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  • Analysis of the Philippine Chicken Industry: Commercial versus Backyard Sectors

    Hui-Shung Chang
    The chicken industry in the Philippines has diverse components. The commercial sector is characterized by large-scale, industrialized production systems of broilers and layers of exotic hybrids. On the other hand, the backyard sector is made up of many smallholders who keep a few native or crossbred...
    Volume 4 Issue No. 1 (June 2007)

  • Rural Poverty in Southeast Asia: Issues, Policies, and Challenges

    Arsenio M. Balisacan, Rosemarie G. Edillon, and Sharon Faye Piza
    Economic growth among Southeast Asian countries during the last 25 years has averaged at five percent per year and has been accompanied by a decline in the relative importance of agriculture in the national output and employment. The response of poverty to this growth and structural transformation...
    Volume 2 Issue No. 1&2 (December 2005)

  • Analyzing Supply Chains with Pluralistic and Agribusiness Systems Frameworks

    R.B. Murray-Prior, Sylvia Concepcion, P. Batt, M.F. Rola-Rubzen, M. McGregor, Eufemio Rasco, Larry Digal, Nerlita Manalili, Malou Montiflor, Luis Hualda, and Lorraine Migalbin
    Special problems arise when analyzing supply chains because of the complexity of the relationships in the system. In addressing this concern for a research project on a vegetable supply chain in Mindanao, the authors of this paper use a pluralistic methodology. A soft-systems framework was used to...
    Volume 1 Issue No. 2 (December 2004)

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