markets. The project provided action‐oriented research results at two levels. At the local level, emphasis was on … farmers face in accessing local markets. At national and regional levels, the aim was to increase market efficiency and access … by poor farmers through research into marketing constraints (e.g. policies, transaction costs) and to decrease the threat …

development community to shift their efforts towards linking farmers to markets through high value added contractual marketing … probabilistic hold-up framework and the case of the USDA Marketing Assistance Program in Armenian dairy industry. Findings indicate …

This paper analyses the impact on investments of contractual arrangements between farms and agribusiness in the … Armenian dairy sector. Our empirical evidence is based on a unique survey of 300 Armenian dairy farms. The dairy sector is of … share of milk producers in Armenia is actively investing to upgrade their farm business. Furthermore, investment activity is …

-country agricultural markets. Opportunistic buyers may underreport quality levels back to farmers to reduce the price they have to pay. In … smallholder dairy farmers in Vietnam to independently verify milk testing results. Treatment farmers use 13 percent more inputs …

This paper assesses the total factor productivity (TFP) growth and efficiency levels in the Indian dairy processing … frontier is used. Our results suggest that total factor productivity in the Indian dairy processing industry has grown … the productivity growth in the Indian dairy industry. The non-increasing returns to scale DEA frontier analysis suggests …

dairy margin insurance programs to those under existing counter-cyclical payment programs. We combine simulation and … structural modeling techniques to forecast milk price and dairy income-over-feed-cost margins. Using the price forecasts we …