"How do we get it to the mill?" A study on bulking arrangements that enable sourcing from smallholders in the Ugandan vegetable oil chain [PDF]
, 2010 Risk reduction and transaction costs are often used to explain contracting in the U.S. hog industry with little empirical support. Using a unified conceptual framework that draws from risk behavior and transaction cost theories, in combination with ...
Opeero, Moses, Ton, G., Vellema, S.
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Assessment of socio-economic configuration of value chains : a proposed analysis framework to facilitate integration of small rural producers with global agribusiness [PDF]
, 2017 Value chain analysis is an important tool to assess and enhance the performance of agribusiness. This paper analyzes the empirical application of a conceptual framework known as the Rural Web to evaluate the socio-economic complexity of a specific ...
Arato Garza, Miguel Jaime +3 more
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, 2013 Sovereign territory was bought and sold throughout much of American history, and there are good reasons to think that an interstate market for borders could help solve many contemporary economic and political problems. But no such market currently exists.
Blocher, Joseph
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Managing inequality: the political ecology of a small-scale fishery, Mweru-Luapula, Zambia [PDF]
, 2013 This paper starts from the perspective on resource management approaches as based upon a body of environmental knowledge. By analysing fisheries management in Mweru-Luapula, Zambia, we argue that this body of environmental knowledge has (i) remained ...
Verelst, Bram
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From Workers to Owners: Survey Evidence on the Impact of Property Rights Reforms on Small Farmers in Two Regions in Romania [PDF]
, 2008 In Romania, the 1991 Land Reform marked the beginning of a series of transformations in the ownership structure and the production system in agriculture.
Kim, Annette +1 more
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UK domestic energy contracts, the 28 day rule, and experience in Sweden [PDF]
, 2004 In the UK, domestic customers must be able to terminate energy contracts at 28 days notice. This has been seen as a transitional protection for customers and for competition.
Littlechild, Stephen C.
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Auctions and trading in energy markets -- an economic analysis [PDF]
, 2004 Auctions and trading in energy markets -- an economic ...
McDaniel, Tanga, Newbery, David
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Of Trailers and Jet Skis: Is the Case Law on Article 34 TFEU Hurtling in a New Direction? [PDF]
, 2006 The provision which is the focus of this Article is article 34 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union ( TFEU or Treaty ) (formerly article 28 EC).
Oliver, Peter
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Aging and Cancer, EarlyView.This study underscores the significant influence of frailty and vitality on the subjective health experience of older cancer survivors with acceptance and control emerging as salient mediators. These findings affirm the conceptual and empirical robustness of the model highlighting its potential utility in shaping future interventions for older cancer ...
Damien S. E. Broekharst +4 more
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Would You Like that iPhone Locked or Unlocked?: Reconciling Apple's Anticircumvention Measures with the DMCA [PDF]
, 2008 When Apple's iPhone first hit the stores it was an epochal media event.2 Apple, long a leader in high-end computers and personal electronics, was poised to make its entry into a highly-competitive market with a new mobile phone that promised ...
Corbett, Daniel J.
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