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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Farmers markets provide a direct‐to‐consumer marketing path for farmers and small businesses, facilitating customer discovery and product refinement. This paper explores farmers markets as a business incubator, with a focus on beginning vendors and resilience to a shock, namely, COVID‐19 market restrictions.
Mallory L. Rahe +2 more
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Performance Analysis of Credit Unions in Lithuania
Lithuanian Journal of Statistics, 2015 The paper deals with the assessment of the performance of Lithuanian credit unions applying a cluster analysismethod, in particular the Probit regression model, substantiates their relevance and reliability for the evaluation of the resultsobtained ...
Vytautas Kėdaitis, Justina Girčytė
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The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor +3 more
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The estimation of the impact of environmental factors on the credit unions` activities [PDF]
Marketing i Menedžment Innovacij, 2011 The article grounds the meaningfulness of the external environment factors, which must be taken into account in the process of credit unions activity research.
M.D. Muzhylivskii
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Alternative Policy Designs to Help Farmers Select Profitable Conservation Practices
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Voluntary private carbon initiatives (VPCIs) promote the implementation of agricultural conservation practices that mitigate emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) via financial incentives to participating farmers. Simultaneously, an array of public policies supports the adoption of conservation practices through technical and financial ...
Oranuch Wongpiyabovorn +1 more
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Cost‐Benefit Analysis of the European Union Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism in Fertilizer Trade
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM), launching 2026, will charge EU importers for embedded carbon emissions, aiming to reduce emissions but raising import costs. Shifts in demand following implementation may reduce carbon emissions, but importers will bear the cost of increased prices.
Natalie Crisci +3 more
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Survival and failure of Brazilian credit unions: an analysis of corporate governance characteristics
Revista de Gestão e Organizações Cooperativas, 2020 We aim in this paper to understand the link between corporate governance characteristics and the discontinuity of Brazilian credit unions, investigating if these characteristics affect their strategy of exiting the market.
Bruno José Canassa +2 more
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Does Participating in Agricultural Global Value Chains Promote Agricultural Growth?
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between GVC participation and agricultural value‐added growth in 43 countries over the period 1995–2022. In contrast to prior literature, we disaggregate the agricultural sector into four sub‐sectors namely crop cultivation, animal production, forestry and fishing.
Taner Turan +2 more
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A risk study of brazilian credit unions based on accounting beta
Revista Catarinense da Ciência Contábil, 2020 Credit unions are essential for many Brazilian municipalities with no access to bank credit. It is important to analyze how the PEARLS system's accounting indicators are related to the risk of cooperatives, directly impacting the development of deprived ...
Igor Costa Teixeira +2 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using survey and discrete choice experiment data, we examined US specialty crop growers' preferences for marketing contract attributes in the context of emerging blockchain‐based technologies and expanding traceability initiatives. Results show that farmers preferred traditional written contracts but might be willing to accept digital ...
Elizabeth Canales +3 more
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