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Portfolios of Agricultural Market Advisory Services: How Much Diversification is Enough?
Cabrini, Silvina M.; Stark, Brian G.; Irwin, Scott H.; … - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 37 (2005) 01
This study analyzes the potential risk-reduction gains from naïve diversification among market advisory services for … corn and soybeans. The total possible decrease in risk through naïve diversification is small, mainly because advisory …
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Impact of Credit Access on Charcoal Productivity: Implication for Sustainable Development, Oyo- State
Olagunju, F.I.; Ojedokun, I.K.; Ogunwole–Olapade, F. - In: Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development 03 (2013) 07
The impact of credit on charcoal productivity was assessed in Oyo state of southwestern Nigeria. Multi-stage sampling method was used to select 140 respondents. Data used in this study were gathered from traditional charcoal producers that have access and no access to credit with the aid of...
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Determinants of various modes of rural non-farm sector (RNFS) employment in SAT (semi-arid tropics) and Eastern regions of India : an empirical analysis
Drall, Anviksha; Mandal, Sabuj Kumar - In: Indian economic review : official journal of Delhi … 55 (2020) 2, pp. 253-282
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Determinants of urban households' livelihood diversification strategies in North Shewa Zone, Ethiopia
Emeru, Girma Mulugeta; Fikire, Abebaw Hailu; Beza, … - In: Cogent economics & finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-29
Livelihood diversification is important for urban development to end poverty and food insecurity problems. In Ethiopia …, urban livelihood diversification is quite low specifically in North Shewa Zone. Therefore, this study aims to identify the … determinants of livelihood diversification strategies for urban households in the North Shewa Zone. The data were collected through …
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A choice model-based analysis of diversification in organic and conventional farms
Bonfiglio, Andrea; Abitabile, Carla; Henke, Roberto - In: Bio-based and applied economics 11 (2022) 2, pp. 131-146
Diversification is a polymorphic strategy to increase agricultural income and reduce the risks deriving from the … lack of confirmation in this regard given the scarcity of studies that explicitly focus on diversification in organic farms … to the Italian case. Results suggest that on-farm diversification requires specific competences and adequate organization …
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Variable Input Allocation: Why Heterogeneity Matters?
Letort, Elodie; Carpentier, Alain - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010
The allocation of variable inputs among crops is a common problem in applied studies that use farm accountancy data. Standard farm accounting information is typically restricted to aggregate or whole-farm input expenditures; there are usually no details on how these expenditures are split among...
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AJAE Appendix: Supply Response to Counter-cyclical Payments and Base Acre Updating under Uncertainty: An Experimental Study
McIntosh, Christopher R.; Shogren, Jason F.; Dohlman, Erik - In: American Journal of Agricultural Economics Appendices 89 (2007) 4
The material contained herein is supplementary to the article named in the title and published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 89, Number 4, November 2007.
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Market power and subsidies in the Indonesian palm oil industry
Chalil, Diana - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2008
Cooking oil is known as an essential commodity in Indonesia. Having such an important role, the Indonesian government often interfered the cooking oil market to assure its price remain low. To do so, the government uses a subsidy policy as one of its instruments. A dynamic duopoly model is...
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THE IMPACT OF THE LDP ON CORN AND SOYBEAN BASIS IN MISSOURI
Parcell, Joseph L. - NCR-134 Conference on Applied Commodity Price Analysis, … - 2000
This study analyzed the effect of the Loan Deficiency Payment (LDP) program, established under the Federal Agriculture Improvement Reform (FAIR) act of 199, on corn and soybean basis in Missouri. Using daily corn and soybean basis data between 1993 and 1999 for multiple locations in Missouri,...
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Minnesota Farm Business Notes No. 195
Dowell, A. A.; Warrington, S. T.; Fenske, L. J. - Department of Applied Economics, College of … - 1939
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