We examine the impact of a six-fold increase in the global vanilla price on smallholder vanilla-farming households in Madagascar. The price increase leads to sizable gains in household assets and significant improvements in adult psychological well-being, cognitive performance, and optimism...

The research paper aims to provide a better understanding of the export dynamics and competitiveness of Indian Agricultural Commodities. The study analyses the export data of the last 35 years for APEDA products and the last 35 years of Tobacco exports, as well as the last 10 years of Spices,...

In the Central Highlands of Vietnam, coffee (Coffea canephora) and pepper (Peper nigrum) farmers have started transitioning from monoculture practices towards intercropping and agroforestry practices. Interviews of 220 farmers were conducted in the three provinces of Dak Lak, Dak Nong and Gia...

We contribute to the long debate on whether export commodity revenues can lead to economic development by studying the consequences of the nearly six-fold increase in the global price of vanilla on vanilla farming communities in Madagascar. We find a substantial increase in the wealth and...

Smoked fish, although highly appreciated, is a very perishable product due to its chemical composition, hence the need to add bio-preservatives such as spices which also add value to the finished product. In this preliminary study, the antioxidant capacity, the antimicrobial activity, the...

Scarcity of freshwater is becoming an increasing problem in Nigeria, hence, the need to explore other sources of water such as greywater for irrigation purposes. This study was conducted to investigate the effects of treated greywater on some growth parameters of pepper in Akure, Nigeria. Raw...

The global market is experiencing stagnation and recession in the “untact era”, and the emergence of the metaverse provides platform support and presents a new paradigm. This study aims to provide a framework for content creators and marketers to verify the effectiveness of metaverse...

VC: An American History offers a compelling chronicle of the development of professional venture capital (VC) in the United States, from VC-like forebearers as diverse as 18th century cotton manufacturing and 19th century whaling up to the state of the modern VC market at the turn of the...

India's Security Market regulator.i.e., Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) thinks that the most important regulation of the Indian Securities Market that is the Take Over Code has been through a tough time and has been tested quite a few times due to numerous corporate takeover clashes...

In Apple v. Pepper the Supreme Court held that consumers who allegedly paid too much for apps sold on Apple’s iStore could sue Apple for antitrust damages because they were “direct purchasers.” The decision reflects some bizarre complexities that have resulted from the Supreme Court’s...

This chapter gives an overview of the company legislation and corporate governance regulation in Finland, indicating also, to a certain extent, the practice related to and the effect of the regulation. The first section includes an overview of relevant acts and other sources of law. The main...

In Apple v. Pepper, the US Supreme Court held that iPhone users were direct purchasers of apps from Apple, which, according to precedent set by Illinois Brick v. Illinois, made them the proper plaintiffs to sue Apple for antitrust damages. The damages were the result of Apple's alleged...

Indtroduction: Currently, Ethiopia is following an agricultural development-led industrialization strategy with a major goal of helping agriculture grow so that it can encourage growth in other sectors of the country’s economy. However, it is characterized by low productivity due to technical...

Red pepper is the world’s second important vegetable ranking after tomatoes. It is the most common spice type which is produced for both commercial and consumption purposes due to its great role in flavoring, food coloring and source of vitamins and minerals. It is also an important cash crop...

Firms collaborating with their customers and suppliers have emerged as a dominant theme in supply chain management. This interest is fuelled by a growing body of evidence that suggests that effective collaboration can generate many useful outcomes. The management of the downstream side of the...

The process of determining the price of a commodity based on supply and demand factors is the Price discovery function. The Futures markets play an important role in the price discovery of agricultural commodities. The importance of commodity derivatives markets is increasing every day,...

"This book describes the central role that these exotic luxuries - spices, scents and silks - played in the lives of the ancients, traces the development of the great international trade networks that delivered them, and explores how the demand for such luxuries shaped the world."

This paper is to analyze the efficiency of agricultural spices commodity markets by assessing the relationships between futures prices and spot market prices of major agricultural spices commodities in India during the sample period of January 2010 through December 2014. The econometric tools...

Bell pepper, either fresh or preserved, is one of the most common vegetables in the Romanian cuisine, being appreciated for its health benefits, which is why its cultivattion is extremely widespread throughout the country. The paper addresses scientifically the methods necessary for analyzing...

We examine the relationship between spot and futures prices for selected five agricultural commodities, namely, Chilli, Coriander, Jeera, Pepper and Turmeric. We considered all the contracts of the above commodities over a period of 36 months, from Jan 2008 to Dec 2010. The study examined the...

This paper explores how the elimination of Madagascar's Marketing Board in 1995 affected prices paid to farmers, incentives, and regional indicators of poverty and inequality. After steadily losing market share, Madagascar has been able to regain some of the lost ground since the mid-1990s....

"This book offers an interpretation of the two fragmentary texts of the P. Vindobonensis G 40822, now widely referred to as the Muziris papyrus. Without these two texts, there would be no knowledge of the Indo-Roman trade practices. The book also compares and contrasts the texts of the Muziris...

The idea of this paper is to present how Vanilla Market Models, i.e. Models where we directly diffuse the vanillas, can be used in practice. We provide some already known formulae to guarantee that there are neither dynamic nor static arbitrage, extend these results and present them in a...

The AB Report in US-Clove Cigarettes confirmed the Panel’s conclusions that imported clove cigarettes were ‘like’ US menthol cigarettes, and accorded ‘less favourable treatment’ for the purpose of national treatment under Article 2.1 TBT, but it employed significantly different logic....

The futures contract plays an important role in price discovery and risk management. The contracts prices have an impact on spot prices and are also used for risk management by hedging. This paper reviews the casual relationship between black pepper spot and futures prices through regression and...