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"on 25-26 January 2010 in Maputo, Mozambiqueunder the Comesa-MSU-IFPRI African Agricultural Markets Project (AAMP) …The main objective of this paper is to examine whether the staple food markets in Africa are efficient. It does so by …
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This study develops cumulative carbon “supply curves” for global forests utilizing an dynamic timber supply model for sequestration of forest carbon. Because the period of concern is the next century, and particular time points within that century, the curves are not traditional Marshallian...
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Smallholder farmers in southern Africa face acute food insecurity because the productive capacity of their soils has declined. These resource-poor farmers increasingly cannot afford mineral fertilizers Farmers mentioned the lack of fertilizers for their depleted soils as the most important...
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These three invited papers examine the role that exchange rates may have in influencingcommodity prices, input prices and farm income. The papers arguably represent one of themost important recent attempts to quantify and explain these new linkages. As U.S. and worldagriculture moves from a...
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. During the learning process, markets may lack a true equilibrium price, and therefore sellers in such a model cannot be price … profit level as a measure of Darwinian fitness. The simulated evolution was repeated over a random sample of 10 markets …
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of electricity markets. To date, despite the existence of many loss allocation methods, no one method is commonly used in … established electricity markets. Furthermore, some markets are still considering using different methods that will provide more … methods used in existing markets in Eastern Australia and Great Britain, as well as with the pro rata and proportional sharing …
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This paper focuses on the higher order factors affecting successful adoption of technologies. Drawing on the "actor-oriented perspective" in rural sociology, it is argued that successful examples of adoption at this higher level result from a complex conjunction of people and events, with...
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This paper studies how an institution such as markets affects the evolution of mankind. My key point is that the forces …
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between at least three governance modes, hierarchies, markets, and networks, each having its own advantages. This paper … combine with networks but also with preferences for markets and hierarchies. A cluster analysis identifies two dominant types … combined trust with strong preferences for markets and weak political networks than in opposite regions. …
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the players and policies in the many distinct domestic and international markets that exist for the inputs and outputs of …
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