Replaced with revised version of paper 02/10/10.

The purpose of this study is to estimate the impact of general inflation on prices paid and received by farmers. Specific objectives are: (1) to test the hypothesis that the farm commodity domestic demand function at the farm level is homogeneous of degree zero in price and income; and (2),...

This publication relates activities by guests and participants of the NC-221 Committee during the annual meeting held October 7-8, 2002. The meeting was graciously hosted by CoBank in Greenwood Village, Colorado, a Denver suburb. The selected papers are included along with two papers where only...

The economy of Zimbabwe has been in shambles since 1991. Output has declined in most of the production sectors, leading to many job losses. Current debates on the problems facing the economy have focused on poor government's incentives and excessive interventions as major constraints of economic...

Using a fixed-effects panel data approach, FDI flows of 22 OECD countries are explained by gravity equations over the period 1991-2001. It is distinguished between all available observations, Intra-EU25 observations only, and observations not belonging to the EU25 area in order to control for...

Machinery-sharing provides an alternative for smaller producers to obtain the efficiencies of large farming operations and remain competitive in an increasingly concentrated agricultural industry. This research uses a multiple case study design to examine the motivations for sharing equipment...

This study determined the factors (related to fixed and variable transaction costs) influencing the decision to participate in sweet potato markets by a random sample of 320 small holder farmers in south eastern Nigeria. Data were collected with structured and validated questionnaire, and...

We compare two regime-dependent econometric models for price transmission analysis, namely the threshold vector error correction model and Markov-switching vector error correction model. We first provide a detailed characterization of each of the models which is followed by a comprehensive...

The growth of the world’s organic food market in the last ten years has been raising the demand for studies related to this theme.Supermarkets have been proving themselves relevant actors in the distribution of these products in Brazil and in the external market.This paper aims to describe the...

The Brazilian poultry chain has been intensely restructured during the last few years to remain competitive in the internal and externalmarkets. Analysis of all the chain levels indicates that the processing segment is characterized by an intense innovation process, inboth its product and its...