The role of agricultural cooperatives in sustaining the wheat diversity and productivity: The case of southern Italy

We hypothesize that institutions such as agricultural cooperatives influence regional levels of variety diversity through input supply, processing or marketing functions. This diversity can also affect yield, a partial measure of crop productivity. We test these hypotheses with data from southern It...

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Main Authors: di Falco, Salvatore, Smale, Melinda, Perrings, Charles
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: Springer 2008
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/162309

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