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Three essays on entrepreneurship theory and practice
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation investigates entrepreneurship theory through the perspective of empirical study, case study, and the history of economic thought. The ...
The cooperative provision of ecosystem services in agriculture
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Managing agricultural lands to provide ecosystem services (ES), such as natural pollination, may be essential for the long-term sustainability of agriculture. Most agricultural lands, however, are managed for the short-term ...
Program attributes that impact a farmer's willingness-to-accept participation in a high oleic soybean (hos) segregation program : a choice experiment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
HOS need to be segregated from commodity grain at the farm and through the rest of the food chain so that high oleic soybeans and oils do not get commingled with their bulk counterpart. Production on farm is typically ...
A sustainable livelihood resource evaluation of communities that participated in a livestock development project a decade ago
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
Livestock projects are a popular type of development activity to provide resources that farmers can use to positively change their livelihoods. Recently NGOs have been moving towards more holistic approaches of monitoring ...
Three essays on trade credit theory and empirical evidence from agro-food firms in Africa and United States
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] In a quest to understand the motives for use of trade credit in inter-firm trade, many theories have been put forward. The empirical literature on trade ...
Three essays in natural resource-led development and economic growth
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation is comprised of three independent studies in empirical growth and natural resource-led development. Chapter 2 presents a cross-country ...
Three essays on economic growth and the environment: A comparative analysis of developed and developing countries
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Technical analysis of evolving farm organization
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
In the 20th century, some farm organizations have evolved to include more separation of ownership and control, formality, and complexity. We examine propositions of existing theory on the effects to farm success and farm ...