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Increasing food demand will most likely be met with agricultural intensification and land clearing, exacerbating environmental consequences associated with food supply. The mechanisms and trade-offs between agriculture and the environment are heterogeneous and not well understood, yet key to...
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public and private. What we wind up with is a mix of efforts that sometimes overlap, also raising federalism questions. The … nationwide. Drawing from scholarship focused on transnational regimes, we see that decentralized (and public-private mixed …
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Tenancy has been a means for labor to advance their socio-economic condition in agriculture yet in Brazil and Latin America, tenancy rates are low compared to the U.S. and the OECD countries. We test for the importance of insecure property rights in Brazil on the reluctance of landowners to rent...
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diversity of alternative (market, private, collective, public, hybrid) modes of risk management. This paper incorporates the … the (market, private, public and hybrid) modes of their management. Second, it defines the efficiency of risk management … other commodity regulated by the market supply and demand, and the farmers “willingness to pay” for an insurance contract …
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, behavioral, economic, policy, etc.) and the modes of their management (market, private, public, and hybrid). Second, it defines …
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, policy etc.) type of agri-food risks, and the (market, private, public and hybrid) modes of their management. Second, it …
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This paper incorporates the interdisciplinary New Institutional and Transaction Costs Economics (combining Economics, Organization, Law, Sociology, Behavioral and Political Sciences) and suggests a holistic framework for analysis of agrarian contracts. First, it specifies type and importance of...
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Eggs have been important elements of cooking and nutrition in Indonesia for centuries, mostly supplied from ducks and backyard chickens. Consumption of layer eggs has increased 12-fold over the past 30 years, and prices are lowered in central areas of the country. In the outer islands, however,...
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from smallholder farmers at a pan-territorial price that typically exceeds maize market prices in surplus production areas …
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In many developing countries, supermarkets are expanding rapidly. This also affects farmers’ marketing options. Previous studies have analyzed welfare effects for smallholders with crosssection data. Here, we use panel data and a differencing approach to study supply chain dynamics and better...
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