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Factors Influencing Acceptance and Use of ICT Innovations by Agribusinesses

Ibrahim, Adamkolo Mohammed; Hassan, Md Salleh; Gusau, … - In: Journal of Global Information Management (JGIM) 26 (2018) 4, pp. 113-134

This article describes how because of the rapid expansion of digital and online ‘bizscapes,' and ‘bizapps' resulting in small and medium-scale agribusinesses adopting and using online entrepreneurial technology innovations, information and communication technology has great potential to...

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Contract farming and smallholder incentives to produce high quality: experimental evidence from the Vietnamese dairy sector

Saenger, Christoph; Qaim, Matin; Torero, Maximo; … - 2012

In emerging markets for high-value food products in developing countries, processing companies search for efficient ways to source raw material of consistent quality. One widely embraced approach is contract farming. But relatively little is known about the appropriate design of contracts,...

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Impact of Third-Party Enforcement of Contracts in Agricultural Markets – A Field Experiment in Vietnam

Saenger, Christoph; Torero, Maximo; Qaim, Matin - 2013

We study the effect of alleviating information asymmetry regarding product quality that is widespread in developing-country agricultural markets. Opportunistic buyers may underreport quality levels back to farmers to reduce the price they have to pay. In response, farmers may curb investment,...

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Oil palm production and cooperatives in the Philippines

Nozawa, Katsumi - 2011

The promotion of oil palm production as an agribusiness development policy is a major issue in response to the … Agribusiness Venture Arrangement (AVA) mode through the field survey of the cooperatives in the provinces in Mindanao. In …

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Agribusinesses, smallholder tenure security, and plot-level investments: Evidence from rural Tanzania

Sipangule, Kacana - 2017

the share of land held by an agribusiness in a village affects smallholder plot-level tenure security and investments in … agribusiness significantly increases the probability that a plot has tenure security. Moreover, our results reveal that a decrease …

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O mercado de trabalho na fronteira do agronegócio: Quanto a dinâmica no Matopiba difere das regiões mais tradicionais?

Serigati, Felippe; Rodrigues, Raquel Magossi; Possamai, … - 2017

with the evolution of the Brazilian agribusiness labor market as a whole. The paper is part of a broader research project … the one hand, although agribusiness generated an increasingly smaller number of jobs within the sector itself, on the … agribusiness, which, through more capital-intensive and labor-saving technologies, has been able to increase its productivity and …

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Inserção internacional do agronegócio brasileiro

Maranhão, Rebecca Lima Albuquerque; Vieira Filho, … - 2017

The urban population growth in developing countries, the middle class expansion and the increase in per capita income have increased the demand for food. This work aims to identify, from the Constant Market Share (CMS) method, the sources of growth of agricultural exports among the main...

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Innovation and valorization in supply chain network

Cembalo, Luigi - In: Agricultural and Food Economics 3 (2015), pp. 1-4

the analysis of new organizations and governance frameworks in the agribusiness. Since this subject needs a deeper …

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Social responsibility in Ukrainian agriculture: the regional issue

Levkivska, Larysa; Levkovych, Inna - In: Eastern Journal of European Studies 8 (2017) 1, pp. 97-114

The social responsibility of agribusiness is currently one of the highly debated issues. Factors such as the … Responsibility (CSR) highly relevant to Ukrainian agribusiness. The paper provides insights on the understanding of CSR by the …

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Is Agribusiness Different? Firm-Level Evidence of Perceived Corruption in Post-Soviet Countries

Herzfeld, Thomas; Kulyk, Iryna; Wolz, Axel - In: Eastern European Economics 56 (2018) 6, pp. 504-521

looks at whether managers in the agribusiness sector perceive corruption differently than do managers in other sectors. The … range of econometric models, however, do not reveal differences between agribusiness and other sectors at large. Only in two … of ten specifications do respondents from agribusiness tend to perceive corruption as occurring less frequently than do …

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