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| Aling, James N.. |
| The changing political economy and present structure and performance of the commercial agricultural sector in South Africa necessitates change. An institutional approach is adopted to review the origin of past and present institutions and organizations in the commercial sector. Private based reform initiatives are focused upon as one of the possible processes through reform in the sector can be undertaken. The private based reform initiatives undertaken in the sugar sub sector are analyzed from a situation, structure and performance perspective in attempt to explain the origins and outcomes of these initiatives. Successful lessons from the case study are examined with two other private based reform initiatives, namely sharecropping and employee share... |
| Tipo: Thesis or Dissertation |
Palavras-chave: Institutional and Behavioral Economics. |
| Ano: 1991 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/11073 |
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| Ma, Shan. |
| Agriculture, an ecosystem transformed by humans for the purpose of supplying food, fiber and biofuel, can provide people a host of benefits, or ecosystem services (ES). While markets exist for farm products, many of today’s central agro-environmental policy concerns are related to ES that lack complete markets, such as regulating ES and recreational, aesthetic and cultural ES. Valuation of non-marketed ES linked to agriculture is needed to improve their utilization and efficient provision. Some ES that facilitate agricultural production or provide natural amenities can be perceived by people through various natural resources and landscapes on farmlands and surrounding areas. One indirect way to measure the value of ES is via what people pay for the lands... |
| Tipo: Thesis or Dissertation |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural land; Hedonic; Ecosystem services; Sales price; Appraisal value; GIS.; Environmental Economics and Policy; Q24; Q51; Q57.. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/59321 |
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| Maamun, Muhamad Yusuf. |
| Although most of the rice area in Indonesia is still prepared manually, since the early 1980s the government has promoted tractors for land preparation through subsidized loans. This has increased capital investment in agriculture; and for the farmers, the cost of owning and operating tractor has become an important part of farm costs. By the late 1980s, a rapid increase in the number of tractors intensified competition, reducing capacity utilization below an economically viable level. Thus, many tractor owners defaulted on their loans. This study investigates the financial profitability of tractor ownership in South Sulawesi, using a computer spreadsheet. The analysis uses input and output data (technical coefficient) collected by the Consequences of... |
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Palavras-chave: Agricultural Finance; Farm Management. |
| Ano: 1991 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/11212 |
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| Lee, Wun-Chi. |
| Taiwan is located in the subtropical area of the Far East. With the benefit of suitable weather, average temperature just under 71 F in the north and nearly 76 F in the south, and with the yearly precipitation around 75 inches, rice has been the self sufficient staff crop in Taiwan. Even in the early eighteenth century, Taiwan exported rice to support the supply in Mainland China. Rice is a necessity for Taiwanese. A sufficient supply and stabilization of its price are relevant to the whole economy and society. Because of the development of industry and economic growth, a lot of cultivated land has been transferred from rice production to industrial or architectural utilization under the principle of comparative advantage since 1958. The benefit per... |
| Tipo: Thesis or Dissertation |
Palavras-chave: Crop Production/Industries; Demand and Price Analysis. |
| Ano: 1977 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/11000 |
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| Mollers, Judith. |
| Problem and objectives. Non-farm rural diversification is gaining prominence in the debate on rural development since the end of the 1990s. The expansion of non-farm employment and the diversification of incomes are important policy objectives because they offer a solution to the employment and structural problems of a shrinking agricultural sector. Development policies focusing on the rural non-farm sector aim at offering employment options and reducing urban migration. They can contribute to poverty reduction, economic growth and a more equal income distribution. This research is based on a household survey including 240 randomly selected rural households in the regions of Gorenjska and Pomurska in Slovenia as well as Gevgelija and Kumanovo in Macedonia.... |
| Tipo: Thesis or Dissertation |
Palavras-chave: Community/Rural/Urban Development; Consumer/Household Economics; Political Economy. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/92495 |
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| Inayatullah, Naeem. |
| Ethnic regionalism may be the most powerful force in Asia today. Yet ethnic boundaries are not plotted on maps and neither are they taken into consideration in most economic analysis. The problem is a serious one and wide. What makes ethnicity such a strong force? If it is such a strong force, it must effect national goals such as integration and "development". How are these goals affected by ethnicity? This was one line of questioning out of which this paper has emerged. There was another aimed at a different direction but ending at the same place. What is development? How do countries develop? What factors help and what factors hinder development? This paper attempts to answer all the above questions and, hence, the topic of this paper is the... |
| Tipo: Thesis or Dissertation |
