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Competitive storage and commodity price dynamics [PDF]
, 1996 By buying cheap and selling dear, risk-neutral commodity speculators can smooth commodity prices and induce serial dependence in price even when none would exist under a simple process of supply and demand.
Laroque, G., Deaton, A.
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AgriFood: Journal of Agricultural Products for Food, EarlyView.Heavy metal pollution reduces soil health and threatens food safety by entering plants; however, the use of nanoparticles, biofertilizers, and organic fertilizers such as biochar offers a promising strategy for improvement and sustainable agriculture. ABSTRACT Heavy metal (HM) pollution, resulting from human activities such as mining and the excessive ...
Sina Siavash Moghaddam +4 more
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Commodity as a science and its development in Europe
, 2014 Herbals and pharmacopoeia written by medieval monks in monasteries may be regarded as early roots for commodity science, describing carefully pharmaceutical drugs, their healing and toxic effects and falsifications.
Hlusova, Anastasia
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Agribusiness, 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
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Commodity Currencies and the Real Exchange Rate [PDF]
This paper examines whether the real exchange rates of commodity-exporting countries and the real prices of their commodity exports move together over time.
Ratna Sahay +2 more
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How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency
Agribusiness, 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
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BMJ, 2006 Referral management centres have been set up in an attempt to control the flow of patients from generalist to specialist services.1 Those proposing and creating such centres seem to view a referral as a simple administrative transaction, whereas those working in primary care know that a successful referral is a much more complex and challenging ...
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Commodity Currencies and Currency Commodities [PDF]
There is a large literature on the influence of commodity prices on the currencies of countries with a large commodity-based export sector such as Australia, New Zealand and Canada (“commodity currencies”).
Renee Fry, Kenneth W. Clements
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Agribusiness, 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
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Agribusiness, 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
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