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Farm Investment and Off-Farm Income - A Study of Farms in Alabama
(2008-09-09)
This thesis examines the effect of availability of internal finance, net farm income, and net off-farm household income on farm investment. It presents a detailed review of previous studies, develops and estimates an ...
Understanding Small and Medium Scale Tilapia Culture in Nicaragua
(2008-09-09)
Nicaragua has abundance of natural resources to make aquaculture an important economic activity. But despite the efforts of multiple stakeholders, tilapia culture has not developed as expected. Small and medium scale tilapia ...
Vertical Integration in the Food Manufacturing Industry, 1967-1992
(2008-09-09)
This study uses Ordinary Least Squares (OLS), fixed effects, and random effects models to test the relationship between vertical integration and concentration ratios, demand growth, average firm size, and total factor ...
Social Capital, Cultural Capital, and the Racial Divide: Community Development Through Art in Alabama's Black Belt
(2008-09-09)
In a changing economy, rural communities must seek new economic strategies to remain viable. This is especially true in Alabama’s Black Belt, a region of persistent poverty, rural isolation, and racial segregation. This ...
Heir Property: Legal and Cultural Dimensions of Collective Landownership in Alabama's Black Belt
(2008-09-09)
When a landowner dies without a will, his or her descendents inherit the property as a communal interest. Heir property, as it is often called, is a common form of landownership among African Americans in the rural South. ...
Property Value Impacts and Risks Perceptions: A Hedonic Analysis of Anniston, Alabama
(2008-09-09)
The city of Anniston, and to a larger extent Calhoun County, Alabama, has been affected by two major types of environmental disamenities: polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) released into the soils and waterways, and the ...
Evaluating Access Barriers To Primary Health Care Services For Hispanic Residents in Toombs County, Georgia
(2008-09-09)
Latinos are no longer concentrated in “traditional” cities and states, like Los Angeles, Florida, and Texas, and the rural Latino population is rapidly increasing in number throughout many regions of the nation, mostly in ...
Linking Rural Vendors with Urban Public Markets: Institutional Constraints and Possibilities in the Evolution of Urban Food Systems
(2008-09-09)
Public Markets are a new food retailing phenomena located in major urban centers throughout North America, presenting a means for more directly linking urban consumers and rural food producers. However, the new vision of ...
Three Essays on International Trade
(2011-05-06)
This dissertation is composed of three essays. The first essay assesses the impact of agricultural support policies on refined sugar exports. A theoretically consistent gravity model is extended to include the spatial ...
Understanding the Role of Fish Farmer Organizations as Intermediaries for Aquacultural Development in Uganda
(2010-12-17)
Donor interest in the development of Sub-Saharan African aquaculture has shifted from the promotion of subsistence aquaculture to the support of small- to medium-scale commercial aquaculture enterprises with the hope of ...