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Agricultural Trade Flows among Developing Countries: Do Regional Preferential Trade Agreements make a Difference?

Tembo, Gelson; Jayne, Thomas S. - 2009

implementation and individual countries’ production and marketing costs. …

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Policy and Institutional effects on market participation by smallholder rice farmers: case studies in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger

Toure, Ali; Bamba, Ibrahim; Diagne, Aliou; Harouna, Kore; … - 2008

Rice sector contributes significantly to secure households with regard to their food needs but also to the creation of employments and income generation. The sector development and its evolution over the years have been marked by various policies and approaches. These development stages of the...

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Has Imported Rice Crowded-out Domestic Rice Production in Ghana? What has Been the Role of Policy?

Asuming-Brempong, Samuel; Osei-Asare, Yaw Bonsu - 2008

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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Do Consumers Really Care about Biotech Food Label? What Do We Know? What Else Should We Know?

Chen, Xi; Zhong, Funing; Zhou, Bin - 2008

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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State Funded Marketing and Promotional Activities to Support a State's Winery Business; Are There Economic Returns?: A Case study using Texas Senate Bill 1370's support of the Texa...

Hanagriff, Roger D.; Lau, Michael H.; Rogers, Sarah L. - 2009

Texas wineries responded to a survey regarding their participation in wine marketing activities, annual changes in … allocate annually $725,000 to marketing and promotion of Texas wine. Combining the $725,000 and the normal funding of $250 … the Texas wine industry and attribute 49 percent of the increase to state marketing efforts. A portion of TDA marketing …

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The resilient character of PDO/PGI products in dynamic food markets

Arfini, Filippo; Capelli, Maria Giacinta - 2009

.The ultimate goal is to determine the strategic levers taken at the marketing stage and to identify which factors clarifytheir …

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Production Contracts and the Spot Market Price of Hogs

Key, Nigel D. - 2010

The increasing use of production contracts in the hog sector has reduced the number of spot market transactions, raised concerns about price manipulation and helped to spur legislation requiring price reporting by packers. Using data from the 2002 and 2007 Censuses of Agriculture, this study...

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Production Contracts and Farm Business Growth and Survival

Key, Nigel D. - 2010

In recent decades there has been a substantial increase in the scale of production and the use of production contracts in the hog sector. This paper explores empirically whether these two phenomena are related by examining whether the use of production contracts has allowed finish hog operations...

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Confirmatory Bias under Food-Borne Risk: A Lab Experiment

Cao, Ying; Just, David R.; Wansink, Brian - 2010

An experiment was conducted to investigate the interaction between consumers’ past eating behaviors, risk perceptions and future information processing procedure. In the study, participants were required to choose whether or not to eat chicken that was potentially be tainted with Avian...

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Testing Asymmetric Price Transmission in the Vertical Supply Chain in De-regulated RiceMarkets in Bangladesh

Alam, Mohammad Jahangir; Begum, Ismat Ara; Buysse, Jeroen; … - 2010

marketing chain to correct the market inefficiency, if needed. The vertical price leadership at the wholesale level to theretail … in the marketing literature is inferred but not empirically verified. Therefore, this paper is an attempt to fill up this …

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