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| Ngategize, Peter K.. |
| Livestock production in developing countries has begun getting much attention from governments, donor agents and researchers. In many countries cash crops constituted the major source of foreign exchange earnings and thus got much more attention than livestock production. However, the 1970's were generally a period of falling prices for most of the major cash crops (coffee, cocoa, cotton, sisal, etc.). The critical need for turning to other foreign exchange earning commodities, the need to reduce the importation of manufactured foodstuffs and the growing demand for animal proteins plus the pressure to improve the living conditions of the usually less privileged pastoral and agripastoral communities requires full understanding of the production... |
| Tipo: Thesis or Dissertation |
Palavras-chave: Livestock Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 1982 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/11008 |
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| Nikkel, Steven K.. |
| Several aspects of the situation pertaining to the citizens of Freetown, Sierra Leone are described in the first two chapters. The societal and economic contexts of the community are most heavily emphasized, particularly the transfer of rural institutions to the city as well as the small-scale industry and marketing aspects of Freetown's economy. The following four chapters highlight several approaches to development in the Third World. Those described are farming systems research, marketing systems research and development, community development, diffusion of innovation, development education, and management. In the final chapter, the various approaches are synthesized into a conceptual framework. This framework is composed of the following steps:... |
| Tipo: Thesis or Dissertation |
Palavras-chave: International Development. |
| Ano: 1985 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/11133 |
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| Williams, Mollie B.. |
| An integrated pest management (IPM) impact assessment protocol was applied to the IPM program for tart cherries in Northwest Lower Michigan. Four pest management scenarios were developed for typical tart cherry growers in the region, the level of adoption of each of the 91 scenarios was determined, and the profitability and environmental and human health effects from adoption of each of the scenarios was assessed. Data was collected through personal inter-views with IPM specialists in tart cherries in the Northwest Lower Michigan region and using secondary data sources. Analysis of the different pest management scenarios revealed that a moderate amount of IPM adoption yielded the best profitability and environmental and human health results. The analysis... |
| Tipo: Thesis or Dissertation |
Palavras-chave: Crop Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/11034 |
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| Munsell, William E.. |
| During the last several years there has been significant development in the energy situation. The present shortages and the resultant problems were not widely anticipated by the American public nor its elected leaders. Recognition of the current and possible future impacts of the energy shortage upon personal lifestyles and community structure is spreading, however, as individuals, businesses, and whole communities increasingly become directly affected by the present shortage. The results of ongoing public and private efforts to solve this shortage at the national and international levels will clearly be the primary determinants of how long the present shortage lasts, and of how severe it becomes. These efforts to a large extent have in the past... |
| Tipo: Thesis or Dissertation |
Palavras-chave: Consumer/Household Economics; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 1980 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/11269 |
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| Silva, Carlos Arthur Barbosa da. |
| The shortage of food for a substantial proportion of the world's population is a problem which has been challenging our society for a long time. In the 1972-1974 period an estimated 1.3 billion people subsisted in less developed countries with dietary energy supplies under the minimum nutritional requirements, and the current outlook is for a widening gap between needs and food supplies. Although progress has been made in production oriented research, such as the development of high yielding crop varieties and of better way to control pests and diseases, there is still a need for additional means to increase the world food supply. The objectives of this paper are as follows: 1) to define the problems and its relevance for developing countries; 2) to... |
| Tipo: Thesis or Dissertation |
Palavras-chave: Marketing. |
| Ano: 1979 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10996 |
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| Ularo, Khonje Makaiko Gonapanyanja. |
| Despite consecutive years of good harvest, Malawi has experienced continuous price escalation of staple food commodities unsolved over the time. The real price of maize in Malawi has increased by 141 percent between 1998 and 2008, and has been rising along with the food prices of many other commodities over this period. This study therefore investigates the determinants of food inflation rate in Malawi and its effect on the economy. Monthly and annual data were collected from National Statistical Office and Reserve Bank of Malawi from 1978 to 2008. Data were analyzed by estimating an error correction model (ECM). The results show that fertilizer prices, crop diversification index, maize prices, diesel prices, real exchange rates and real interest rates... |
| Tipo: Thesis or Dissertation |
Palavras-chave: Food inflation; ECM; Crop diversification; GDP; Economy; Malawi; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/117802 |
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| Baritakis, Dimitrios. |
| Prices for all commodities vary over time. The degree of instability for each commodity reflects characteristics of the industry. In the non agricultural industries the technology has certain input-output relationships. Few random factors affect the output. However, in agriculture some random factors make these relationships uncertain. Weather and biological conditions can result in output that is far from that planned by the producer. The coordination system within the marketing chain is also different for the two groups. In many non agricultural industries marketing arrangements, such as vertical integration and contacts ensure that the quantity produced will match the expected demand. So, within the marketing channels supply and demand are... |
| Tipo: Thesis or Dissertation |
Palavras-chave: Demand and Price Analysis. |
| Ano: 1985 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/11080 |
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| Zewde, Almaz. |
| This study aimed to investigate the strategic assumptions and practices in World Bank project appraisal programs. Semistructured interviews of senior World Bank field officers in Addis Ababa and Nirobi and extensive review of World Bank appraisal directives and related documents provided the data for the study. The purpose was to see the correspondence between Bank project appraisal methods, assumptions, and criteria and the iterative/participatory development model. The findings suggest that despite the Bank's awareness of the inherent value of the iterative/participatory development model and expressed interest in changing the direction of the Bank's development practices towards it, the project approach with appraisal emphasis on monetary and... |
