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Cooperativismo e associativismo na produção agropecuária de menor porte no Brasil
Ramos, Érica Basílio Tavares; Vieira Filho, José … - 2021
Collective production organizations (cooperatives and associations) can bargain for better prices and lower costs …, it is believed that collective production organizations (cooperatives or producers' associations) contribute to the … presence of cooperatives and associations in Brazilian municipalities. Then, the sources of technical efficiency of the smaller …
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Tendencias y Perspectivas de la Agricultura Familiar en América Latina (Trends and Prospects of Family Farming in Latin America)
Maletta, Hector E. - 2012
For a long time, fostering the prosperity of family farming has been among desirable policy goals in Latin America. The notion of family farming underlying those goals and the related analyses is rather imprecise and is frequently used very loosely. This paper critically revises the concept of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013114236
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Considerations regarding the association/cooperation of small and medium fruit producers
Marin, Ancuţa - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 278-283). 2017
Between March 2017 and April 2017, ICEADR Institute conducted a survey among the Romanian fruit producers, in order to identify the problems they face and to highlight their opinions. The survey's results were used to find solutions for an efficient exploitation of fruits’ production....
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Are young maize and rice farmers' profit efficient? : a gender differential analysis
Fani, Djomo Choumbou Raoul; Ukpe, Udeme Henrietta; … - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 2, pp. 1-18
The recent trend of development policy makes emphasis on gender disparity in performance, especially in the agricultural sector whereby women partake and play a crucial role and their contribution to the sector cannot be overemphasized. However, the contention is whether such disparity in...
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Faire corps avec les agriculteurs. La presse professionnelle agricole : un enjeu syndical pour la FNSEA
Chupin, Ivan; Mayance, Pierre - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013
This article questions the importance of agricultural press for the majoritarian farmers’union, the FNSEA, dealing with the question of its representativeness. At first, the authors highlight a phased trend towards press concentration to the benefit of majority union. During challenging times,...
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Sucessão nas fazendas familiares: Problemas e desafios
de Oliveira, Walber Machado; Vieira Filho, José … - 2018
Family farms - whether small, medium-sized or large - remain as the largely predominant unit of production in agriculture throughout the world. This work examines the succession process in such entrepreneurships, through which the accumulated knowledge in management and the business assets are...
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Sucessão dos negócios na agricultura: Experiências internacionais e políticas públicas
de Oliveira, Walber Machado; Vieira Filho, José … - 2019
The promotion of the transition of family farms to the next generations leads to consequences to the whole agricultural sector. Progress and economical and social stability are associated to the continuity of the rural entrepreneurships. Public policies to Brazilian agriculture must consider its...
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Off-farm labour supply and production efficiency of farm household in rural Southwest Nigeria
Shittu, Adebayo M. - In: Agricultural and Food Economics : AFE 2 (2014), pp. 1-21
This study examines the influence of off-farm employment on production efficiency of farm household in Southwest Nigeria. The study was based on primary data collected from a cross-section of 489 rural farm households, drawn by multi-stage random sampling from Ogun and Oyo States, in Southwest...
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Intra-household resource allocation and familial ties
Kazianga, Harounan; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2016
In this paper, we investigate the link between intra-household resource allocation and familial ties between household members. We show that, within the same geographic, economic and social environments, households where members have "stronger" familial ties (e.g. a nuclear family household)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011439836