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MFP and CFAP Official Announcement and Pre‐Official Announcement Effects on the Corn and Soybean Futures Market

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the official announcement effect of the Market Facilitation Program (MFP) and the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) on the corn and soybean futures market. Using a permutation test and a 2‐stage GLS model, we find no significant official announcement effect.
Zhining Sun, Ani L. Katchova, Anil K. Giri, Dipak Subedi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Changes in Alcohol Retail Laws and Foot Traffic at Liquor Stores

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study how expanding alcohol availability at grocery and convenience stores affects consumer traffic in liquor stores by leveraging recent changes in state‐level alcohol distribution laws in a difference‐in‐difference quasi‐experimental design.
Nathan Palardy, Marco Costanigro, Joshua Berning, Jude Bayham   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Livelihood diversification and coping strategies: evidence from small-scale fish farmers in Ghana

Cogent Social Sciences
The study assessed livelihood diversification and coping strategies among small-scale fish farmers in the Nzema East Municipality, Ghana. Multistage sampling techniques comprising purposive sampling and snowball sampling were adopted to sample 200 fish ...
Samuel Afotey Anang, Kwasi Otchere-Peprah, Daniel Aidoo-Mensah, Nicholas Oppong Mensah, Tekuni Nakuja, Dominic Boateng-Gyambiby   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Climate Change Agricultural Comparative Advantage and the US Trade Balance

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Current science indicates that warming and elevated atmospheric CO2 will have ambiguous results for crop productivity depending on crop type and geographic location, whereas increased heat stress makes livestock and human labor less productive.
Elizabeth A. Fraysse, Thomas W. Hertel, Roman Keeney   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of adopting improved Arabica varieties on the livelihood of organic coffee producers’ of Ethiopia: Continuous treatment approach

Cogent Food & Agriculture
The study evaluated the impact of adopting improved coffee Arabica on organic coffee producers’ households’ livelihoods by employing data obtained from 120 coffee producer households in the Gedeo zone.
Negussie Zeray Gebru, Tasew Tadesse, Wajana Wae   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Selected Reliable Indicators of Sustainable Land Management (SLM) in the European Union

Visegrad Journal on Bioeconomy and Sustainable Development, 2017
The concept of sustainability and the feasibility options have been discussed in specialized literature sources for about three decades only. Sustainable development has several definitions; it is defined both in narrow and wider sense. The definition of
Tóth-Naár Zsuzsanna, Naár Tamás Antal, Sőreg Ádám Pál, Vinogradov Sergey   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Did the Indian Green Revolution Change the Farm Size–Productivity Relationship?

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine the relationship between farm size and productivity during India's Green Revolution, a period of rapid technological transformation. Using a unique panel of over 5000 Indian farm households that spans the Green Revolution (1971–1999), we show that the classic (linear) inverse farm size–productivity relationship gradually evolved ...
Rabail Chandio, Leah E. M. Bevis
wiley   +1 more source

An estimate of the willingness to pay for treated wastewater for irrigation in Oman

Journal of Agricultural and Marine Sciences, 2016
The volume of Treated Wastewater (TW) produced in Oman is increasing, due to increased connection of houses to the sewage network and increased construction of wastewater treatment plants.
Slim Zekri, Samiha Al Harthi, Hemesiri Kotagama, Shekar Bose   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Temperature and Farm Labor in Nigeria

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We estimate the impact of temperature shocks on the composition of farm labor in rural Nigeria using a nationally representative household panel survey. Leveraging plausibly exogenous year‐to‐year variation in growing season temperatures, we find that warmer temperatures significantly alter farm labor composition, prompting a substantial shift
Andu Berha
wiley   +1 more source

La nouvelle économie des ressources et les marches de l'eau : une perspective idéologique ?

VertigO, 2004
TheNew Resource Economics perceives market allocation as a universal solution to resource depletion. The authors of this school are arguing for of a systematic implementation of private property rights concerning the allocation of renewable natural ...
Olivier Petit
doaj   +1 more source