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Location, School Characteristics, and the Cost of School Meals

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2012
The U.S. Department of Agriculture reimburses schools for meals provided to students participating in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs. Reimbursement amounts are based on national average estimated costs of meal production.
Michael Ollinger, Katherine L. Ralston, Joanne F. Guthrie   +2 more
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Charting the Path to Increased Oil Palm Output in Ghana Beyond Area Expansion: Technology or Managerial Capacity — Which Leads the Way?

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, Francis Tsiboe, Ayobami Adetoyinbo, Jacob Ankamah   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

How to assess future agricultural performance under climate change? A case-study on the Veneto region

Agricultural and Food Economics, 2019
In this paper, we have constructed and tested a simple methodology for assessing and predicting climate change effects on agricultural yields. The methodology follows two steps.
Laura Onofri, Federica Bianchin, Vasco Boatto   +2 more
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Food inflation pass‐through from agricultural imports in a small open economy

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper develops a new framework for quantifying cost pass‐through in a small open economy by estimating firm‐level markup responses to agricultural import price shocks. We show theoretically that markup adjustments depend on firms' reliance on imported inputs and demand curvature, generating heterogeneous inflationary effects across firm ...
Minseong Kang, Seungki Lee
wiley   +1 more source

Technical efficiency in electricity generation - the impact of smallness and isolation of island economies [PDF]

, 2004
Technical efficiency in electricity generation - the impact of smallness and isolation of island ...
Domah, Preetum
core   +1 more source

Green Innovation and Firm Efficiency: The Role of Institutional Quality in Italian High‐Tech Manufacturing Sectors

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The aim of this research is to verify whether institutional quality affects the relationship between green innovation and firm efficiency within the high‐tech manufacturing sectors. To estimate jointly the parameters of a stochastic frontier and the coefficients of a model explaining technical inefficiency, we employed the one‐step estimation ...
Mariarosaria Agostino, Sandro Rondinella, Marianna Succurro   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Economias de escala na produção de frangos de corte no Brasil

Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural, 2005
Neste trabalho, estima-se os parâmetros de uma função de custos translog, que se mostrou adequada para representar a estrutura de custos do setor de produção de frangos de corte no Brasil.
Luís Alberto Ferreira Garcia, Joaquim Bento de Souza Ferreira Filho   +1 more
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Assessing Eco‐Efficiency in Municipal Solid Waste Management Integrating Heterogeneity: A Latent Class Stochastic Frontier Analysis

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The measurement of eco‐efficiency in the municipal solid waste (MSW) sector has garnered significant attention due to the substantial environmental impacts of unsustainable MSW management and the high operational costs associated with public service provision.
Ramon Sala‐Garrido, Alexandros Maziotis, Maria Molinos‐Senante   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analyze the Relationships Between Inputs and Scale Economies in Potato Production in Ardabil Province [PDF]

Journal of Agricultural Science and Sustainable Production, 2015
Potato is one of the agriculture important products in Ardebil province that about 24 thousand hectares of land in this province allocated to this product. Based on available evidence, consumption of inputs in the production process in this region is not
Kh Alefi, Gh Dashti, Sh Khorrami
doaj  

Technical efficiency and its determinants in China's hog production

Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 2015
China's hog production is undergoing a great transformation due to the soaring demand and changing raising system. Regarding the essential role of pork in Chinese diet, a systematic analysis on the productivity and efficiency of hog production can ...
Xu TIAN, Fei-fei SUN, Ying-heng ZHOU
doaj   +1 more source