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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Agricultural markets"”.
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Data-Driven Supply Regulation to Improve Farmers’ Income in Agricultural Markets
… livelihood and connect physically distant markets, the Karnataka state government in India launched the Unified Market Platform (UMP) in 2014. The UMP is an online agri-platform used to facilitate commodity auction markets. In this research we assume the role of the state government and …
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Application of Austrian Economic Theory and Complexity Theory to the Institutional Evolution of Agricultural Markets
However, in spite of the theoretical and methodological contributions of this research, there are a number of limitations. One such limitation stems from the computational and memory constraints imposed by the Mathematica programming software. In addition, model validation and verification …
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An agency/transactions-costs approach and application to vertical coordination arrangements in food and agricultural markets
… and sellers along a continuum including spot markets and vertical integration at the extremes, and contracts in between. By including asset specificity in a principal-agent model under conditions of uncertainty and different risk attitudes, the study's main argument has been that both …
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A trade simulation analysis of the impacts of United States trade barriers on selected Taiwanese agricultural exports
… was to evaluate how liberalization of agricultural markets, as emerged from the Uruguay round of negotiations, alter existing trade patterns. The study provides welfare estimations of full and partial trade liberalization in selected agricultural processed products of importance in …
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A Stochastic Welfare Analysis of United States Rice Policy
… welfare analysis, showing how government agricultural policies may improve economic welfare by reducing price risk faced by farmers. This study contributes to provide an empirical evidence on the magnitude of potential economic welfare gains of agricultural policies from reducing price …
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Livelihood strategies of farmers in Bolivar, Ecuador: asset distribution, activity selection and income generation decisions in rural households
… households engaged in diversified activities, agricultural markets, non-farm activities, and agricultural wage work. Most households are engaged in agricultural markets followed by households in diversified activities. Households engaged in agricultural markets own higher amounts of natural and …
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Rural territorial dynamics in northeast Brazil: the Jiquiriçá Valley in Bahia
… survey data. The Jiquiriçá valley is an agricultural region characterised by family farming, and forms one of 26 clusters of municipalities in Bahia designated as Territórios de Identidade under policies promoting participation in development planning. The study applied geographical and …
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Three essays on agriculture, environment and human capital formation in India
… failures that affect farmers' returns in rural agricultural markets. The setting for all three studies is India where indicators of health and human development remain low, particularly in rural areas where majority of the households rely on agriculture as a primary source of livelihood. In …
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Montgomery County and economic growth, 1776-1860
… County, Virginia from the state's eastern agricultural markets. This mountain barrier restricted the transportation of crops and therefore limited farm products to subsistence crops and easily transported livestock. Only after the construction of the Allegheny Turnpike in 1809, and the …
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Determinants of output prices formation in local sheep markets - the case of Amathole and Joe Xabi (Ukhahlamba), Eastern Cape
… sets of determinants of price formation in local agricultural markets - structural drivers, institutional factors and livelihood shocks - to account for the variations in prices that smallholder farmers receive. Data were collected from 134 households that were selected using purpose sampling and …
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Product and Exchange of Attributes in Defining Boundaries for Value -Added Corn and Soybean Markets
… of product and market boundaries in agricultural markets. In the first paper, we use an estimated processed valuation model and quality data obtained from international processors, to examine whether soybean quality attributes significantly differ both within and across major …
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Product and Exchange of Attributes in Defining Boundaries for Value-Added Corn and Soybean Markets
… of product and market boundaries in agricultural markets. In the first paper, we use an estimated processed valuation model and quality data obtained from international processors, to examine whether soybean quality attributes significantly differ both within and across major …
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Mexican Peasants and the Mexican State: Reform and Continuity
… to compete in the national and international agricultural markets have experienced a growing pluralist enclave. This two-tiered arrangement was created during a period when multiple agents of change challenged the status quo: on-going electoral reforms, debt crisis and repeated economic …
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Do prices drive commercial trader positions in grains and oilseeds markets?
… aggregate net positioning in grains and oilseeds markets during the pre-harvest period from 2007-2019. We proceed in two steps. First, we modify and extend the analysis of optimal hedging proposed by Jacobs, Li, and Hayes (AJAE 2018) to: (i) confirm its applicability for the two largest …
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Market orientation in production agriculture: measurement, relationships, and implications
Over the past several decades, the agricultural marketplace has transitioned from a completely price driven, homogeneous, commodity market towards a more differentiated and fragmented product market characterized by heterogeneous consumers, firms and value offerings. Examples of this change are …
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Modeling Food Commodity Prices and Market Dynamics
… from 2014 to 2024 across 14 Mississippi River markets, a Spatial Durbin Model with spatial and time fixed effects reveals that higher barge freight rates reduce local corn basis values by roughly five cents per bushel per one-dollar increase in barge rates. Rising barge costs, driven by factors …
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The Exchange Rate and U.S./Canadian Relative Agricultural Prices
… of integration for international commodity markets. The LOP states that in competitive markets after adjustment for transportation costs and trade barriers, identical commodities sold in different countries should sell for the same price when their prices are defined in a common currency. …
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Value creation in the agri-food value chain
Global agricultural markets reflect the increasing complexity of modern consumer demand for food safety and quality. This demand has triggered changes throughout the food industry, and led to greater opportunities for product differentiation and the potential to add value to raw commodities …
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Essays on Adapting to Extreme Shocks: Local Market Correlations and Global Agricultural Trade Responses to Weather and Yield Variability
… climate, and yield variability affect local agricultural markets and global agricultural trade, offering insights to improve resilience and adaptability. It comprises three chapters. The first chapter analyzes the co-movement of corn basis returns among six local market pairs in North …
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