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Still an Awkward Class: Central European post-peasants at home and abroad in the era of neoliberalism

Chris Hann

Praktyka Teoretyczna > 2013 > 9 > 3 > 177-198

The paper builds on the author’s intimate knowledge of Eastern European village life over four decades. Before, during, and after socialism, villagers (“peasants” ) have always been incorporated into wider structures, while at the same time challenging standard social science theories. Their greater ability to reproduce themselves “outside the market” is the basis of their distinctiveness; this corresponds...

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Factors influencing the profit and choice of agribusiness for agricultural cooperatives in Thailand

Anchalee Nuansri, Avishek Datta, Takuji W. Tsusaka, Farhad Zulfiqar

Journal of International Development > 36 > 1 > 751 - 772

Many agricultural cooperatives in Thailand do not conduct agribusiness and face declining profits. Therefore, this study examined the factors influencing their profit and agribusiness choices. The results reveal that operating capital, the presence of a trading business and average payback positively affect profit. In contrast, the number of cooperative members and the number of staff members have...

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Exporting decision of agricultural firms: The role of foreign direct investment

Radovan Kastratović

Agribusiness > 39 > 4 > 960 - 984

In this study, we examine how foreign direct investment affects agricultural firms' exporting decisions. We investigate this by using a Tobit model of export intensity, estimated on the sample of 104 Serbian agricultural firms observed in the period 2014–2017. In particular, we considered both direct and indirect export effects of foreign direct investment. The results indicate that foreign ownership...

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Role of market participation on smallholder vegetable farmers' wellbeing: Evidence from matching approach in Eastern India

Shiladitya Dey, Piyush K. Singh

Agribusiness > 39 > 4 > 1217 - 1237

The study identifies determinants of vegetable farmers' market participation and evaluates their impact on households' welfare. In this study, we collected 175 cross‐sectional household data and employed a probit regression model to identify the determinants of vegetable farmers' market participation. The study estimates the impact of market participation on households' income and per capita consumption...

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Effect of subsidies on farms' exit decision

Roman Neyter, Oleg Nivievskyi

Agribusiness > 39 > 4 > 941 - 959

Farm exit plays a vital role in the overall productivity growth of the industry. However, little attention is paid to the effects of different support policies on the exit decision. In this paper, we analyze and compare two subsidy schemes—direct subsidies and tax benefits in the form of the special value‐added tax regime on the exit decision. Employing a mixed‐effect logistic model and the farm‐level...

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Rural Mobilisation and Agrarian Political Economy in Argentina, 2001–2020

Pablo Lapegna, Tomás Palmisano

Bulletin of Latin American Research > 42 > 3 > 341 - 356

In this article, we reconstruct the mobilisations of rural actors both from ‘below’ and from ‘above’ and their connections to Argentina's agrarian political economy between 2001 and 2020. We divide the analysis into three periods and review key protest events and the actions of movements and organisations, paying special attention to two dimensions. First, we consider how rural movements and organisations...

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Determinants of small farmers' participation in contract farming in developing countries: A study in Vietnam

Viet Hoang, Vinh Nguyen

Agribusiness > 39 > 3 > 836 - 853

This study aims to explore the determinants of farmers' participation in contract farming by using a qualitative approach and empirically assess the impact of the factors withdrawn from the qualitative analysis and previous studies by employing the probit model in Vietnam. The qualitative analysis illustrates 10 original factors that affect farmers' participation in contract farming, including cooperative...

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Opportunities in farming research from an operations management perspective

Sushil Gupta, Hossein Rikhtehgar Berenji, Manish Shukla, Nagesh N. Murthy

Production and Operations Management > 32 > 6 > 1577 - 1596

We review and analyze the farming (upstream agribusiness supply chain) research literature since 1965 to identify farming research opportunities for operations management (OM) researchers. A majority of reviewed papers in our corpus, until the turn of the 21st century, primarily focus on improving operational efficiency and effectiveness of farming using optimization techniques. However, during the...

