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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The cocoa‐chocolate value chain faces significant environmental and social challenges, driving firms to adopt sustainability strategies ranging from individual practices to third‐party certifications. This study investigates the factors associated with these strategies by analyzing 304 cocoa‐chocolate companies using firm‐level data from the ...
Stella Marschner +3 more
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Renewable Energy Development and Implications to Agricultural Viability [PDF]
Food and energy security have increasingly acquired key natural resource policy focus. As alternative energy solutions become more land intensive, the potential implication to the agricultural sector becomes of policy interest.
Adelaja, Adesoji O., Hailu, Yohannes G.
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT EU member states have exhibited varying rates of apple production growth. Technical efficiency (TE) estimation is suitable for identifying best‐practice farm performance. This study examined whether the development of the apple sector in Germany, Italy, and Poland was influenced by production efficiency, access to technology, as well as ...
Anika Muder, Jakub Staniszewski
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Land Leasing and Land Sale as an Infrastructure Financing Option [PDF]
, 2007 Municipal land sales provide one option for financing urban infrastructure investment. In countries where land is owned by the public sector, land is by far the most valuable asset on the municipal balance sheet. Selling land or long-term leasing rights to land use while investing the proceeds in infrastructure facilities can be viewed as a type of ...
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Moral hazard and the division of labor in agricultural land leases [PDF]
land lease contracts, moral hazard, contract duration, division of labor, Land Economics/Use,
Doye, Damona G. +3 more
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How to Achieve Efficient Land Use under Private Land Ownership - Overcoming a Global Obstacle Overlooked by Theodore W. Schultz and Albert O. Hirschman [PDF]
, 2003 This paper challenges Nobel laureate Schultz’s assertions: small farmers are rational; low income countries saddled with traditional agriculture have not the problem of many farmers leaving agriculture for nonfarm jobs; part-time farming is efficient ...
Zhou, Jian-Ming
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor +3 more
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Pricing Capital Under Mandatory Unbundling and Facilities Sharing [PDF]
The regulation of telecommunications, railroads, and other network industries has been based on mandatory unbundling and facilities sharing - entrants have the option to lease part or all of incumbents' facilities if and when they desire, at rates ...
Robert S. Pindyck
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An Overview of Job Quality and Discretionary Economic Development Subsidies in New York City [PDF]
, 2011 Every year, New York City spends well over $2 billion through a variety of programs in the name of economic development and job creation. This policy brief outlines the mix of tools the New York City Industrial Development Agency uses to subsidize ...
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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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