| Tipo: Thesis or Dissertation |
Palavras-chave: International Development; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods. |
| Ano: 1993 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10975 |
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| Brito, Herminaldo Sousa. |
| The general purpose of this study is to analyze selected factors affecting Cape Verde's ability to increase production and sales of bananas. In this process the export market of Portugal will be examined as it has traditionally been the only export market for Cape Verdian bananas. In specific terms the objectives of this study are: 1) To analyze factors affecting the supply of bananas in Cape Verde; 2) To review trends in demand for bananas in Cape Verde and in Portugal as an attempt to discover potential reasons for the drop in banana exports from Cape Verde; and 3) To suggest additional research and policy considerations which could improve Cape Verde's ability to produce and sell bananas. |
| Tipo: Thesis or Dissertation |
Palavras-chave: Crop Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 1982 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/11221 |
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| Cadenas, Alfredo M.. |
| The objectives of this paper are five-fold: 1) it represents an attempt to describe the problems, issues, and policies related to the Spanish sugar subsector, and, to put together and organize some facts about its functioning; 2) finding sugar demand and supply relationships at the provincial and regional levels respectively; 3) some extrapolations of past trends in sugar consumption and sugar-beet production will be made in order to project long run levels to 1980 and 1985; 4) to find the area, or areas, which may be considered as the "main consuming areas" or places with "the largest sugar deficit" from which to compute the "threshold", "variable levies", and at-the-port-differentiated prices in an economically efficient way; and 5) to find whether... |
| Tipo: Thesis or Dissertation |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy. |
| Ano: 1975 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10973 |
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| Hinkston, Aaron. |
| Today, the unionizing efforts of farm laborers have reached the highest plateau of achievement since the beginning of those efforts in the United States. The main reason for this is improved laws, public awareness, and union recognition. A very strong movement is under way, which is being led by Cesar Chavez. Now, as always, there is a three-way squeeze between those parties immediately involved. At one time or another, each of these parties is caught in the middle when the squeeze is vigorously applied. The farm worker is trying to apply pressure on the farmer; the farmer, in turn, is faced with the fact that he is a price taker rather than a price maker; the consumer is constantly fighting against higher prices, so he, in turn, directs his leverage... |
| Tipo: Thesis or Dissertation |
Palavras-chave: Labor and Human Capital. |
| Ano: 1972 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10990 |
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| Chopak, Charles John. |
| One of the goals emphasized in Senegal's new Agricultural Policy is to intensify agricultural production with aim of approaching food self-sufficiency. This thesis examines the potential of animal traction to evaluate if it represents an appropriate technology to achieve this goal. Animal traction was evaluated to observe if the potential benefits- improvement in yield, cropping intensity, area, profits, human drudgery, and labor productivity- were being accrued to farmers in two zones in the Lower Casamance Region of Senegal. The main conclusion of the study is that farmers who have access to animal traction chose to expand upland production rather than production per unit area. The benefits, therefore, were due to expansion rather then intensification. |
| Tipo: Thesis or Dissertation |
Palavras-chave: Farm Management. |
| Ano: 1987 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/11060 |
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| Chen, Weihong; Zhang, Ruide; Liu, Guichuan. |
| With the implementation of the policy of expanding domestic demand, farmers have become the main body of rural economy and rural industrialization. Development of rural industrialization promotes the development of rural economy in China, effectively transfers the surplus labor force in rural areas, continuously optimizes the rural economic structure, improves the living standard of farmers, and has made important contributions to the stability and development of economy and society in China. This paper introduces the connotation of rural industrialization, classifies it into three modes according to the farmer’s investment and economic development, such as exogenous model of rural industrialization, endogenous model of rural industrialization and... |
| Tipo: Thesis or Dissertation |
Palavras-chave: Rural industrialization; Development model; Policy suggestion; China; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Industrial Organization; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54072 |
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| Byiringiro, Fidele Usabuwera. |
| Despite its importance in agricultural development, the oft-observed inverse relationship between farm size and land productivity in developing countries has received very limited attention in Africa. This work tries to fill the gap by analyzing the relationship between farm-size and productivity in Rwanda. Our results confirm the existence of an inverse relationship between farm-size and land productivity. Smaller farms have a lower opportunity cost of labor and a higher shadow price of land compared to larger farms. These disparities are the results of constraints faced by smaller farms (a) to access land, and (b) to access labor market opportunities. The observed relationship is affected by land quality proxied by erosion (average annual soil loss),... |
| Tipo: Thesis or Dissertation |
Palavras-chave: Land Economics/Use; Productivity Analysis. |
| Ano: 1995 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/11215 |
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| Marquez, Jorge E.. |
| Acreage allocation decisions by farmers have been identified as one of the causes of the decline in Michigan's navy bean production. Growing navy beans in successive years or in short rotation with other crops that return little organic matter to the soil has been shown to adversely affect soil structure, depletion of organic matter, and increase disease and pest problems. Furthermore, a large portion of the instability present in the quantity of navy beans produces, and therefore in prices and revenue, is directly related to variability in acreage allocation decisions of growers. In consequence, the problem as it is seen in this paper is one of resource allocation decisions by farmers. There is a need for defining a navy bean production strategy,... |
| Tipo: Thesis or Dissertation |
Palavras-chave: Crop Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 1989 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/11099 |
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