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parameters that describe the distribution of productivity and trade costs across products. This approach has the considerable …
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organizations on the canal improves farmers' productivity and the returns to land as was envisioned during the Irrigation Management …
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This study determines the factors leading to adoption of split-sex and phase feeding by U.S. hog producers and consequently the impact of adoption on operation’s input cost performance. A sample selection model is employed to account for unobservable variables possibly being correlated with...
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Since 1990, the farmer cooperative landscape has experienced a significant structural shift. Steep consolidation, elevated competition, and surging commodity prices have elevated the need for co-ops to be mindful of their cost structure and efficiencies. To test for this structural shift, this...
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Scientific paper for dissertation in the Ph.D. program in Natural Sciences for Development Emphasis: Environmental and Culture Management
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The inverse relationship between farm size and productivity has almost become a 'stylised fact' in the economic … between partial and total productivity measures. Using data envelopment analysis, most of the wine grape producers were found … with processing and marketing. The inverse relationship between farm size and both land productivity and total factor …
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contribution to agricultural productivity and small farmer incomes. A relatively neglected avenue of research concerns the … inputs on credit, management training, and other resources that can contribute to food crop productivity, which might …
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impacts that changes in agricultural productivity might have for seven food industry sectors, namely meat, vegetable oils and … productivity and its impacts on production, trade and prices of primary agriculture, and ultimately, food processing sectors. We …
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productivity, especially highlighting how both imperfections negatively affect female productivity by discouraging off-farm income … differences in agricultural labor productivity and market imperfections and it provides empirical evidence consistent with our … productivity is on average 44 percent lower on plots belonging to female-headed households than on those belonging to male …
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