Browsing Agricultural Economics electronic theses and dissertations (MU) by Thesis Semester "2017 Fall"
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Climate variation and corn price volatility : a partial equilibrium model
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)Projected future climate changes in the US Corn Belt provides motivation to study how these changes will affect the volatility of crop prices. Recent publications focused on how these changes in climate and climate variability ... -
Combating structural racialization in the agriculture industry : a case study of Hmong social capital and collective entrepreneurship in the Twin Cities, MN region
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)Throughout the United States, the agriculture industry has witnessed a demographic shift in its farming population- becoming older, more white, and dominated by men. It, therefore, is imperative that we seek to understand ... -
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 economics of water resources management in Nepal
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)First essay consists of two steps. First, Technical Efficiency (TE) index is estimated for upriver and downriver ecoregions employing DEA technique. In the second stage, we censored the TE index and run the Tobit regression ... -
Three essays on the idiosyncrasies of a perennial crop : the case of the US almond market
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)The United States (US) is the dominant global producer and exporter of almonds, and its exports are sensitive to both the supply and demand in other countries. In the first essay a proposed framework that captures supply ... -
Transaction costs and market thinness in crop byproduct markets
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)Studies in crop byproduct literature have looked more at the nutrient impacts, rather than analytical cost implications of crop byproducts in livestock feed rations. Thin market studies stated the lack of product volume ...