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Collateral, Guaranties and Rural Credit in Developing Countries: Evidence from Asia

Feder, Gershon; Onchan, Tongroj; Raparla, Tejaswi - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 02 (1988) 3

The paper reviews the theory of the impact of loan collateral, and in particular land collateral, in institutional and non-institutional rural credit markets. Evidence from three Asian developing countries is presented, showing extensive use of land collateral among institutional lenders in...

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Fertilizer profitability in East Africa: A Spatially Explicit Policy Analysis

Guo, Zhe; Koo, Jawoo; Wood, Stanley - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

Even though it is clear that Substantial growth in inorganic fertilizer use is a prerequisite for sustained agricultural growth in Africa, fertilizer use is still one of the factors explaining lagging agricultural productivity growth in SSA. High transport costs and less policy support pose a...

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Food Standards, Certification, and Poverty among Coffee Farmers in Uganda

Chiputwa, Brian; Qaim, Matin; Spielman, David J. - Institut für Agrarökonomie, Georg-August-Universität … - 2013

Private standards are gaining in importance in global markets for high-value foods. We analyze and compare impacts of three sustainability oriented standards – Fairtrade, Organic, and UTZ – on the livelihoods of smallholder coffee farmers in Uganda. Using survey data and propensity score...

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Agri-investments and public spending in selected vulnerable countries – will they contribute to reduce food insecurity?

Wieck, Christine; Rudloff, Bettina; Heucher, Angela - Institut für Lebensmittel und Ressourcenökonomik, … - 2014

Using a panel data set for about 70 countries, this paper jointly analyzes agri-investment trends and food security developments in vulnerable countries. This work empirically connects two mainly independent debates about impacts of agri-investments on food security and on the proposed...

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Expectations towards Geographical Indications-Empirical Evidence from India

Neetha, Rose C.D.; Kotrakerebasegowda, Umesh - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

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Multinationals versus cooperatives: The income and efficiency effects of supply chain governance in India

Vandeplas, Anneleen; Minten, Bart; Swinnen, Johan F.M. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

The impact of multinational firms on the domestic agricultural sector in developing countries is controversial, in particular in India. Relying on a unique set of household-level data from the state of Punjab, we study the biggest dairy company in the world (Nestlé) in India and compare its...

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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; … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 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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A RANKING OF SERBIAN DISTRICTS BASED ON THE EFFICIENCY OF SMEs IN AGRIBUSINESS

Maletic, Radojka; Popovic, Blazenka - Agroekonomski Odsek, Poljoprivredni Fakultet - 2013

starting point for planning the development of the economy as a whole, and of the agribusiness in particular. It is important … (SMEs) in agribusiness. Agribusiness is particularly interesting field for the development of SMEs as it is a complex area … mathematical and statistical methods, evaluation of the operational efficiency of SMEs in agribusiness in districts of Serbia was …

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Measuring the Effectiveness of Agricultural Marketing in Contributing to Economic Development: Some African Examples

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Measuring Market Integration in the Presence of Threshold Effect: The Case of Bangladesh Rice Markets

Alam, Mohammad Jahangir; McKenzie, Andrew M.; Buysse, Jeroen - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012

Spatial price integration among five major Bangladesh rice markets is examined in the presence of threshold effects to account for the impact of transaction costs in the price adjustment process. Hansen and Seo (2002) threshold cointegration tests and threshold vector error correction models...

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