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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Agricultural commodities"”.
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United States grades for perishable agricultural commodities
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of General Business, Curriculum in Food Distribution, 1956
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Time-varying hedge ratio estimation for selected agricultural commodities and products
The use of autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (ARCH) models to estimate time-varying hedge ratios suggests that conventional procedures may not provide the optimal hedge ratios. However, the initial results using ARCH models raise several questions regarding time-varying hedge ratios. …
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A study of Japan’s protection for selected agricultural commodities in the period between 1972 and 1977
… at the level of protection afforded to Japan's agricultural industry (selected commodities), with respect to the 'self-sufficiency in foodstuffs' objective and the reliance on imported feedgrains. Specifically, this study incorporates non-tariff barriers (NTBs) into the tariff structure in …
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The availability of federal agricultural commodities and the implications for community organizations feeding the hungry in Boston
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1984.
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An analysis of some aspects of Public Law 480
… July, 1954, for the purpose of utilizing surplus agricultural commodities to further the foreign policy of the United States. The Act provides that surplus agricultural commodities shall be sold for foreign currencies, with the proceeds of the sales used for trade development, economic …
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Farmer participation in government commodity programs: A multiyear risk management analysis
Government programs for agricultural commodities affect planting decisions and farm income for many producers. Many proposals to reduce federal expenditures are being considered for reform in the 1995 Farm Bill. In order to determine the effect of these proposals on both farmers and government, the …
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Understanding the impacts of agricultural commodity price volatility on Nebraska's economy : a systems approach
Agricultural production is one of the cornerstones of Nebraska's economy and acts as a driver for the state's economy. Nebraska's geography, infrastructure, and industry all support agriculture, and many industries within the state depend on the labor and goods from agricultural producers. In …
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The global governance of trade in agriculture: the role of tariff and non-tariff measures illustrated with an example of agricultural exports from South Africa to the EU
… importance to food security and employment, the agricultural sector is a source of international conflict and inherently vulnerable to shocks and insecurities in the past and present. Accordingly, nation-states view respective domesticagricultural sectors as an exception, which …
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Potential economic implications of a U.S. – ASEAN FTA on agriculture
… of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is both an agricultural trade partner of the U.S. and a key contributor to the global agricultural market. The implementation of a free trade agreement (FTA) between the U.S. and ASEAN has the potential to reduce or eliminate tariffs on agricultural …
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Quantile Connectedness and Tail Risks: Interactions between Agricultural and Energy Markets
… and tail-risk dynamics between energy and agricultural commodity markets using a quantile vector autoregression (QVAR) model. We investigate connectedness in the futures contract returns of ten commodities, including energy products (crude oil, heating oil, gasoline, natural gas) and …
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MEASURING PUBLIC PREFERENCES FOR AND THE ECONOMIC VALUE OF THE MULTIFUNCTIONALITY OF AGRICULTURE IN THE UNITED STATES
There is a growing consensus that agricultural and rural lands contribute more than just commodity outputs; they also contribute non-market or non-commodity outputs as well. These non-market attributes of agriculture are well documented; ecosystem services, rural heritage, rural economic validity, …
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Currency devaluation and resource mobilization in the agricultural sector: Welfare and trade balance implications in Cameroon
… a distinction between tradeable and nontradeable agricultural commodities and an exploration of how different commodity systems are affected by alternative policies. Second, the formulation provides a framework to examine how micro-level markets in the agricultural sector respond to macro-level …
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Identifying perceptions associated with agricultural chemical use: Implications for pesticide applicator training programs in Illinois
… applicators have perceived issues related to agricultural chemical use and what applicators have believed to be true about perceptions held by the public on similar issues. Stakeholders having rural orientations were perceived to be more inclined to be supportive of the use of chemicals in the …
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Tracing The Economy-Wide Impact Of Agricultural Drought In The Northern Cape: A Social Accounting Matrix (SAM)-based Multiplier Analysis
… Cape economy of an exogenous shock to the agricultural sector (such as a drought). By analysing the ripple effects of agricultural drought, this exercise highlights the multiplier effects (direct, indirect and induced effects) that manifest through the backward and forward linkages between …
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Social Ecography : International trade, network analysis, and an Emmanuelian conceptualization of ecological unequal exchange
… trade data for two commodity types – primary agricultural goods and fuel commodities – for the period 1995-1999. As the selected commodities can be seen as adequate representations of the third Ricardian production factor, i.e. natural resources, ecological unequal exchange as conceptualized …
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Interactions between a changing agricultural landscape and regional trade
… past few decades, international trade including agricultural commodities has grown substantially both in physical volume and in value. International trade of agricultural products masks the true distribution of agricultural land services by importing and exporting agricultural goods through …
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The impacts of trade and agricultural policies in the Dominican Republic: a sector programming approach
… and used to analyze the impacts of trade and agricultural policies in the Dominican Republic. The model includes ten agricultural commodities which accounted for 75 percent of the total value of agricultural production in 1988. Linear demand functions for the commodities are included and the …
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Determination of farm animal exposure to multiple mycotoxins and assessment of novel mycotoxin binders
Fungal contamination of agricultural commodities, particularly by mycotoxigenic fungi, represents a huge concern for global food security in terms of feeding the world's growing population with sufficient and safe food. Not only do they reduce crop yield and quality, but also produce vast number of …
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Groundwater depletion embodied in transfers and exports of the United States
… global food security by producing and exporting agricultural products all over the world. Irrigation from groundwater resources is increasingly important in agricultural production in the US. Groundwater withdrawals for irrigation have nearly tripled since records began in 1950, even accounting …
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