filières du bois à Tiruchengodu, petite ville de l’Inde du Sud, sont étudiées. Ce cas permet de comprendre l’articulation entre production à plusieurs niveaux d’échelle, dans une société très complexe. L’analyse du système de production montre le rôle initial de la...
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Since the 1970s world trade in unprocessed wood or preprocessed wood reached a stable level between 150 and 200 million m3, while, since 1985, world consumption varies between 3.2 and 3.4 billion m3 annually1. Thus, woodwork networks seem to be caught between two worlds with virtually...
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