Palavras-chave: International Development; Labor and Human Capital. |
| Ano: 1980 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/11156 |
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| Qat, Yousef M.. |
| The partial or complete failure of agricultural development programs in developing countries is often due to the lack of understanding by decision makers at all levels of the marketing links. Marketing is often conceptualized and understood only as a process of assembling produce in rural or wholesale markets. Other aspects and roles of marketing mainly as incentives for production are often not well understood. Thus, the process of improving development policies often depends on trial and error, and can be generally enhanced with more accurate information. On the other hand, notions about marketing that are wrong or based on half-truths are accumulated over the years and passed on from generation to generation as facts. The lack of market research results... |
| Tipo: Thesis or Dissertation |
Palavras-chave: Marketing. |
| Ano: 1991 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/11223 |
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| Labarta-Chavarri, Ricardo Antonio. |
| Agricultural expansion has traditionally led colonization of the Amazonian rainforest. Recently, pioneer farmers in the forest margins around Pucallpa, Peru, have been changing their production decisions and altering the deforestation process. In response to a government policy to protect forests in another region of the country, pioneer farmers have begun to add charcoal production to their activities. A recursive, dynamic optimization model analyzes how the incorporation of charcoal production by a representative pioneer farm would affect household net returns and the rate of deforestation. The model predicts that after 10 years, a net revenue maximizing pioneer farmer would increase household earnings and reduce forest conversion by producing charcoal.... |
| Tipo: Thesis or Dissertation |
Palavras-chave: Consumer/Household Economics; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/11242 |
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| Assiongbon, Ekoue K.. |
| Cocoa has made an important contribution to economic development in Togo. Until recently, virtually all of Togo's exports were agriculture, mainly: cocoa and coffee. In 1961, phosphate exports began, and by 1965 became the leading export commodity. Even after the discovery and production of phosphate minerals, agriculture exports, however, continue to provide more than 30 percent of all foreign exchange and to employ about 75 percent of the active population. Cocoa and coffee represent 70 percent of agricultural exports and cocoa alone provided an average of 27 percent of recorded export earnings between 1966 and 1975. Since 1965, the agriculture sector has been accorded top priority in the national development plan. However, this proclamation has... |
| Tipo: Thesis or Dissertation |
Palavras-chave: Crop Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 1982 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/11115 |
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| Ajobo, Owolabi. |
| The objective of this paper is to develop a dynamic model that may be useful in the analysis of investment in long term tree crop agriculture. The model is based on linear programming as modified by fixed assets theory. The starting point is the Heady-Loftsgard dynamic linear programming model restated in a stochastic form and imbedded in a decision theoretic construct to give a stochastic mixed integer programming model. The paper goes into a discussion of problems associated with agricultural data collection in Nigeria-on the conviction that specific use of any model can only come after the data problem has been reasonably solved. |
| Tipo: Thesis or Dissertation |
Palavras-chave: Crop Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 1972 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/11266 |
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| Pakasi, Piet Petrus. |
| Indonesia is a great archipelago, consisting of five main islands and about 13,000 smaller ones. Topographical features and soil types can be classified into three major groupings: 1) mountainous land area, 2) level or undulating to hilly land, and 3) low swampy lands. Indonesia is the fifth most populous country in the world after China, India, Russia, and the United States of America. It is predominantly a rural society, as well as an agricultural country. Agricultural policy has emphasized intensification, extensification, diversification and rehabilitation. This policy has been supported by the development of better irrigation schemes, improved on-farm water management, implementation of special intensification packages and increased labor... |
| Tipo: Thesis or Dissertation |
Palavras-chave: Crop Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 1988 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/11041 |
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| Hebie, Sekou. |
| As in almost all sub-Saharan African countries, agriculture plays an important role in the economic life of Burkina Faso. The World Bank's 1983 report indicates that agriculture's contribution to the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was 41 percent in 1981 compared to 16 percent for the industrial sector. In 1980, exports of agricultural products (basically cotton, groundnuts, and livestock) accounted for 89 percent of total export earnings. The country is primarily agricultural, with nearly 90 percent of the population dependent on agriculture as a livelihood. Yet it is well known today that Burkina Faso, going into its third decade as a sovereign nation, is still facing, like its Sahelian counterparts, one of the biggest challenges of economic... |
| Tipo: Thesis or Dissertation |
Palavras-chave: Crop Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 1984 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10953 |
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