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Assessment of a Farmer Base Network in Promoting an Integrated Farming System at the Mekong Delta in Vietnam

Vo, Ha Van; Dang, Nhan Kieu; Thach, Ngoc Le; Tran, Be Thanh - In: Asian Journal of Agriculture and Development 10 (2013) 2, pp. 39-58

This study analyzed forces driving the emergence of farmer networks in Vietnam and quantified the benefits of an … farming households economic, environmental, and social benefits and food security. Networking and practicing IFS are … social networking, and hence adopt and practice IFS efficiently and contribute to rural poverty reduction. These benefits of …

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Perceived Traceability Costs and Benefits in the Italian Fisheries Supply Chain

Asioli, Daniele; Boecker, Andreas; Canavari, Maurizio - In: International Journal on Food System Dynamics 02 (2011) 4

The paper proposes a model in which it is hypothesized that firm characteristics influence both costs and benefits of … costs and benefits on the one hand and perceived actual outcomes on the other, and is tested in a series of regression … strongly associated with any specific cost or benefit measure. However, expected overall benefits are highly significantly …

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Regional Economic Implications of Water Allocation and Reliability

Harris, Simon; Doak, Murray; Ford, Stuart; Bywater, Tony; … - 2005

The understanding of how allocation decisions can maximise the economic returns to the community from water for irrigation has received little attention, but is a significant issue for regional councils, those interested in water allocation policy development, and for irrigated farmers. There is...

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The Relationship Between Wildfire and Welfare

Kaval, Pamela; Loomis, John B. - 2005

We used the well-being evaluation method, a technique for measuring individual utility, to study how people in the wildland urban interface of Colorado (USA) felt about their lives before and after two wildfire scenarios. Variables such as age, family size, fire frequency, and house value were...

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Policy and Institutional effects on market participation by smallholder rice farmers: case studies in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger

Toure, Ali; Bamba, Ibrahim; Diagne, Aliou; Harouna, Kore; … - 2008

Rice sector contributes significantly to secure households with regard to their food needs but also to the creation of employments and income generation. The sector development and its evolution over the years have been marked by various policies and approaches. These development stages of the...

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Production Contracts and Farm Business Growth and Survival

Key, Nigel D. - 2010

In recent decades there has been a substantial increase in the scale of production and the use of production contracts in the hog sector. This paper explores empirically whether these two phenomena are related by examining whether the use of production contracts has allowed finish hog operations...

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Live and Feeder Cattle Options Markets: Returns, Risk, and Volatility Forecasting

Brittain, Lee; Garcia, Philip; Irwin, Scott H. - 2009

The paper examines empirical returns from holding thirty- and ninety-day call and put positions,and the forecasting performance of implied volatility in the live and feeder cattle optionsmarkets. In both markets, implied volatility is an upwardly biased and inefficient predictor ofrealized...

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