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Budgetary allocation to agriculture in South Africa: an empirical review from 1994 to 2014 [PDF]
Problems and Perspectives in Management, 2016 The agricultural sector is no doubt one of the most important sectors in sub-Saharan Africa, considering its prime place as a livelihood source and employer of the vast majority of residents, especially those in rural areas. In South Africa, for instance,
Isaac B. Oluwatayo, Stephen M. Mantsho
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Understanding how policy instruments with overlapping goals interact is crucial for leveraging their synergies. This study explores the mechanisms for regional nature parks (a form of protected areas that impose no restrictions on agriculture) to enhance the adoption of biodiversity‐conserving agri‐environment schemes (AES) in Switzerland ...
Yanbing Wang +3 more
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Production, Information Costs, and Economic Organization
IEEE Engineering Management Review, 1975 Abstract The mark of a capitalistic society is that resources are owned and allocated by such nongovernmental organizations as firms, households, and markets. Resource owners increase productivity through cooperative specialization and this leads to the demand for economic organizations which facilitate co-operation.
Alchian, Armen A, Demsetz, Harold
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Intermediate inputs and economic productivity [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2013 Many models of economic growth exclude materials, energy and other intermediate inputs from the production function. Growing environmental pressures and resource prices suggest that this may be increasingly inappropriate. This paper explores the relationship between intermediate input intensity, productivity and national accounts using a panel dataset ...
Simon Baptist, Cameron Hepburn
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Markets Mitigate Land‐Use Competition From Energy Crops and Increase Farm Revenues
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Meeting the US Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge target of 35 billion gal annually by 2050 will require an estimated 380 million–700 million dry tons of agricultural biomass feedstock. This study evaluates the implications of large‐scale biomass production for land use, crop production, and market outcomes under mature market ...
Daniel G. De La Torre Ugarte +2 more
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Production Networks and Economic Policy
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019 Abstract In this paper, we show how to combine data on input–output tables and recent insights from the theory of production networks in order to inform policy. We first describe the information contained in input–output tables compiled by statistical agencies, and show how to derive relevant statistics of production networks.
Grassi, Basile, Sauvagnat, Julien
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Identifying the Impact of Weather Variation on Crop Yield in the Northern Plains [PDF]
weather, production, crop yield, agriculture, economics, Crop Production/Industries, Land Economics/Use, Production Economics, Productivity Analysis, Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,
Jiang, Yong, Koo, Won W.
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amid rising food and fertilizer prices, understanding farmers' policy preferences is critical for effective crisis response. We use best‐worst scaling experiment to assess Kenyan mobile‐owning crop farmers' preferences for government support under high and normal price scenarios.
Mywish K. Maredia +4 more
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International Journal of Economic Plants, 2020 The present study was conducted at experimental farm of Department of Seed Science and Technology, Dr. Y. S. Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, Solan (H.P.) during the years 2017-18 and 2018-19 under priming and pelleting in ...
Pramod Sharma +2 more
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‘Tenderstem’ Broccoli for Export Markets: an Analysis Study on the AgroFood Company [PDF]
Decision case, horticulture, agriculture economics, broccoli production, protected vegetable production, Agricultural Finance, Crop Production/Industries, Production Economics,
El-Sayed, Sayed F. +3 more
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