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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 production of food, fiber...
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)
agency costs in separated ownership and control farm production. Using Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS) data, structural equation modeling and stochastic frontier analysis, we found evidence that separated ownership and control farms had...
Three essays on entrepreneurship theory and practice
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
sector. Its implications apply to the agricultural sector in general, especially how to transform it from being dispersed, small-scale, labor-intensive to being large-scale, capital-intensive, and how to organize agricultural organizations efficiently...
Are structural changes in the agri-food sector causing the instability of parochial ag-producers?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Parochial (Amish and Mennonites) agriculture producers have been known for their stability (historically large numbers) (Kollmorgen, 1943). Though, more recently, the percentage of parochial members who are ag-producers has been steadily declining...
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 ...
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 ...
Using Friedman to understand the relationship between market competition and corporate social performance
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
The Corporate Social Performance (CSP) literature focuses on the relationship between financial performance and social performance of firms. Although the literature recognizes a positive relationship between these two ...
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 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 ...