Resultados de búsqueda - "contract"

Efficient hedging in an illiquid market por Kalin, Erik

“…The contracts used are electricity forwards traded at the Nordic electricity market Nord Pool. …”
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Socio-economic impact and acceptance study of drone-applied pesticide on maize in Ghana por Annor-Frempong, Festus, Akaba, Selorm

“…In Africa, UAS services can be described as nascent and are usually provided by entrepreneurs who invest in the equipment and necessary skills to use the technology, and go on to conduct or sub-contract data analysis, interpret the findings and advise customers. …”
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Potential collusion and trust: Evidence from a field experiment in Vietnam por Torero, Máximo, Viceisza, Angelino

“…We conduct framed trust games using contract dairy farmers in Vietnam as first movers to assess the impact of potential collusion on trust. …”
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Determinants of credit rationing: a study of informal lenders and formal credit groups in Madagascar por Zeller, Manfred

“…Previous research on the determinants of credit rationing exclusively focused on the behavior of formal lenders who contract directly with an individual borrower. Based on a household survey in Madagascar, this paper presents an analysis of credit rationing behavior by informal lenders and by members of community-based groups that allocate formal group loans among themselves. …”
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Farming, food, and empowerment: The journey of Malawi’s homes industries por Chideya, Yohane, Munthali, Justice, Birachi, Eliud, Rubyogo, Jean Claude

“…After a lucrative catering contract with a local company ended, Mwafulirwa shifted her focus to producing groundnut flour, seizing a market opportunity that has since blossomed into a beacon of hope for thousands of smallholder farmers across Malawi's Karonga, Chitipa, and Nkhata Bay districts.…”
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The economics of rotating savings and credit associations: evidence from the Jamaican 'Partner' por Handa, Sudhanshu, Kirton, Claremont

“…We find, for example, that payments to the Rosca leader significantly enhance the sustainability of the Rosca, and that the contractual relationship between the leader and other Rosca members is transaction cost minimizing' when the degree of asset specificity is higher the contract is more flexible. Other theoretical predictions we validate are the inverse relationship between size of Rosca and size of contribution, and the use of Rosca funds for durable goods purchase.…”
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Institutional Options for Entry of Forestry into the CGIAR System por CGIAR Technical Advisory Committee Ad Hoc Panel on Forestry Research

“…The remaining two suggest a central forestry research institution focused on trees as a commodity, operating through contract research and networking, either with or without a research capacity of its own. …”
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Structural changes in the Philippine pig industry and their environmental implications por Catelo, Maria Angeles O., Narrod, Clare, Tiongco, Marites

“…For contract farms, lands that are classified as agricultural carried the expected positive coefficient sign. …”
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Energy from municipal solid waste in Chennai, India por Axelsson , Camilla, Kvarnström , Theres

“…To prolong the lifespan of the dumpsites CoC has signed a contract with the company Hydroair Tectonics, who shall minimize the waste on Perungudi. …”
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Gendered seed production and delivery models across 10 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa por Manoti, Dismas, Gwaka, Josky, Nchanji, Eileen, Lutomia, Cosmas, Yila, Jummai, Puskur, Ranjitha

“…The most common production models practiced by the actors are contract farming, seed production cooperatives/groups and seed multiplication and distribution. …”
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Empowering women to engage in commercial agriculture por Ambler, Kate, Jones, Kelly M., O'Sullivan, Michael

“…We designed a private sector intervention to encourage male outgrowers in Uganda to transfer a sugarcane contract to their wife or to register a previously uncontracted block in her name. …”
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Innovations in rural and agricultural finance: Credit Risk Management in Financing Agriculture por Wenner, Mark

“…In developing countries, farmers also lack access to both modern instruments of risk management—such as agricultural insurance, futures contracts, or guarantee funds—and ex post emergency government assistance. …”
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Why do migrants remit?: an analysis for the Dominican Sierra por de la Briere, Benedicte, de Janvry, Alain, Lambert, Sylvie, Sadoulet, Elisabeth

“…Two contrasting hypotheses about what motivates Dominican migrants to send remittances to their rural parents in the Sierra are tested: (1) an investment in potential bequests and (2) an insurance contract between parents and migrant children. Remittances from young migrants, males, and migrants who want to return to the Sierra follow a pattern consistent with investment. …”
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Restructuring the Vietnamese rice sector: towards increasing sustainability por Demont, Matty, Rutsaert, Pieter

“…Three strategies are discussed for making rice value chains more sustainable; embodying sustainability in the product through certified sustainable production labels; internalizing sustainable production standards through vertical coordination (e.g., contract farming); and disembodying sustainability through book and claim certificate trading.…”
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Feed the Future Zimbabwe mechanization and extension activity FY 2025 Quarter One Report: October 1, 2024 - December 31, 2024 por International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center

“…This is the Financial Year 2 (FY2) annual report covering October 2023 to September 2024 of the Feed the Future Zimbabwe Mechanization and Extension Activity, funded by USAID/Zimbabwe under the contract AID-BFS-IO-17-00005 and implemented by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) in cooperation with its subcontractor. …”
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Pasture seed production in Colombia por Ferguson, John E.

“…This apparent anomaly is explained by the fact that seed is natural by-product in some grazing regions which is harvested from pastures by manual contract labour and then traded between merchants, generally without any mechanical processing. …”
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Improving humanitarian response to slow-onset disasters using famine indexed weather derivatives por Chantarat, S., Turvey, C.G., Mude, Andrew G., Barrett, Christopher B.

“…We use the case of arid lands of northern Kenya, where rainfall proves a strong predictor of widespread and severe child wasting, to provide a simple empirical illustration of the potential contract designs.…”
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Skördarmätning i gallring por Rosander, Gabriel

“…There are two aspects that have a major impact on whether a contract is accepted for harvester measurement or not. …”
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CGIAR Center Directors Meeting Minutes, Presiding Chair: R. Sawyer por CGIAR Center Directors Committee

“…IIE’s services are discussed and reviewed, post-retirement insurance is recommended, a health insurance contract with Van Breda is initiated. The minutes record concern about increasing reporting requirements that overload centers and a decision is taken to voice this concern to donors. …”
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WILDMEAT interventions database: A new database of interventions addressing unsustainable wild meat hunting, consumption and trade por Willis, J., Ingram, D.J., Abernethy, K., Kemalasari, D., Muchlish, Sampurna, Y., Midoko Iponga, D., Coad, L.M.

“…Management responsibility for these interventions can rest with different actors, from central governments (which often contract nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) to support their resource management) to private sector concessionaries (e.g. timber companies), or devolved directly to wildlife-hunting communities. …”
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