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While this book presents the results of comprehensive and
cooperative international reseirch, this effort would not have been
successful without the assistance of various institutions and
personalities. Financial support for the conference was received
from the Volkswagen Foundation, Germany, and the Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) which is gratefully acknowledged. The
Deutsche Ralffeisenverband kindly contributed to hosting the
international group of researchers in Bonn. For their valuable
comments we also thank: Uwe Eiteljorge, Johannes Jutting, Amim
Kuhn, Witold-Roger Poganietz, Matin Qaim, Alexandra Schleier,
Ludwig Striewe, Jllrgen Wandel, Peter Weingarten, Manfred Wiebelt
and Susanna Wolf. The editors also acknowledge the help provided by
James Creed, Karin Clark, and Ulla Knodt in checking language and
style of the articles, most of them written by non-native speakers.
Martin Grub, Tina Klebsch, and Andrea Stang have been helpful in
providing technical assistance needed to prepare the manuscript.
Bonn Peter Wehrheim Eugenia V. Serova Moscow Halle/Saale Klaus
Frohberg Bonn Joachim von Braun January 2000 x Russia's Agro-food
Sector: Towards Truly Functioning Markets Wehrheim, P., E. V.
Serova, K. Frohberg, and J. von Braun (eds.) Kluwer Academic
Publishers, pp. 1 - 8 SECTION 1 Introduction and Overview Peter
Wehrheim, Eugenia V. Serova, Klaus Frohberg, and Joachim von Braun
1. INTRODUCTION This publication takes a close look at the
agro-food economy in Russia.
Agriculture seems to be a difficult sector to manage for most
governments. Developing countries face tough dilemmas in deciding
on appropriate price poli eies to stimulate food production and
maintain stable, preferably low, prices for poor consumers.
Governments in developed countries face similar difficult deci
sions. They are called upon to give income guarantees to farmers
whose incomes are unstable and relatively low when compared to
those in the nonagricultural sector. These guarantees often lead to
ever-increasing budgetary outlays and unwanted agricultural
surpluses. High prices make new investments and the application of
new technologies more attractive than world prices warrant, and a
process is set in motion where technological innovation attains
amomenturn of its own, in turn requiring price policies that
maintain their rates of return. Surpluses are disposed of with
subsidies in domestic markets or in the international market. Price
competition reduces the market share of other exporters, who may be
efficient producers, unless they are willing to engage in subsidy
competition. This lowers export earnings and farm incomes or
depletes the public resources of developing countries that export
competing products. Retaliatory measures have led to frictions and
further distortions of world prices. Every so orten the major
agricultural exporters - the USA, the EC, Aus tralia, or Canada -
accuse one another of unfair intervention. Though they have agreed
to discuss agricultural trade liberalization under GATT
negotiations, if anything, the expenditure on farm support has
continued to increase in both the EC and the USA."
While this book presents the results of comprehensive and
cooperative international reseirch, this effort would not have been
successful without the assistance of various institutions and
personalities. Financial support for the conference was received
from the Volkswagen Foundation, Germany, and the Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) which is gratefully acknowledged. The
Deutsche Ralffeisenverband kindly contributed to hosting the
international group of researchers in Bonn. For their valuable
comments we also thank: Uwe Eiteljorge, Johannes Jutting, Amim
Kuhn, Witold-Roger Poganietz, Matin Qaim, Alexandra Schleier,
Ludwig Striewe, Jllrgen Wandel, Peter Weingarten, Manfred Wiebelt
and Susanna Wolf. The editors also acknowledge the help provided by
James Creed, Karin Clark, and Ulla Knodt in checking language and
style of the articles, most of them written by non-native speakers.
Martin Grub, Tina Klebsch, and Andrea Stang have been helpful in
providing technical assistance needed to prepare the manuscript.
Bonn Peter Wehrheim Eugenia V. Serova Moscow Halle/Saale Klaus
Frohberg Bonn Joachim von Braun January 2000 x Russia's Agro-food
Sector: Towards Truly Functioning Markets Wehrheim, P., E. V.
Serova, K. Frohberg, and J. von Braun (eds.) Kluwer Academic
Publishers, pp. 1 - 8 SECTION 1 Introduction and Overview Peter
Wehrheim, Eugenia V. Serova, Klaus Frohberg, and Joachim von Braun
1. INTRODUCTION This publication takes a close look at the
agro-food economy in Russia.
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Agri-food Chain Relationships (Hardcover)
Luis Albisu; Edited by Christian Fischer; Contributions by Peter Batt; Edited by Monika Hartmann; Contributions by Miroslava Bavorova, …
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Against the background of global market liberalization, increasing
consumer awareness and concerns and the spreading of complex
technology, new ways to produce, distribute and consume food are
evolving. The organization of agricultural production and
distribution systems need to adapt, including the development and
maintenance of sustainable business relationships between farmers,
food processors and grocery retailers. While agricultural value
chains have been promoted for decades, more attention is needed on
how to enable economic agents to develop lasting relationships and
trust within value chains. Using qualitative and quantitative
empirical results, Agri-food Chain Relationships offers an insight
into the sustainability of current agribusiness relationships and
discusses how these may be improved. Theoretical foundations for
analysing agri-food chain relations are considered alongside case
studies of different countries, food chains and chain stages
regarding the issues of sustainable relationships and trust.
Tanzania depends exclusively on imports for its oil requirements.
The country's dependency on oil imports has made it very vulnerable
to increases in world oil prices and local oil demand. For
instance, due to the increase in demand and prices the value of the
country's oil imports rose from US$ 400.3 million in 2003 to US$
1.1 billion in 2005. Therefore, it is obvious that the cost of
importing oil is a heavy burden for the country's economy. This
study is an attempt to contribute towards the knowledge base
regarding the feasibility of producing biofuels in the Tanzania so
as to reduce the country's dependence on oil imports. The results
show that ethanol can be produced in the country for as low as US$
0.276 per litre by using sugarcane as a feedstock. Moreover, the
results show that ethanol produced in the country can compete with
traditional fossil petrol if world oil prices would not fall below
US$ 30 a barrel. Since the world oil price is well above US$ 30 a
barrel, then it can be concluded that ethanol can be produced
competitively in Tanzania. Moreover, the results show that the
production of biodiesel would require the world oil price to be at
least US$ 60 a barrel.
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