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Justified hopes or utopian thinking? The suitability of coffee certification schemes as a business model for small-scale producers

Beuchelt, Tina; Zeller, Manfred; Oberthur, Thomas - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

The marketing of coffee through group-based, certified market channels is often promoted by governments and donors as a viable business model for poor small-scale farmers. Organic and fairtrade coffees have become very popular among socially, environmentally and health conscious consumers in...

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China’s Agricultural Modernisation Program: an assessment of its sustainability and impacts in the case of the high-value beef chain

Waldron, Scott A.; Brown, Colin G.; Longworth, John W. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

China has embarked on a major program to modernise agricultural and agribusiness structures with far reaching …

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The "new" agriculture

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Farm Program Conflicts: The $50,000 Case

Nuckton, Carole Frank - In: Choices 04 (1989) 4

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Panhandle Model Farms: Case Studies of Texas High Plains Agriculture

Jones, Diana L.; Baros, Jonathan R.; Klose, Steven L. - In: Journal of Food Distribution Research 42 (2011) 1

FARM assistance program. Financial and Risk Management (FARM) Assistance is a highly specialized Extension effort aimed at …-support simulation model that uses both farm-level information supplied by participating producers and market price forecasts from the … forecast of the individual farm or ranch. Additional work has focused on identifying the characteristics of successful versus …

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On-Farm Impacts of environmental policy – a journey through time

Shadbolt, Nicola; Valentine, Barbara - New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2013

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Turning farms into businesses: Some unexpected consequences of neoliberalism for New Zealand farmers

Hunt, Lesley; Rosin, Chris; Campbell, Hugh; … - New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2013

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Cost Efficiency of Dairy Farming in New Zealand: a stochastic frontier analysis

Jiang, Nan; Sharp, Basil - New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2013

Historically NZ dairy farming has held a position as the lowest cost, non-subsidized producers at the farm gate … and 80% for the South Island. Analysis of the relationship between inefficiency and farm characteristics suggests … significant associations exist between capital intensity, livestock quality, farm size and cost efficiency. …

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Trade opportunities from the EU-ACP EPAs: Prospects for the Fresh Fruits and Vegetables subsector in Uganda

Guloba, Madina; Ogwal, Francis - Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC) - 2011

With the signing of the EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) in January 2009, Uganda as a member of the ACP, should endeavour to re-strategize itself to benefit from the opportunities such trading blocks create through increased trade. Trade is likely to increase with EPA in place and...

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Improved Smallholder Dairy Farming in Uganda through Technological Change

Mbowa, Swaibu; Shinyekwa, Isaac; Lwanga, Musa - Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC) - 2012

percent) in the proportion of crossbred dairy cows in the national herd (estimated to be 11 million cattle). At farm level … low farm gate milk prices could deter the optimal uptake of required dairy farm husbandry practices in the milk surplus …

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