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Does Contract Farming Reduce Pesticide Use? Panel Data Evidence From Smallholder Farmers in China

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The inappropriate and excessive use of pesticides poses a major threat to human and ecosystem health in the agri‐food sector. While existing studies have examined the potential of contract farming to address this issue, most have focused on large‐scale farms and relied on small or transactional datasets, often leaving the role of crop‐specific
Zhihui Liang, Shan Jin, Matthew Gorton
wiley   +1 more source

Behavioural macroeconomics: theory and policy

open access: yes, 2019
Modern macroeconomics has been based on the paradigm of the rational individual capable of understanding the complexity of the world. This has created a very shallow theory of the business cycle in which nothing happens in the macroeconomy unless shocks ...
De Grauwe, Paul, Ji, Yuemei
core   +2 more sources

What factors truly drive crop virtual water trade? A systematic literature review

open access: yesAgricultural and Food Economics
This study presents a systematic review of 73 articles on agricultural virtual water trade (AVWT) using the PRISMA guidelines, focussing on the key themes and factors that shape research in this area.
Ayomide Hannah Igbaroola   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

New Macroeconomics and Credibility Analysis [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper gives a general view of the new macroeconomics: the new Keynesian macroeconomics, the real business cycle models and the analysis of credibility of monetary policy.
Patricia Bonini
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Food Security Strategy, Macroeconomic Dynamics and Food Import Sensitivity in Qatar

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Qatar has limited agricultural land and water resources and therefore remains highly dependent on food imports. This structural dependency makes Qatar vulnerable to external shocks such as the recent Gulf crisis, threatening food security and disrupting global supply chains. In response to previous shocks, Qatar started implementing a National
Hansini Ranjan   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Horizontal integration, production systems and technical efficiency in pork production: evidence from Polish pig farms

open access: yesAgricultural and Food Economics
Pork production in Poland has declined sharply despite its important role in the EU. This study assesses whether horizontal integration via producer groups improves farm efficiency, using 2016–2023 panel data for Polish pig producers.
Łukasz Kryszak   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

After the bust: The outlook for macroeconomics and Macroeconomic policy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
The current economic crisis offers an historic opportunity for change. The depth of the crisis means there will likely be a policy turn in a Keynesian and even Post Keynesian direction. However, there are profound political, intellectual and sociological obstacles blocking change in underlying economic thinking.
openaire   +2 more sources

Domestic and External Drivers of Brazilian Pork Price Volatility Under Russian Trade Policies

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how Russian trade policies and domestic factors influence the volatility of Brazilian live swine prices from 2004 to 2019. We employ a DCC‐MGARCH framework, along with volatility impulse‐response functions and the connectedness approach, to analyze time‐varying co‐movement and dynamic volatility spillovers across pork ...
Gabriel Rosero   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Agricultural Land Price Convergence: Evidence from Polish Provinces

open access: yesAgriculture, 2020
This research deals with the problem of agricultural land market efficiency using the spatial market integration concept as well as the present value (PV) model.
Mateusz Tomal, Agata Gumieniak
doaj   +1 more source

Lucas on the Lucasian transformation of macroeconomics: an assessment [PDF]

open access: yes
Robert Lucas is rightfully credited with having changed the course of macroeconomic theory. The aim of this paper is to document his transformation from a potential contributor to Keynesian macroeconomics to the master builder of an alternative paradigm,
Michel DE VROEY
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