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Dynamic Adjustment of U.S. Agriculture to Energy Price Changes
Lambert, David K.; Gong, Jian - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 42 (2010) 02
Energy prices increased significantly following the first energy price shock of 1973. Agricultural producers found few short run substitution possibilities as relative factor prices changed. Inelastic demands resulted in total expenditures on energy inputs that have closely followed energy price...
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Determinants of Agro-Dealers’ Participation in the Loan Market in Nigeria
Olomola, Aderibigbe S. - In: International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 17 (2014) 3
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How Much Animal Product do the Chinese Consume? Empirical Evidence from Household Surveys
Wang, Ji-Min; Zhou, Zhang-Yue; Yang, Jun - In: Australasian Agribusiness Review 12 (2004)
Reliable information about animal product consumption in China is extremely important for policy formulation and … underestimated statistics affect policy making and marketing initiatives and also lead to the estimation of distorted parameters that …
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Agricultural Productivity and Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa
Yu, Bingxin; Nin Pratt, Alejandro - 2011
changes in the output structure and an adjustment in the use of inputs. Policy interventions, including fiscal, trade and …
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Evaluation of investment support in rural development programmes: results for selected measures
Ortner, Karl M. - In: Rural Areas and Development 9
The Common Monitoring and Evaluation Framework (CMEF) for Rural Development Programmes (RDP) by the European Commission's Directorate General for Agriculture and Rural Development provides for common indicators to estimate effects of the respective measures. Their estimation has to rely on...
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Linking Smallholder Farmers to Commercial Sector Activities: The Case of Eastern Africa with Special Attention to Niche Commodities
Van Damme, Patrick - University of the Philippines Mindanao
analysis defined major bottlenecks and the issues to be addressed. An enabling policy environment, multisectoral stakeholder …
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IS A PUBLIC REGULATION OF FOOD PRICE VOLATILITY FEASIBLE IN AFRICA? AN ARCH APPROACH IN KENYA
Maitre d'Hotel, Elodie; le Cotty, Tristan; Jayne, Thomas S. - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2012
The 2007-2008 food crisis and current food price swings led economists to re-evaluate the potential for policy … policy to lower food price volatility does not depend on the nature of the policy instrument only, but also on the … tradition of public intervention, and by the persistence of highly volatile prices. The consistency of the policy use appears to …
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Applying MBIs for sustainable natural resource and environmental management in South Australia: Challenges and opportunities
Shi, Tian - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2006
desirable manner. It is important to note that MBIs often rely on a regulatory framework and carefully designed policy …
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The future of food and farming
Beddington, Sir John - In: International Journal of Agricultural Management 01 (2011) 2
The UK Government Chief Scientist takes stock of the enormous challenges facing governments and citizens in balancing the competing pressures and demands on the global food system, not least in providing an adequate and sustainable nutrition for a rapidly-expanding population against the...
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Proceedings of the Privatization Workshop held in Sudan, 1996.
International Water Management Institute (IWMI); … - 1996
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