Plus c’est la même chose? Questioning crop diversification as a response to agricultural deregulation in Saskatchewan, Canada

Bradshaw, Ben

doi:10.1016/s0743-0167(03)00033-0

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“…Although, this index is mainly used in the marketing industry to analyze market concentration, it has also been used to represent crop diversification [35,36]. Herfindhal index (DHI) is the sum of square of the proportion of individual activities in a portfolio.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

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Analysis of Production and Consumption of Organic Products in South Africa

Kisaka-Lwayo¹,

Obi²

2016

Sustainable Agriculture and Food Supply

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Analysis of Production and Consumption of Organic Products in South Africa

Kisaka-Lwayo¹,

Obi²

2016

Sustainable Agriculture and Food Supply

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“…Use of Herfindahl index in estimating level of crop diversification is common in the literature [17,100,101]. Crop diversification is a commonly prescribed strategy in different policy documents for agricultural growth and development.…”

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Agricultural Productivity Growth and the Role of Capital in South Asia (1980–2013)

2017

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Abstract:The study assessed agricultural sustainability in South Asia (i.e., Bangladesh, Pakistan, India and Nepal) by computing multi-lateral multi-temporal Total Factor Productivity (TFP) indices and their six finer components (technical change, technical-, scale-and mix-efficiency changes, residual scale and residual mix-efficiency changes) and examined the role of capital in driving TFP growth covering a 34-year period . Results revealed that all countries sustained agricultural productivity growth at variable rates with Bangladesh experiencing highest rate estimated @1.05% p.a. followed by India (0.52%), Pakistan (0.38%) and Nepal (0.06% p.a.). There were little or no variation in technical and scale efficiency changes among the countries. However, residual scale efficiency increased @0.44% p.a. in Bangladesh, 0.12% p.a. in Pakistan, remained unchanged in India and declined −0.39% p.a. in Nepal. Similarly, mix efficiency increased @0.44% in Bangladesh, remained unchanged in India and declined @−0.12% p.a.in Pakistan and −0.39% p.a. in Nepal. The major drivers of agricultural TFP growth were the levels of natural, human and technology capital endowments whereas financial capital and crop diversification had opposite effects. Policy implications include land and tenurial reforms aimed at consolidating farm operation size and smooth operation of the land rental market to improve natural capital, investments in education to improve human capital and agricultural R&D to enhance technology capital in order to boost agricultural productivity growth in South Asia.

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“…Analyzing lite rature in the field of agricultural risk (Halter, 1971;Dillon, 1971;Hardaker, 2006 Bradshaw, 2004). In general, all these studies focus on a limited set of risk sour ces, excluding several measurable and nonmeasu rable risk factors from the analysis.…”

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Sprendimų priėmimas žemės ūkyje ir draudimas, kaip rizikos valdymo priemonė

Girdžiūtė¹,

Slavickienė²

2012

Žemės Ūkio Mokslai

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Business or any other activity in agriculture is at higher risk comparing with other sectors. Accordingly, agricultural risk is associated with negative outcomes stemming from imperfectly predictable biological and climatic variables. These variables include natural adversities (for example, pests and diseases); climatic factors are not within the control of agricultural producers. So in agriculture it is very important to identify, evaluate and manage risk, only then decisions made in a farm will bring profit and other positive results. Consequently, this article presents the main steps for making effective decisions in agriculture. Secondly, it introduces one of the most effective risk management tools -insurance. This article presents insurance types and systems, their advantages and disadvantages. And, finally, it illustrates how the scenario analysis method for making decisions in agriculture can be used. The main advantage of the scenario analysis method is that it can evaluate qualitative and quantitative information. Using the scenario analysis method, it is possible not only to evaluate each risk or group of risks, but also to evaluate the performance of management tools and to decide which insurance type is the most useful.

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Plus c’est la même chose? Questioning crop diversification as a response to agricultural deregulation in Saskatchewan, Canada

Cited by 49 publications

References 47 publications

Analysis of Production and Consumption of Organic Products in South Africa

Analysis of Production and Consumption of Organic Products in South Africa

Agricultural Productivity Growth and the Role of Capital in South Asia (1980–2013)

Sprendimų priėmimas žemės ūkyje ir draudimas, kaip rizikos valdymo priemonė

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