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This paper evaluates the production and trade trends for maize and maize products in southern Africa, individual countries’ revealed comparative advantages in producing these products, and the expected implications of freer trade in this sector. The analysis employs mainly annual bilateral...
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Commercial rice imports have accounted for approximately 61%, food aid in rice accounted for about 2%, and domestic rice accounted for some 37% per annum of rice consumption in Ghana over the four years between 2000 and 2003. Compared to the 1990s, these figures show a gradual decline in the...
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There has been concern about the effectiveness of India's agricultural policy reforms adopted in recent years as part of the overall policy liberalisation process. These concerns have been strengthened by studies of spatial market integration of major agricultural commodity markets, such as the...
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This annotated bibliography on agricultural marketing and economic development has been compiled with two objectives in … mind. First, to contribute to the understanding of the role that agricultural marketing can play in the process of … developing countries. As the reader will see many authors agree that marketing is "the most backward of all areas of economic …
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this paper is to draw attention to some marketing considerations which could be useful in guiding the research needed to …
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aconsiderable potential for this product if its productivity is improved and theprocessing industry along with the marketing …
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.Having studied a wide variety of diffusion models applied in marketing, the Bass (1969) model seems to be internationally adopted …
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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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This paper analyses the impact of quality based labelling on product prices,factor allocation and the resulting effects on producers within the context of aninternational trading system. A general equilibrium model, calibrated to 1998 data,describes United States and European Union labelling...
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of action plans, community marketing programmes, the creation of a quality commodity stock, logistics development and the …
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