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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers are reverting to traditional production methods due to the high opportunity costs and unintended consequences of new technologies. This study focuses on row planting technology, which is labor‐intensive and slow without mechanized operations.
Emmanuel Tetteh Jumpah +4 more
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Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Innovation is a presumed channel through which finance affects productivity, yet there is limited research testing the relationship between finance and innovation in the food manufacturing sector. The purpose of the paper is to explore the determinants (e.g., financing, R&D, firm size, expenditure on innovation) of the adoption of innovation ...
Getu Hailu, Deepananda Herath
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Agronomía Colombiana, 2019 Based on a double-phase methodology (grouping by cluster method and costing) the costs of three activities of cacao establishment and annual management in San Vicente de Chucuri and El Carmen de Chucuri (Santander, Colombia) were structured. The grouping
Andrés Zabala +3 more
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Who Are the Consumers of European Farmers' Markets? A Cross‐Country Analysis
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT With substantial growth in the number of farmers' markets (FMs) in developed countries, the number of consumers visiting FMs is also increasing. This study comparatively assesses the consumers of FMs in three European countries where FMs traditionally play a distinctive role in food supply chains.
Áron Török +6 more
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Why intervention rarely works [PDF]
Foreign-exchange-market intervention is generally ineffective when undertaken independent of monetary policy. But when undertaken as a goal of monetary policy, exchange-rate management can compromise price stability. This Economic Commentary explains the
Owen F. Humpage, William P. Osterberg
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Testing the Marketing Performance of German Wheat Farmers
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper analyses the marketing performance of wheat farmers in Germany. Wheat sales data from 465 individual farms over a 12‐year period are used to test against different market benchmarks. Market benchmarks are constructed by simulating passive trading agents using regional wheat prices.
Franziska Potts, Jens‐Peter Loy
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Jurisprudential Analysis of Applying Credit Default Swap and Credit-Linked Note in Credit Risk Management of Banks [PDF]
تحقیقات مالی اسلامی (پیوسته), 2012 Given the importance of credit risk in the banking system, banks have always paid special attention to credit risk management and have used different tools to manage it. Using credit derivatives, especially "credit default swap" and "credit-linked note",
Rasool Khansari +2 more
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Some Lessons of Monetary Management
Credit and Capital Markets – Kredit und Kapital, 1989 Einige Lehren über geldpolitisches Management Viele Zentralnotenbanken verlassen sich in ihren diskretionären, geldpolitischen Entscheidungen auf Prognosen. Eine Reihe neuerer Forschungsarbeiten legt nahe, daß eine adaptive Regel, die verfügbare Daten ausnutzt, die Effizienz der Politik vergrößert, indem sie die Prognostizierbarkeit der politischen ...
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Choosing Monetary Arrangements for the 21st Century: Problems of a Small Economy [PDF]
The traditional monetary arrangement, in which a country uses and manages a distinct money, has several strong advantages, but countries have increasingly been adopting other arrangements: currency unions, use of another country's currency, and currency ...
John Williamson
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Agricultural soils offer great potential for carbon sequestration through humus formation. One way to motivate farmers to build up humus is through humus programs. These are still at an early stage of development, poorly explored, and the number of participating farmers is low. Our aim is to explain the heterogeneity of farmers' willingness to
Julia B. Block +2 more
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