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member countries scrutinize the work undertaken. A major project on decoupling of agricultural policy measures is used to …
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Recent reform of the Common Agricultural Policy has led to the decoupling of direct payments to farmers from production … maximization objectives become profit maximizing objectives. In this paper we explore the impact of decoupling on the productivity … effect of decoupling on productivity by controlling for other policy changes that have occurred alongside decoupling. We also …
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Very little is known about changes in the demand characteristics of food in New Zealand. As far as we can determine, there has never been a complete disaggregated food demand model estimated for New Zealand. The object of this paper is to update these estimates using more recent data to see...
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and households disaggregated by rural, urban, and income class to study the potential impacts of reforms that achieve … prices, and increases private consumption, particularly by low-income households. These gains could help to offset some of … the medium-term adjustment costs for some commodity markets and households associated with reducing agricultural subsidies …
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A survey was conducted in 2012 to assess the impact of dairy technologies on the livelihood of dairying households in …. Dairying has significant contribution as a sustainable source of income to the dairy producing households. It contributed about … for about 80% and 62% of the dairy producing households in Ada’a and Lume districts, respectively. On the other hand, 92 …
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The increasing use of agricultural contracts and processor concentration raises concerns that processors may offer lower contract prices in absence of local competition. This study examines the price competitiveness of marketing and production contracts depending on the availability of...
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This paper aims to determine the solidity of the notion of the "coffee paradox" using annual data from 1977 to 2007. In the confines of an export supply model, we analyze the effects of export coffee price on export volume. Price and profit equation are used to determine the effects of market...
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Danish farmers have been far less interested in agri-environmental subsidy schemes than anticipated. We use choiceexperiments to estimate 486 Danish farmers’ preferences for a number of policy relevant scheme-characteristics.Subsidy schemes for pesticide free buffer zones along hedgerows are...
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Agri-environmental programs in Japan have generally been promoted through the provision of fixedpayments for certain environment-friendly farming and management practices. However, the auctioning of agrienvironmentalcontracts is a noteworthy alternative for the furtherance of such programs....
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Scientific evidence clearly indicates that consumption of raw milk carries substantialdisease-inducing health risks. While federal U.S. policy mandates that milk moving in interstatecommerce be pasteurized; within 41 of 50 states, raw milk can be obtained for consumption.Warning labels...
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