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von Braun, Joachim; Gerber, Nicolas; Mirzabaev, Alisher; … - Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF), Rheinische … - 2013

Healthy soils are essential for sustaining economies and human livelihoods. In spite of this, the key ecosystem services provided by soils have usually been taken for granted and their true value – beyond market value – is being underrated. This pattern of undervaluation of soils is about to...

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Book Review: Toward a Well-Fed World

Hite, James C. - In: Journal of Agricultural Economics Research (1989) 2

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Agricultural Clusters in China

Kiminami, Lily; Kiminami, Akira - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

The purpose of this study is to assess the potential of clustering in the development of agriculture and rural communities in China. We shall examine in detail the food industry, which is the link in the food chain that propels the industrialization of agriculture, and identify instances of...

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Food-safety Standards and Farmers Health: Evidence from Kenyan’s Export Vegetable Growers

Asfaw, Solomon; Mithofer, Dagmar; Waibel, Hermann - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

Limited empirical evidence exists either to confirm or refute the hypotheses that food-safety standards confer a positive external effect on farmers adopting it. This article makes use of health indicators obtained from a random cross-section sample of 439 small-scale export farmers in Kenya to...

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Asymmetric Response of Nutrient Intakes to Cereal Price Changes among the Poor in China: Implications for the Effect of Cereal Price Subsidies on the Poor’s Nutrient Intakes

Shimokawa, Satoru - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

Previous studies commonly assume that the effects of introducing and ending cereal price subsidies on the poor’s nutrient intakes are symmetric. We question the assumption of symmetry and show that the poor’s nutrient intakes respond asymmetrically to declines and increases in the price of...

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Price transmission from international to domestic markets

Greb, Friederike; Jamora, Nelissa; Mengel, Carolin; von … - Institut für Agrarökonomie, Georg-August-Universität … - 2012

This study aims to improve our understanding of the extent and speed of the transmission of international cereal prices to local markets in developing countries. We analyse two samples of price transmission (PT) estimates, one extracted from a comprehensive literature sample of 31 published...

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Up in Smoke?: Agricultural Commercialization,Rising Food Prices and Stunting in Malawi

Wood, Benjamin; Nelson, Carl H.; Kilic, Talip; Murray, … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

Agricultural commercialization, or the transition from food to cash crops, has gained increasing attention over the past few decades. Plans for developing world farmers to focus on labor-intensive cash crops, to exploit their natural comparative advantage, typically depend on stable food markets...

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Nontariff Barriers as Bridge to Cross

Munasib, Abdul B.A.; Roy, Devesh - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2011

Importing country standards emerge as an effective trade barrier when they exceed those of the exporting country’s domestic market. We introduce a new concept: bridge to cross (BTC), the regulatory gap between the exporting and importing countries. Importer regulations cannot be identified in...

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Food Consumption, Food Chains and Market Evolution in São Tomé e Principe: A Case Study in Sub-Sahara Africa

Santo, Severino Espirito; Carvalho, Pacheco de; … - International European Forum on Innovation and System … - 2012

São Tomé e Principe is a small country in the middle of the Atlantic and exactly located at the Equator. It is a country where food consumption has been mainly dependent upon local production (where nature is very exuberant), but where imports, donations and globalization are determinant...

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An Assessment of Consumer Satisfaction for Food Retail Chains: A Case Study from Turkey

Akpinar, Goksel; Gul, Mevlut; Gulcan, Sinem - International European Forum on Innovation and System … - 2011

Consumer oriented marketing concept appeared to be effective in accordance to the shift from the traditional marketing … approach to the modern marketing approach. This process brings about the concept of customer value in retail food sector as it … firms into value based marketing concept. Due to the positive effect on the relationship between customer value and customer …

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