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RISK, UNCERTAINTY AND THE AGRICULTURAL FIRM:

Moss, Charles B - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

This text is the first major survey of risk analysis from the perspective of the agricultural firms since Agricultural Decision Analysis by Anderson, Dillon, and Hardaker published in 1977. In addition to updating the traditional material from that text, this book includes the statistical...

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Creating Value in the Durum Wheat Supply Chain: the Barilla experience in Contract Farming in Italy

Ferrari, Emilio - In: ECONOMIA AGRO-ALIMENTARE 16 (2014) 1, pp. 179-188

Barilla is an Italian Family company founded in Parma more than 130 years ago. It is now the leading company in the world pasta market. Durum Wheat is the main raw material with a total consumption of around 1.5 Million tons per year. Due to the limited world production of around 30 Million tons...

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Modernising Canada's Agricultural Policies

Jarrett, Peter; Kobayakawa, Shuji - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2008

The agricultural sector in Canada is relatively large, compared to those in most other G7 countries. In recent years, the federal and provincial governments have undertaken a number of sectoral reforms to meet the competitiveness and environmental challenges that it faces. The federal government...

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Il social banking per le filiere corte: aspetti etici e fiscali

Briamonte, Lucia; Pergamo, Raffaella - In: ECONOMIA AGRO-ALIMENTARE 15 (2013) 2, pp. 51-72

The relationship between the banking system and the agricultural sector ismarked by several difficulties related to firm size, variability in agriculturalincomes, technical risks and strict evaluation rules for creditworthiness. On theother hand, a progressive distancing of production from...

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Valutazioni di convenienza e di sostenibilità per le imprese del comparto del Prosciutto di Parma Dop: un’analisi attraverso l’applicazione di indici economici e finanziari

Bonazzi, Giuseppe; Iotti, Mattia; Paduano, Fabio - In: RIVISTA DI ECONOMIA AGRARIA LXVII (2012) 2, pp. 61-98

Parma Pdo Ham sector is characterized by the great presence of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and by high absorption of capital to finance investments in fixed assets and working capital. The aging of pork leg causes in fact a high capital requirements for a period of at least 12...

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Modernising Canada's Agricultural Policies

Jarrett, Peter - 2008

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Chapter 65 Farm Size

Eastwood, Robert; Lipton, Michael; Newell, Andrew - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 4, (pp. 3323-3397). 2010

What patterns can be discerned in the distribution of farm sizes across countries and over time? How does the behavior … of individual economic agents interact with the natural environment and general economic development to affect farm size … find that operated farm size rises with economic development, especially in the 20 th century, with marked exceptions …

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Does the contract type matter? : impact of marketing and production contracts on cashew farmers' farm performance in Ghana

Dubbert, Caroline; Abdulai, Awudu - In: Journal of agricultural & food industrial organization 20 (2022) 2, pp. 119-134

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Forecasting the Probability of Receiving and Use of Grants by Farmers through Logistical Statistical Models

Anastasova-Chopeva, Minka - In: Economic Thought journal (2008) 1, pp. 13-25

Examined are the changes that will occur in the probability of use of possible grants after direct payments for a unit of area in agriculture are available. Related to this is examined the dependence between the sought possibility and the economic size of farms trough logistical statistical...

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Facilitating Savings for Agriculture: Field Experimental Evidence from Malawi

Brune, Lasse; Giné, Xavier; Goldberg, Jessica; Yang, Dean - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

We implemented a randomized intervention among Malawian farmers aimed at facilitating formal savings for agricultural inputs. Treated farmers were offered the opportunity to have their cash crop harvest proceeds deposited directly into new bank accounts in their own names, while farmers in the...

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