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Improving the Quality of Women’s Gold in Mali, West Africa: The Case of Shea
Perakis, Sonja Melissa - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009
women’s cash income in many of Mali’s shea producing areas. Internationally, shea has recently become popular in high …-sector-development and rural-poverty-alleviation programs and strategies. Information asymmetry in the production and marketing of shea has …The collection, primary processing, and subsequent sale of shea-based products make an important contribution to rural …
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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)
marketing activities. However, publications by China's State Statistical Bureau underestimate animal product consumption. Such … underestimated statistics affect policy making and marketing initiatives and also lead to the estimation of distorted parameters that …
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Agricultural Clusters in China
Kiminami, Lily; Kiminami, Akira - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
The purpose of this study is to assess the potential of clustering in the development of agriculture and rural communities in China. We shall examine in detail the food industry, which is the link in the food chain that propels the industrialization of agriculture, and identify instances of...
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Impact of Third-Party Enforcement of Contracts in Agricultural Markets – A Field Experiment in Vietnam
Saenger, Christoph; Torero, Maximo; Qaim, Matin - Institut für Agrarökonomie, Georg-August-Universität … - 2013
We study the effect of alleviating information asymmetry regarding product quality that is widespread in developing-country agricultural markets. Opportunistic buyers may underreport quality levels back to farmers to reduce the price they have to pay. In response, farmers may curb investment,...
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Impact of Third-Party Enforcement of Contracts in Agricultural Markets–A Field Experiment in Vietnam
Saenger, Christoph; Torero, Maximo; Qaim, Matin - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
Asymmetry of information is a fundamental problem in agricultural markets. Production contracts remain incomplete if product quality attributes measured by the buying company remain unobservable for the selling farmer. Opportunistic buyers would report lower than actual output quality,...
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Cover and Contents Pages
2009
Includes cover page, journal info, contents page, and editorial information
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Uganda's revealed comparative advantage: the evidence with the EAC and China
Shinyekwa, Isaac; Othieno, Lawrence - Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC) - 2011
The paper examines the comparative advantage of Uganda’s exports to the East African Community (EAC) partner states, and how it has evolved during the implementation of the EAC treaty. In addition, the paper seeks to identify commodities that Uganda should specialize in as a basis to enhance...
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The potential impact of the EU-ACP economic partnership Agreement: A case study of the Ugandan horticulture sector
Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC); Economic Policy … - 2010
Uganda has had formal trade ties with Europe since 1973 when, together with several other commonwealth countries, it signed the Lomé Convention. However, trade relations between Europe and Africa started much earlier, in 1957, at first covering 18 francophone countries and six European...
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Multi-level Processes of Integration and Disintegration. Proceedings of the Third Green Week Scientific Conference.
Schaft, Franziska - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2009
This volume of proceedings, available as both a hard copy and a pdf file, is an edited compilation of selected contributions to the MACE Conference 2009, held in Berlin, Germany, at the ICC from 14 to 15 January 2009. We would like to thank all those persons and organisations who contributed to...
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Agri-food business: Global challenges â Innovative solutions
Swinnen, Johan F.M.; Vandemartele, Thijs; Hirschauer, … - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2008
The rise of a western-style middle class in many successful emerging economies like China currently is inducing deep structural changes on agricultural world markets and within the global agri-food business. As a result of both higher incomes and concerns over product safety and quality the...
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