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Prices, Products, and People : Analyzing Agricultural Markets in Developing Countries / ed. by Gregory J. Scott.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2023]Copyright date: ©1995Description: 1 online resource (520 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781555876098
  • 9781685857929
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Foreword -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Agricultural Marketing Research in Developing Countries: Old Tasks and New Challenges -- Part 1 Field Methods -- 1 Rapid Reconnaissance Methods for Diagnosis of Sub-Sector Limitations: Maize in Paraguay -- 2 Using Rapid Appraisal to Examine Coarse Grain Processing and Utilization in Mali -- 3 The Policy Analysis Matrix Applied to Agricultural Commodity Markets -- 4 A Multi-Product Sub-Sector Study in Rwanda -- 5 Methods for Evaluating the Market Potential of Processed Products -- Part 2 Field Methods -- 6 Field Methods for Exploring the Role of Indigenous Rural Periodic Markets in Developing Countries -- 7 Wall-to-Wall Fieldwork: Secondary Data Collection for Food Systems Research -- 8 Field and Analytical Methods for Agricultural Commercialization Studies: Guatemala -- 9 Industrial Organization and Market Analysis: Fish Marketing -- 10 Socioeconomic Methods for the Study of Input Markets: Seed Potato in Argentina -- Part 3 Analytical Methods -- 11 A Primer on Marketing Channels and Margins -- 12 Using Microcomputer Spreadsheets for Spatial and Temporal Price Analysis: An Application to Rice and Maize in Ecuador -- 13 Efficiency and Complexity: Distributive Margins and the Profits of Market Enterprises -- 14 Analyzing Market Integration -- 15 Pricing Conduct of Spatially Differentiated Markets -- Part 4 Analytical Methods -- 16 A Financial Model for the Implementation and Evaluation of Small-Scale Agro-Enterprises -- 17 Markets, Transaction Costs, and Selectivity Models in Economic Development -- 18 Measuring Welfare Benefits from Marketing Improvements: Potato Storage in Tunisia -- 19 Spatial Equilibrium Models in Agricultural Marketing Research: A Simplified Exposition -- 20 Programming Models: Potential Applications to Agricultural Marketing Research -- 21 Equilibrium Displacement Modelling: An Application to Indonesian Food Price Policy -- Index -- About the Book and Editor -- Errata
Summary: The authors offer a series of applied methods, amply illustrated with research results, for data collection and analysis related to agricultural marketing in developing countries.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Foreword -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Agricultural Marketing Research in Developing Countries: Old Tasks and New Challenges -- Part 1 Field Methods -- 1 Rapid Reconnaissance Methods for Diagnosis of Sub-Sector Limitations: Maize in Paraguay -- 2 Using Rapid Appraisal to Examine Coarse Grain Processing and Utilization in Mali -- 3 The Policy Analysis Matrix Applied to Agricultural Commodity Markets -- 4 A Multi-Product Sub-Sector Study in Rwanda -- 5 Methods for Evaluating the Market Potential of Processed Products -- Part 2 Field Methods -- 6 Field Methods for Exploring the Role of Indigenous Rural Periodic Markets in Developing Countries -- 7 Wall-to-Wall Fieldwork: Secondary Data Collection for Food Systems Research -- 8 Field and Analytical Methods for Agricultural Commercialization Studies: Guatemala -- 9 Industrial Organization and Market Analysis: Fish Marketing -- 10 Socioeconomic Methods for the Study of Input Markets: Seed Potato in Argentina -- Part 3 Analytical Methods -- 11 A Primer on Marketing Channels and Margins -- 12 Using Microcomputer Spreadsheets for Spatial and Temporal Price Analysis: An Application to Rice and Maize in Ecuador -- 13 Efficiency and Complexity: Distributive Margins and the Profits of Market Enterprises -- 14 Analyzing Market Integration -- 15 Pricing Conduct of Spatially Differentiated Markets -- Part 4 Analytical Methods -- 16 A Financial Model for the Implementation and Evaluation of Small-Scale Agro-Enterprises -- 17 Markets, Transaction Costs, and Selectivity Models in Economic Development -- 18 Measuring Welfare Benefits from Marketing Improvements: Potato Storage in Tunisia -- 19 Spatial Equilibrium Models in Agricultural Marketing Research: A Simplified Exposition -- 20 Programming Models: Potential Applications to Agricultural Marketing Research -- 21 Equilibrium Displacement Modelling: An Application to Indonesian Food Price Policy -- Index -- About the Book and Editor -- Errata

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The authors offer a series of applied methods, amply illustrated with research results, for data collection and analysis related to agricultural marketing in developing countries.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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