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“Keep a sinking boat afloat”: Class contradictions in a nascent shrimp farmers' cooperative in South China

Yu Huang

Journal of Agrarian Change > 23 > 2 > 286 - 306

Whether producer cooperatives could serve as a stepping stone leading to socialism is a much debated issue in Marxian scholarship. It has now been recognized that producer cooperatives might possess paradoxical potentials of promoting egalitarian economy and democratic management whilst at the same time constructing class hierarchies. So far, agrarian scholars have already identified how pre‐existing...

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Do smaller chicken farms use more antibiotics? Evidence of antibiotic diffusion from Nigeria

Charuta M. Parkhi, Lenis Saweda O. Liverpool‐Tasie, Thomas Reardon

Agribusiness > 39 > 1 > 242 - 262

Farmers across the world have been using antibiotics in poultry production for both therapeutic and nontherapeutic purposes since the mid 1900s. The literature on antibiotic diffusion and intensification is largely focused on developed countries in North America and Western Europe. There is some literature on Asia where the emphasis has shifted from antibiotic diffusion to concerns about antimicrobial...

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Effectiveness of nutritional information in increasing demand for enriched yoghurt among poor households in Kenya: Implications for agribusiness marketing strategies

David L. Ortega, Vincenzina Caputo, Mywish Maredia

Agribusiness > 39 > 1 > 285 - 290

The yoghurt market represents one of the most dynamic consumer segments in Kenya's dairy industry. Product innovation like yoghurt enriched with nutrients is increasingly promoted to address the challenges of micro‐nutrient deficiencies, especially among children and women of poor households. Using data from 383 in‐household interviews in predominantly poor neighborhoods in Nairobi, we focus on evaluating...

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Food prices, processing, and shocks: Evidence from rice and COVID‐19

Joseph Goeb, Phoo Pye Zone, Nang Lun Kham Synt, A. Myint Zu, more

Journal of Agricultural Economics > 73 > 2 > 338 - 355

Rice is the staple food for about half of the world's population and mills are the essential processing link between farmers and consumers, making rice milling one of the most important agro‐processing sectors globally. This paper assesses changes in rice and paddy prices, and processing margins during the COVID‐19 pandemic shock through the lens of rice mills in Myanmar. Our data, collected through...

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Capital concentration in and through class differentiation: A case study from Pampean agribusiness

Christin Bernhold, Tomás Palmisano

Journal of Agrarian Change > 22 > 2 > 341 - 361

The National Agricultural Census (NAC) held in Argentina in 2018 shows that the concentration and centralization of agrarian capital in this country's heartland of grain and oilseed production is an ongoing process. An extensive academic literature has attributed this trend to the dynamics of capitalist development in agriculture in general and to Argentina's political economy in particular. Tying...

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Curbing members' opportunism in first‐tier and federated agricultural marketing cooperatives

Miguel Hernández‐Espallardo, Narciso Arcas‐Lario, Jorge L. Sánchez‐Navarro, Gustavo Marcos‐Matás

Agribusiness > 38 > 1 > 195 - 219

Agricultural marketing cooperatives are of panoramic socioeconomic importance. As owners, decision‐makers, and suppliers, their members' opportunism is of great concern to their competitiveness. In this study, we analyze sthe impact of governance mechanisms on opportunism. We explore the nonlinear effects and differences between the memberships of first‐tier cooperatives and federated cooperatives...

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Producing industrial pigs in southwestern China: The rise of contract farming as a coevolutionary process

Qian Forrest Zhang, Hongping Zeng

Journal of Agrarian Change > 22 > 1 > 97 - 117

The literature on contract farming (CF) has to date focused on how outside capital uses CF to vertically integrate non‐capitalist producers into agro‐industrial value chains. We argue that in places where multiple dynamics of capitalist growth co‐exist, CF relationships can also emerge between different types of capitalist producers that are already in capitalist production using other organizational...

