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| Rebelo, Joao; Caldas, Jose Vaz; Matulich, Scott C.. |
| Globalization is challenging the very core of cooperative governance and ownership decision, especially in Southern European countries, like Portugal, where a large number of producers are organized in traditional and Mediterranean-style agricultural cooperatives. This paper analyses the effects of governance and control variables related with size over two alternative indicators of performance: revenues transferred to members/patrons and capital structure. The results suggest that these cooperatives have difficulties being sustainable in the more competitive global wine markets, if they follow, essentially, a practice of maximum patronage refund, reducing their capacity to improve leverage and to finance more profitable, but risky, long run investments. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Crop Production/Industries; Q13; D22; L25. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/99100 |
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| Hedberg, Anna. |
| The concept of economies of size is crucial for the analysis of price and output equilibria for a marketing cooperative. If there are economies of size in processing, a cooperatively organized processing industry may be socially preferable when compared to an investor-owned processor with monopsony power. This study investigates whether cost structure can be used as an efficiency argument for the cooperative dairy industry in Sweden. The results indicate economies of size in milk processing and, accordingly, marketing cooperatives appear to be a socially efficient form of business organization. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Livestock Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/46431 |
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| Cunha, Nina Rosa da Silveira; Lima, Joao Eustaquio de; Gomes, Marilia Fernandes Maciel; Braga, Marcelo Jose. |
| Being constituted as the largest risk factor and effective degradation to the Savannah, the man’s intervention in the nature and, especially, the agricultural exploration require analysis and better monitoring. This work aims to analyze the relationship between the agricultural exploration and the environmental degradation in the area of the Savannahs, in 1995-1996. In particular, it is intended, to use multivariate statistical analysis, to verify the factors associated with the intensity of farming predominant in the determination of the degradation pattern, and to obtain indexes of exploration intensity to make possible to categorize and to group the microrregions in terms of degradation potential. The results showed that the intensity of the... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Environmental degradation; Intensity of agricultural exploration; Savannah; Factorial analysis; Index of environmental degradation.; Agribusiness; Q50.. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61241 |
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| Borodin, Konstantin; Strokov, Anton. |
| The paper investigates interrelations between the dynamics of national central banks’ interest rates and international trade within the BRIC countries. It shows that countries with lower interest rates experience growth of the share of machinery industry exports rather than agriculture and food products, and, on the contrary, in countries with higher interest rates the share of agriculture and food exports increases and the share of machinery industry products declines. The investigation has shown that a relative shift in the interest rate can affect the specialization of countries. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Central banks’ interest rate; Exports; Specialization; Agribusiness; F1. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/115528 |
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| Kemenyne Horvath, Zsuzsanna. |
| The aim of the study is to review the vertical and horizontal reshuffling that took place in a specific area of the Hungarian grain product cycle, i.e. raw material production, and its effect on the demand-side power structure. The answers derived from questionnaires and in-depth interviews allowed the classification of buyers using cluster analysis, and also the modeling of their decisions during the price negotiation. The completed analysis shows us that on the grain market, price leaders are primarily among the large trading companies and holdings, which can be attributed to their size, storage capacity, logistical capabilities and strategy. Processing (mills, feed mixers, seed-sellers), integrator, retail and other companies on the grain market are... |
| Tipo: Book |
Palavras-chave: Grain sector; Process chain; Price leaders; Cluster analyses; Agribusiness; Agricultural Finance; Crop Production/Industries; International Relations/Trade. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43242 |
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| Lichtenberg, Erik; Smith-Ramirez, Ricardo. |
| Conservation subsidies may be awarded for otherwise profitable projects, in which case they do not improve environmental quality. We show that transaction costs involved in such subsidy programs may induce farmers to reduce the size and scope of conservation projects. An empirical study shows that cost sharing in Maryland has resulted in simpler projects that provide no greater environmental protection. Water quality does not appear to be a goal of cost sharing; farm productivity and political considerations do. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/22141 |
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| Wei, Song. |
| Based on the conclusion of the related researches on China’s rural poverty alleviation policies and poverty problems, studies of Chinese scholars on the convergence between rural minimum subsistence system and the development policies of poverty alleviation are illustrated and personal understandings proposed. On the one hand, considering the actual situations of the quickening of China’s urbanization and deepening of poverty, it is necessary to make significant adjustment and transformation in China’s poverty reduction policies and minimum subsistence security system. On the other hand, it is pointed out that there is no omnipotent experience to follow in the convergence of minimum subsistence security system and poverty reduction policies. The actual... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Countryside; Minimum subsistence security system; Poverty alleviation and development; Convergence; China; Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/113486 |
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| Kalogeras, Nikos; Pennings, Joost M.E.; Garcia, Philip. |
| The strategic choices of Small and Medium Enterprises in the agribusiness sector are fraught with large cost and revenue uncertainties. The transition to a new production system implies that SMEs must re-allocate resources and develop new strategies to achieve market goals. We highlight the agricultural, marketing and management literature on decision-making under risk for strategic decisions. Subsequently we discuss the various elicitation techniques to measure decision-makers' utility functions. That review indicates that one is able to measure the global utility function in a reliable and valid way. Particularly the measures based on experiments and rooted in expected utility framework seem to perform well. Furthermore, we develop various research... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/21354 |
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| Fu, Hui. |
| The paper has a detailed literature review in low-carbon economy research of academy circle in our country from three aspects that are conception and connotation of low-carbon economy, necessity and urgency of developing low-carbon economy and path choice of realizing low-carbon economy in our country. Low-carbon economy is the “green economy” that obtains the maximum output by discharging minimum greenhouse gases with the main characteristics of “three low and three high” that are low energy consumption, low pollution, low discharge and high effect, high efficiency, high benefit. To China, developing low-carbon economy is the inevitable choice in realizing peaceful rising and sustainable development as a responsible large country. It conforms to world... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Low-carbon economy; Policy suggestion; Path choice， China; Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/102396 |
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