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Agriculture Entrepreneurs as Entrepreneurial Partners in Land-Use Management: A Policy-Based Characterization.
Steele, S.R. - Department of Economics, National University of Ireland - 1999
An organizational economic analysis of the agricultural enterprise illustrates that agricultural entrepreneurs are not the independent capitalist entrepreneurs they are often assumed to be. This paper offers an alternative characterization of agricultural entrepreneurs as entrepreneurial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005669504
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Land Rental Market Activity in Agrarian Reform Areas : Evidence from the Philippines
Ballesteros, Marife M.; Bresciani, F. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
Using data from 3,120 farm household surveyed in 2000 and 2006 the paper tests for factors that affect the degree and extent of households participation in the rural land rental market. The survey period coincided with the full implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP)...
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Agrarian Reform in Uzbekistan: Why Has the Chinese Model Failed to Deliver?
Pomfret, Richard - School of Economics, University of Adelaide - 1998
The paper analyses the nature and effects of agrarian reform in Uzbekistan. Since becoming independent in late 1991, Uzbekistan has followed a gradual reform path, often invoking the Chinese model. Agrarian reform has resembled China's post-1978 household responsibility system, but has failed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008552957
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Why Russian Peasants Remain in Collective Farms : A Household Perspective on Agricultural Restructuring
Amelina, Maria - 2001
This paper seeks to understand what motivates collective farm employees-share-holders to remain in collective structures rather than exercise their legally sanctioned right to leave with land and property shares. On the basis of a 1999 survey of 181 collective farm households and analysis of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014137727
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Abschätzung des Schadpotentials von Hochwasser- und Extremwetterereignissen für landwirtschaftliche Kulturen
Heidecke, Claudia; Offermann, Frank; Hauschild, Marlen - 2017
This working paper analyses the economic impacts of floods in agriculture with the help of flood risk areas as well as … weather events which was initiated and supported by the German Federal Ministry of Nutrition and Agriculture (Gömann et al …
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Where is commercial farming expanding in Mozambique? : evidence from agricultural surveys
Glover, Steven M.; Salvucci, Vincenzo; Jones, Sam - 2016
This paper studies the dynamics of the agricultural sector in Mozambique, focusing on the role of commercial farms. Using agricultural survey data from 2002 to 2012, we analyse the spatial distribution of large farms and identify factors influencing their location decisions. We find that the...
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Analysis of agricultural labor efficiency from the perspective of labor productivity
Manolache, Alesandra Marina; Mărcuţa, Alina; Petre, … - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 118-122). 2021
The approach regarding the efficiency of the labor force in agriculture, but also from the perspective of labor …, implicitly also of the agricultural sector. Agriculture is considered one of the most powerful forces shaping human behavior and … therefore economic activity. This paper investigates the effects of agriculture on labor productivity and the agricultural labor …
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The Evolution of Relational Property Rights : A Case of Chinese Rural Land Reform
Qiao, Shitong - 2015
The most notable, or at least the most noted, form of property evolution has been the transfer of exclusive rights from collectives to individuals and vice versa, such as the farm collectivization in Soviet Union and the establishment of the People's Communes in Mao's China and their reversals....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022725
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Drivers of Agricultural Diversification in India, Haryana and the Greenbelt Farms of India
Jha, Brajesh; Tripathi, Amarnath; Mohanty, Biswajit - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
that increased road density, urbanization encourages commercialization of agriculture and with commercialization, farms in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363673
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The Post-war International Food Order: The Case of Agriculture in Colombia
Gaviria, Carlos - In: Lecturas de Economía (2011) 74, pp. 119-150
Since the post-war period, Colombian agriculture has been reshaped mainly by international measures. The post …
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