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Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

In Pursuit of Samuelson for Commodity Futures: How to Parameterize and Calibrate the Term Structure of Volatilities

open access: yesCommodities
The phenomenon of rising forward price volatility, both historical and implied, as maturity approaches is referred to as the Samuelson effect or maturity effect.
Roza Galeeva
doaj   +1 more source

How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of COVID-19-Related Mobility Changes on the Mango Market: A Case Study of Tokyo, Japan

open access: yesCommodities
This study investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Tokyo mango market by combining transaction data from the Ota Fruit Market with Google Mobility indices. In Japan, mangoes are regarded as a luxury fruit, largely dependent on imports and
Md Shahed Almi Sajid, Kentaka Aruga
doaj   +1 more source

Drivers of Farmers' Contract Compliance Behavior: Evidence From a Case Study of Dangote Tomato Processing Plant in Northern Nigeria

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contract farming is a viable strategy agribusinesses rely on to strengthen coordination across actors in the value chain. However, low contract compliance remains a significant setback to agribusinesses' contract performance in low‐ and middle‐income country context.
Umar Shehu Umar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trends and Challenges in Gum Arabic Markets in Key Producing Countries in Africa (Sudan, Chad, Nigeria, and Senegal)

open access: yesCommodities
Gum arabic production is a key source of income for communities in several African countries. Despite this, producing nations capture only a small share of the market value due to weak domestic markets, low price incentives, and limited value-added ...
Moammar Dayoub
doaj   +1 more source

Characterizing the Vickrey Combinatorial Auction by Induction [PDF]

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This note studies the allocation of heterogeneous commodities to agents whose private values for combinations of these commodities are monotonic by inclusion.
Chew Soo Hong, Shigehiro Serizawa
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Agricultural Diversification at the Margin. Strategies and Determinants in Italian Mountain and Remote Areas

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the convergence in on‐farm diversification strategies of agricultural holdings, between remote areas and more central ones. Using Italian farm‐level data, we explore the determinants of diversification strategies across farms.
Gianluca Grilli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Revisiting Boi Gordo Index Futures: Long-Run Daily Data, Structural Breaks, and a Comparative Evaluation of Classical and Machine Learning Time-Series Models

open access: yesCommodities
We study one of the world’s largest cattle markets by revisiting and extending previous work on the forecasting of Brazil’s Boi Gordo Index (BGI). Using an updated daily dataset (July 2006–September 2025, inflation-adjusted), we evaluate classical and ...
Renata G. Alcoforado   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The relative volatility of commodity prices : a reappraisal [PDF]

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This paper studies the volatility of commodity prices on the basis of a large dataset of monthly prices observed in international trade data from the United States over the period 2002 to 2011.
Arezki, Rabah   +2 more
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