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Livestock Tango: U.S. and Latin America Dance Together, but Who Will Lead?

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the competitiveness between Latin American and U.S. livestock and meat sectors. We employ a computable general equilibrium modeling framework to evaluate two scenarios: coordinated improvements in Latin American productivity, transport efficiency, and market access (Scenario I), and the minimum productivity gains required ...
Taís C. Menezes, Amanda M. Countryman, Dustin L. Pendell   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Adapting to Changing Rainfall and Developing Off‐Farm Employment: Implications for the Adoption of Direct Seeding in Rice Production

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rice is the main staple food for more than half of the world's population and the income from rice is an essential source for livelihoods of millions of households. We examine whether direct seed in rice production is an adaptation of rice farmers to rainfall changes and farm labor scarcity.
Manh Hung Do
wiley   +1 more source

Economic Viability of Photovoltaic Systems Providing Frequency Containment Reserve

Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.
This article investigates the feasibility of photovoltaic (PV) systems providing frequency containment reserve (FCR) in the Netherlands. The economic analysis demonstrates that a PV plant can profitably participate in FCR without battery storage by maintaining an active power reserve.
Emil Petkovski, Mari S. Bogen, Theo Bosma, Marcel Eijgelaar   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Generic Framework for Managing Schedule and Cost Risks of Construction Activities Using PERT and the EV Technique

Buildings
Construction projects are complexity, multidisciplinary, have thousands of activities and details, and involve many participants. This intricate and fragmented nature of construction projects coupled with tight budgets and limited resources makes them ...
Essam Zaneldin, Waleed Ahmed
doaj   +1 more source

Volatility analysis and forecasting of vegetable prices using an ARMA‐GARCH model: An application of the CF filter and seasonal adjustment method to Korean green onions

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract The vegetable market experiences significant price fluctuations due to the complex interplay of trend, cyclical, seasonal, and irregular factors. This study takes Korean green onions as an example and employs the Christiano–Fitzgerald filter and the CensusX‐13 seasonal adjustment methods to decompose its price into four components: trend ...
Yiyang Qiao, Byeong‐il Ahn
wiley   +1 more source

Analisa Earned Value Pada Proyek Pembangunan Vimala Hills Villa & Resort Bogor

Jurnal Teknik ITS, 2015
Proyek Pembangunan Vimala Hills Villa & Resort Bogor dituntut untuk selesai tepat waktu agar kepercayaan konsumen tetap terjaga. Untuk mencapai hal itu dibutuhkan suatu pengendalian yang harus diketahui terlebih dahulu melalui kinerja proyek yang ...
Yomelda Yomelda, Christiono Utomo
doaj  

Swedish farmers' approval of nudges

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Interest in the use of behavioral policy approaches, such as nudges, has strongly increased over the past years, including in the domains of food, agricultural and environmental policies. While the approval of nudges among the general public has been studied extensively, we know little about the attitude of farmers toward nudging. Farmers may (
Liesbeth Colen, Leon Englberger, Jens Rommel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Usefulness and fields of the application of the Earned Value Management in the implementation of construction projects

Budownictwo i Architektura, 2014
The Earned Value Method allows the prediction of future values of the total cost and duration of the construction project realization, and also it allows the early detection of the collisions between the schedule and the construction project budget.
Agnieszka Dziadosz, Oleg Kapliński, Mariusz Rejment   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Determinants of local food producer participation in state‐sponsored marketing programs: Evidence from Missouri

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines producer participation choices considering a variety of potential benefits linked to state‐sponsored marketing programs, using a real choice dataset of farmers in Missouri. Multinomial logit models are employed to predict determinants of farmer enrollment in three tiers of the Missouri Grown local food marketing program ...
Lan Tran, Ye Su, Laura McCann
wiley   +1 more source

Integrated earned value analysis and their impact on project success

International Journal of Advanced Engineering, Sciences and Applications, 2020
The project management system has many tools and techniques to control projects' main elements schedule, cost, quality, risk, communications and procurements to attain project success and high performance. Earned value analysis (EVA) is the most effective tool to measure project performance which is widely used by many organisations such as Defence ...
Fatemeh Nouban, Nour Alijl, Mohammad Tawalbeh   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources