Similar Search Results

Restuccia, Diego; Santaeulalia-Llopis, Raul - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2015

Using detailed household-farm level data from Malawi, we measure real farm total factor productivity (TFP) controlling for a wide array of factor inputs, land quality, and transitory shocks. The distribution of farm TFP has substantial dispersion but factor inputs are roughly evenly spread among...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011152376

VALUING RISK TRADEOFFS AND VOLUNTARY INSECTICIDE REDUCTION

LOHR, Luanne; PARK, Timothy; HIGLEY, Leon - Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, … - 1996

Farmer's willingness to voluntarily reduce insecticide use is not considered when regulatory approaches toenvironmental protection are proposed. Regulations that require behavior that would voluntarily be undertaken are excessive and economically inefficient. Using survey data from a contingent...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011152600

Las empresas del sector agropecuario: racionalidad económica y gestión

Rendón, Sol Bibiana Mora - In: REVISTA AD-MINISTER (2012)

>Companies of the Agricultural Sector: Economic Rationality and Management</h2> This article is the result of a research …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011152812

Agriculture in Portugal: linkages with industry and services

Gaspar, João; Pina, Gilson; Simões, Marta C. N. - Grupo de Estudos Monetários e Financeiros (GEMF), … - 2014

We investigate the links between agriculture and non-agricultural sectors in Portugal by assessing the existence of … productivity show that productivity gains in services and industry feedback into productivity growth in agriculture, although the … synergies between agricultural and non-agricultural sectors, and provide agriculture with the necessary technological and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011153369

State productivity growth in agriculture: catching-up and the business cycle

Ball, V.; San-Juan-Mesonada, Carlos; Ulloa, Camilo - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 42 (2014) 3, pp. 327-338

productivity growth in agriculture. As with the rate of catch-up, the embodiment effect was much stronger during low economic …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011154992

Russie : la nouvelle question agraire

Pouliquen - Département Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et … - 2001

En Russie, la transition post-communiste a dramatiquement réduit la production agricole, du fait de la forte réduction de son soutien antérieurement exorbitant. Mais l'inefficacité des filières d'aval et d'amont et les privatisations internes des kolkhozes et sovkhozes l'ont en outre...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011155499

Evaluating nutrition and health impacts of agricultural innovations

Qaim, Matin - Institut für Agrarökonomie, Georg-August-Universität … - 2014

details of these agriculture-nutrition-health linkages are not yet well understood. While there is a broad literature on the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011155542

Transaction Costs of Exchange in Agriculture: A Survey

Cuevas, Agham C. - In: Asian Journal of Agriculture and Development 11 (2014) 1, pp. 21-38

transaction costs to agriculture. It focuses on the role of transaction costs in exchange in agriculture, particularly in the … distance and isolation in many of the analyses points to the influence of the new economic geography research stream …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011156411

Computer system for farms (SITEFA) - an opportunity for performant agricultural management

Cofas, Elena - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Any modern agricultural unit, regardless of profile, size, ownership and socio-economic space in which they operate, requires a management style based on flexibility, dynamism and foresight, which is inconceivable without a complex, operative and quality information, to underpin decision making....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011157019

Trade Policy and Food Security : Improving Access to Food in Developing Countries in the Wake of High World Prices

Gillson, Ian; Fouad, Amir - Economics Research, World Bank Group

Based on forecasts of global population growth, food security will remain an important economic development issue over the next several decades. In addition, real food prices have risen in recent years after decades of decline, bringing the issue of food security even further into the public...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011168550