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Migration and the reconfiguration of rural places: The accommodation of difference in Odemira, Portugal

Maria Lucinda Fonseca, Alina Esteves, Luís Moreno

Population, Space and Place > 27 > 8 > n/a - n/a

International migration reconfigures rural places by engaging localities with globalising forces. Accommodating newcomers, be they farming labourers or lifestyle migrants is a challenge at the local level due to the clash of interests, different visions on how the land should be managed and development promoted. Using Odemira as a case study, the paper has two goals: to show the change brought about...

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Rethinking rural‐urban linkages: Villages and agribusiness in the Ecuadorian Highlands

Luciano Martínez Valle

Journal of Agrarian Change > 21 > 4 > 854 - 869

This article addresses current linkages between rural villages and agribusiness in two rural territories in the Ecuadorian highlands. It seeks to analyse rural space endogenously or “from the inside” in order to highlight the socio‐economic changes that have been generated in rural villages embedded in territories dominated by agribusiness. These changes correspond not only to the capitalist dynamics...

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Off‐farm employment in aquaculture: A case study of New England's oyster growers

Avery Cole, Xuan Chen

Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie > 69 > 3 > 369 - 382

Global aquaculture markets have experienced a great deal of recent success. However, growers are still highly susceptible to risks caused by seasonality, interannual variability in earnings, and environmental factors. As a result, we see growers turning to alternative sources of income, and participating in off‐farm labor. We utilize a series of zero‐inflated count models to examine the relationship...

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Factors influencing value-addition agricultural choice within smallholder farming agribusinesses of Gauteng Province in South Africa

T. Melembe, G.M. Senyolo, V.M. Mmbengwa

Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development > 2021 > 2[60]

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Global agri‐food chains in times of COVID‐19: The state, agribusiness, and agroecology in Argentina

Carla Gras, Valeria Hernández

Journal of Agrarian Change > 21 > 3 > 629 - 637

The issues posed by the unfolding impacts of COVID‐19 are very uneven in the case of Argentina, a major global commodity exporter. As domestic food prices have continued to rise, worsening the living conditions of millions, and state policies seek to guarantee the population's access to food, the hegemonic agribusiness sector is fostering new alliances to strengthen its integration into global agri‐food...

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Still an Awkward Class: Central European post-peasants at home and abroad in the era of neoliberalism

Factors influencing the profit and choice of agribusiness for agricultural cooperatives in Thailand

Exporting decision of agricultural firms: The role of foreign direct investment

Role of market participation on smallholder vegetable farmers' wellbeing: Evidence from matching approach in Eastern India

Effect of subsidies on farms' exit decision

Rural Mobilisation and Agrarian Political Economy in Argentina, 2001–2020

Determinants of small farmers' participation in contract farming in developing countries: A study in Vietnam

Opportunities in farming research from an operations management perspective

“Keep a sinking boat afloat”: Class contradictions in a nascent shrimp farmers' cooperative in South China

Do smaller chicken farms use more antibiotics? Evidence of antibiotic diffusion from Nigeria

Effectiveness of nutritional information in increasing demand for enriched yoghurt among poor households in Kenya: Implications for agribusiness marketing strategies

Food prices, processing, and shocks: Evidence from rice and COVID‐19

Capital concentration in and through class differentiation: A case study from Pampean agribusiness

Curbing members' opportunism in first‐tier and federated agricultural marketing cooperatives

Producing industrial pigs in southwestern China: The rise of contract farming as a coevolutionary process

Migration and the reconfiguration of rural places: The accommodation of difference in Odemira, Portugal

Rethinking rural‐urban linkages: Villages and agribusiness in the Ecuadorian Highlands

Off‐farm employment in aquaculture: A case study of New England's oyster growers

Factors influencing value-addition agricultural choice within smallholder farming agribusinesses of Gauteng Province in South Africa

Global agri‐food chains in times of COVID‐19: The state, agribusiness, and agroecology in Argentina

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