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  2. There is exhaustive literature on technology adoption rates and the relationship between technology adoption and relevant socioeconomic and policy variables. Yet adoption estimates derived from the application...

    Authors: Franklin Simtowe, Solomon Asfaw and Tsedeke Abate

    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2016 4:7

    Content type: Research

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  5. The objective of this paper is to examine the importance of energy and climate shocks in Uganda’s food price processes. The unique features of this paper are threefold: first, we identify climate shocks comput...

    Authors: Joseph Mawejje

    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2016 4:4

    Content type: Research

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  6. This study assessed the determinants of intensity of adoption of Improved Rice Varieties (IRVs) and the effect of market participation on farmers’ welfare in Nigeria using the Tobit and Heckman two-stage model...

    Authors: Bola Amoke Awotide, Aziz A. Karimov and Aliou Diagne

    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2016 4:3

    Content type: Research

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  8. The paper analyzes the impact of partial liberalization of trade and changes in world prices of agricultural commodities in Bangladesh using single country Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model. Since the...

    Authors: Mohammad Jahangir Alam, Jeroen Buysse, Ismat Ara Begum, Stephan Nolte, Eric J. Wailes and Guido Van Huylenbroeck

    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2016 4:1

    Content type: Research

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  9. This paper reviews recent advances in, and challenges for, weather index insurance for managing drought risk in smallholder agriculture, with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa. Despite its promise to integrate loc...

    Authors: Million A. Tadesse, Bekele A. Shiferaw and Olaf Erenstein

    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:26

    Content type: Review

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  10. The paper presents a study of a new social farming initiative: kindergarten farms. The paper emphasizes the value of potential synergies between the agricultural and the educational service. The two case studi...

    Authors: Biancamaria Torquati, Costanza Tancini, Chiara Paffarini and Roberta Illuminati

    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:25

    Content type: Research

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  11. The article provides a literature review on the topic of identification of supply and demand. In particular, it discusses the identification problem, that is the issue of having to solve for unique values of t...

    Authors: Fabio Gaetano Santeramo

    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:24

    Content type: Review

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  13. The relevance of projection bias in decision making processes has been widely studied, but not specifically in experimental auctions. We study the role of projection bias in experimental auctions by examining ...

    Authors: Teresa Briz, Andreas C. Drichoutis and Lisa House

    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:22

    Content type: Research

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  14. Over the 2000s’, consumers’ food purchases have been increasingly informed by supply chain-related issues, with growing concerns about the sustainability of chains differing for their geographical scope. As a ...

    Authors: Francesca Galli, Fabio Bartolini, Gianluca Brunori, Luca Colombo, Oriana Gava, Stefano Grando and Andrea Marescotti

    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:21

    Content type: Research

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  15. The literature on food economics has extensively analyzed consumer preferences for extra-virgin olive oil attributes. In order to summarize and systematize the information gained in recent years, it seems appr...

    Authors: Teresa Del Giudice, Carla Cavallo, Francesco Caracciolo and Gianni Cicia

    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:20

    Content type: Research

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  16. The addition of sulfur dioxide is a longstanding and common practice in the winemaking industry. Sulfur dioxide preserves wine, preventing oxidation and browning. However, in the U.S., wine labeled as organic ...

    Authors: Kelly A Grogan

    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:19

    Content type: Research

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  17. Low adoption of modern agricultural technologies amongst farmers in Nigeria has been identified as one of the main reasons for the low agricultural productivity and increase in poverty level. The general objec...

    Authors: Carolyn A. Afolami, Abiodun E. Obayelu and Ignatius I. Vaughan

    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:18

    Content type: Research

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  18. The promotion of sustainability is envisaged by the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) as a major issue for future policies in the agro-food sector, in line with the Europe 2020 Strategy. In this context, “g...

    Authors: Francesco Diotallevi, Emanuele Blasi and Silvio Franco

    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:17

    Content type: Research

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  19. This paper investigates the international quarterly prices of wheat and rice from 1983(1) to 2012(4). The empirical analysis takes place with the structural time series methodology which decomposes the price s...

    Authors: Anthony N Rezitis, Anastasia G Ntinou and Dimitris N Pachis

    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:16

    Content type: Research

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  20. Rhodes Grass crop is continuously cultivated in coastal area of Salalah and Batinah region of Sultanate of Oman and created a negative impact on agriculture production. The government authority stopped Rhodes ...

    Authors: Kheiry Hassan M Ishag

    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:15

    Content type: Research

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  21. US farm programs have been moving towards using insurance to provide the farm safety net for many years but this policy transformation has not been realized for dairy farms. Historically, support for dairy far...

    Authors: Christopher A Wolf and Nicole J Widmar

    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:14

    Content type: Research

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  22. This study examines whether the implementation of a quality management system (QMS) and the choice of a certain quality assurance scheme (QAS) were decided as responses by fruit and vegetable producers to mark...

    Authors: Dimitrios Tselempis, Philippos Karipidis, Alexandra Pavloudi and Anastasios Semos

    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:13

    Content type: Research

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  23. Organic cotton relies on ecological processes and the use of natural resources to sustain the production system, unlike conventional cotton, mainly characterized by massive utilization of synthesis chemicals. ...

