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Cotton Futures Dynamics: Structural Change, Index Traders and the Returns to Storage
Power, Gabriel J.; Robinson, John R.C. - Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, … - 2009
The commodity bull cycle of 2006-2008 and subsequent dramatic price decline have been a source of hardship for traditional commodity market participants such as producers and merchant/shippers. The usefulness of futures markets has been called into question, especially given that some market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368370
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Cotton Futures Dynamics: Structural Change, Index Traders and the Returns to Storage
Power, Gabriel J.; Robinson, John R.C. - 2009
The commodity bull cycle of 2006-2008 and subsequent dramatic price decline have been asource of hardship for traditional commodity market participants such as producers andmerchant/shippers. The usefulness of futures markets has been called into question, especiallygiven that some market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446392
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What Does Liberalization without Price Competition Achieve? The Case of Cocoa in Ghana.
Vigneri, Marcella; Santos, Paulo - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
The deregulation of Ghana’s domestic cocoa supply chain that took place in the early 1990s was expected to bring … finds that price based competition mechanisms did not develop in the resulting domestic cocoa value chain. Rather, the now … increasing numbers of Licensed Buying Companies compete for cocoa supplies based on the provision of different services to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010913588
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Impact of Collective Marketing by Cocoa Farmers’ Organizations in Cameroon
Kamdem, Cyrille Bergaly; Melachio Tameko, André; … - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2013
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the impact of collective marketing by FO on cocoa farmer’s price in Cameroun. This … cocoa farmers in Centre region in Cameroon during the 2005/2006 season. Results show that collective marketing has a … Matching”. Data used come from 2006 IITA cocoa baseline survey conducted between March 15 and April 15, 2006 and concern 601 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011207606
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The Value of USDA Crop Progress and Condition Information: Reactions of Corn and Soybean Futures Markets
Lehecka, Georg V. - In: Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 39 (2014) 1
This paper investigates the informational value of USDA crop progress and condition information by analyzing reactions of corn and soybean futures markets from 1986 to 2012. Results show significant differences between close-to-open return variabilities on report-release trading days and pre-...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010918078
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Spatial Price Analysis Incorporating Rate of Trade: Methods and Application to United States–China Soybean Trade
Han, Shengfei; Durham, Catherine A. - 2010
A regime-switching model for analysis of market integration has been developed that incorporates rate of trade information. An application of the methods to United States–China soybean trade demonstrates that the extended trade information allows better interpretation of market conditions....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442648
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Spatial Price Analysis Incorporating Rate of Trade: Methods and Application to United States–China Soybean Trade
Han, Shengfei; Durham, Catherine A. - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 42 (2010) 02
A regime-switching model for analysis of market integration has been developed that incorporates rate of trade information. An application of the methods to United States–China soybean trade demonstrates that the extended trade information allows better interpretation of market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530506
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Commercial Agricultural Production in Tanzania: Mountainside Farms Limited
Simpson, John Y.; Cheong, Qing Yang - In: International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 17 (2014) B
The IFAMR is published quarterly by the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association. For complete …
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Sustainable and diversified vegetable-based farming systems in highland regions of West Java
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific … - 2008
This study coincided with a research project "Identification of Pulling Factors for Enhancing the Sustainable Development of Diverse Agriculture in Selected Asian Countries (AGRIDIV), co-ordinated by CAPSA. While AGRIDIV project focused on poverty alleviation through secondary crop based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008741287
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Pengembangan agribisnis berbasis palawija di Indonesia: perannya dalam peningkatan ketahanan pangan dan pengentasan kemiskinan: prosiding seminar nasional, Bogor, 13 Juli 2006
Napitupulu, Togar Alam; Manikmas, Made Oka A.; Kasim, … - Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific …
This book is a proceeding of a national seminar on the development of secondary crops-based agribusiness in Indonesia … for Food Crops Research and Development (ICFORD). It was attended by farmers, agribusiness players, researchers …/policy and programmes to develop agroindustrial sector, marketing and trade, success stories, as well as problems faced by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008741314