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Da tropicalização da soja à vocação para o agronegócio: transformações sociotécnicas sobre a cadeia de uma commodity [PDF]
SociologiasResumo A ideia de que o Brasil possui uma inclinação natural e inerente – uma vocação –, não apenas para a agricultura, mas para o agronegócio, é um imaginário recorrentemente mobilizado por políticos, empresários, produtores rurais, representantes de ...
Vanessa Parreira Perin
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Modelling Risk for Commodities in Brazil: An Application for Live Cattle Spot and Futures Prices
Commodities, 2023 This study analyses a series of live cattle spot and futures prices from the Boi Gordo Index (BGI) in Brazil. The objective is to develop a model that best portrays this commodity’s behaviour to estimate futures prices more accurately.
Renata G. Alcoforado +3 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In recent decades, agriculture has become increasingly concentrated through horizontal mergers and acquisitions via corporate entities, and policy makers are concerned this will be exacerbated by the aging population of farm operators. To reduce market concentration in agriculture, many states have enacted policies to entice new prospective ...
Justin M. Ross +2 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the impact of geographical indication (GI) certification on the export performance of Turkish agri‐food products by analyzing both trade volume and unit value dynamics. Drawing on monthly data from 2000 to 2024 across 22 GI‐certified products, the research employs product‐level regressions, fixed‐effects panel models ...
Ihlas Sovbetov, Muge Burcu Ozdemir
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Why Didn't I Get a Payout? Understanding Farmer Choices, Index Insurance, and Basis Risk
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Index insurance, while heralded as a potential solution to alleviate poverty and food insecurity among agricultural households, has its own set of challenges, notably basis risk. Basis risk is the discrepancy between the insurance payout and losses incurred, posing a significant deterrent to the adoption of index insurance.
S. Lucille Blakeley +4 more
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Evaluation of Eco-Efficiency of Two Alternative Agricultural Biogas Plants
Applied Sciences, 2018 Implementation of the circular economy is one of the priorities of the European Union, and energy efficiency is one of its pillars. This article discusses an effective use of agri-food industry waste for the purposes of waste-to-energy in biogas plants ...
Magdalena Muradin +2 more
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Understanding Egg Price Volatility and Policy Implications in the U.S. With Machine Learning
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Eggs are an inexpensive and sustainable source of proteins, but volatility in the U.S. egg prices has intensified in recent years, raising concerns over food affordability and market stability. This study examines the drivers of U.S. egg price dynamics over 2004–2025 using a two‐stage framework that combines LASSO‐based variable selection with
Xuemei Zhao +3 more
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A Systemic Functional Study on the Conversational Structure of an Indonesian Spontaneous Dialogue
English Review: Journal of English Education, 2015 Spontaneous dialogue is an example of spoken text in which its potential can be observed through its conversational structure. As an attempt to interpret the language in spoken text, the paper investigates a spontaneous dialogue in Bahasa Indonesia ...
Susanto
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Assessing Household Welfare in Response to Rising Food Prices in The Gambia
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how rising food prices affected household welfare in The Gambia using nationally representative data from the 2015/16 Integrated Household Survey (IHS‐3). The analysis reflects household consumption behavior and market conditions prevailing during that period and provides a structural benchmark for understanding ...
Roger Vorsah +3 more
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Shock freezing of edible honeysuckle berries for obtaining biologically active dietary ingredients [PDF]
BIO Web of ConferencesEdible honeysuckle berries are a unique source of the most important biologically active substances for human beings. Shock freezing of these berries will provide the food industry with raw materials for enriching many products with physiologically ...
Blinnikova Olga +4 more
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