    Authors: Epiphane Sodjinou, Laurent C Glin, Gian Nicolay, Silvère Tovignan and Jonas Hinvi

    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:12

    Content type: Research

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  25. The ornamental plant cultivation could benefit from networking, as the locus of innovation is no longer the individual farm, but increasingly the network within which the farm is embedded. The main contributio...

    Authors: Evelien Lambrecht, Nicole Taragola, Bianka Kühne, Maarten Crivits and Xavier Gellynck

    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:10

    Content type: Research

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  28. Immunization through vaccination has been a commercially available pre-harvest intervention to reduce E. coli shedding in cattle for about five years. Despite demonstrated substantial improvement in human health ...

    Authors: Glynn T Tonsor and Ted C Schroeder

    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:7

    Content type: Research

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  30. Organizations, institutions and new governance mechanisms are taking place in the domain of innovation and valorization of the agrifood sector. Though not new in the literature, this topic is capturing the int...

    Authors: Luigi Cembalo

    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:5

    Content type: Short note

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  32. Peri-urban agriculture is exposed to multiple pressures, which push to diversification and multifunctionality. However, the urban-rural link develops in different ways according to the features of the territor...

    Authors: Emanuele Blasi, Clara Cicatiello, Barbara Pancino and Silvio Franco

    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:3

    Content type: Research

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  33. The present paper analyses the relations between food and oil prices for Malaysia using a nonlinear autoregressive distributed lags (NARDL) model. The bounds test of the NARDL specification suggests the presen...

    Authors: Mansor H Ibrahim

    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2015 3:2

    Content type: Research

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  35. Depletion of natural resources has become a key issue on the European policy agenda. Bottom-up measures have emerged in several countries with a view to promoting awareness campaigns and environmental sustaina...

    Authors: Luigi Cembalo, Francesco Caracciolo, Giuseppina Migliore, Alessia Lombardi and Giorgio Schifani

    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2014 2:18

    Content type: Research

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  36. Adoption rates of 19 dairy technologies, management practices, and production systems (TMPPS) are estimated for the U.S. for 2005 and 2010 and, in cases where data are available, 1993 and 2000. Logit models ar...

    Authors: Jeffrey Gillespie, Richard Nehring and Isaac Sitienei

    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2014 2:17

    Content type: Research

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  37. The connection between agriculture and environment is a central topic to the agricultural policy agenda and it has been the core of policy reforms. These linkages have been strengthened by the 2003 Common Agri...

    Authors: Fabio Bartolini and Gianluca Brunori

    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2014 2:13

    Content type: Research

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  38. This study analyzes impact of climate change on yield, planting decisions and output of five major food crops (cassava, maize, sorghum, rice and yam) in Ghana. Results of Multivariate Tobit Model show that yie...

    Authors: Zakaria A Issahaku and Keshav L Maharjan

    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2014 2:16

    Content type: Research

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  39. In this study, we estimate final demand for beverages with a particular focus on alcoholic beverages and calculate elasticities using microdata from the Swiss household expenditure survey from 2000 to 2009, wh...

    Authors: Matteo Aepli

    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2014 2:15

    Content type: Research

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  42. Innovation platforms are established to facilitate open communication and collaboration among various actors usually within a value chain to promote collective resource management. The concept of innovation pl...

    Authors: Edward Martey, Prince M Etwire, Alexander N Wiredu and Wilson Dogbe

    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2014 2:11

    Content type: Research

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  43. This paper models inorganic fertilizer and improved maize varieties adoption as joint decisions. Controlling for household, plot-level, institutional and other factors, the study found that household adoption ...

    Authors: Maurice J Ogada, Germano Mwabu and Diana Muchai

    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2014 2:12

    Content type: Research

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  45. Identification and characterization of farming systems simplify huge diversity of farm types in complex agro-ecosystems, which is of critical importance for precise technological intervention and informed poli...

    Authors: Rupak Goswami, Soumitra Chatterjee and Binoy Prasad

    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2014 2:5

    Content type: Research

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  48. Few efficiency studies, to date, have been conducted for Central Asian countries. This article fills the gap in the literature by conducting a frontier efficiency analysis using survey data obtained from the c...

    Authors: Aziz A Karimov

    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2014 2:7

    Content type: Research

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  49. Food education has attracted growing concern focusing on appropriate dietary habits amid the deterioration of many aspects of health in this industrial society. For this purpose, a self-motivating type of food...

    Authors: Yasuo Ohe, Shinichi Kurihara and Shinpei Shimoura

    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2014 2:6

    Content type: Research

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  50. We evaluate the impact of the recent increases in major food prices on the intake of essential nutrients in Lebanon, a small heavily import-dependent economy. Using nationally representative households’ expend...

    Authors: Souhad Abou Zaki, Jad Chaaban, Lara Nasreddine and Ali Chalak

    Citation: Agricultural and Food Economics 2014 2:3

    Content type: Research

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