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Sales-Weighted Online Agricultural Commodity Price Index: Using Sales and Price Data web-scraped from Online Grocery Stores in South Korea

Jinho Jung, Yong Jee Kim, Sanghyo Kim
ABSTRACT This study tries to develop a new type of consumer prices index by utilizing price and quantity data of food items collected daily from online grocery stores via web-scrapping, E-CPI. The E-CPI introduced in this study is developed by weighing prices by quantity sold collected for...
Country: Korea Topic: Agricultural e-commerce
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Food Desert, Purchasing Refugees, and Cooperatives in Rural Areas in South Korea

Namhoon Kim
ABSTRACT In this study, we present how cooperatives help the elderly in the "food desert" and how it runs businesses with lower profits. We introduce a special cooperative, Dong-Rak-Jeom-Bbang (hereafter DRJB) which runs the business in a small village in South Korea. The food desert is...
Country: Korea Topic: Rural development
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A Case Study of Korean Farmer’s Voluntary Participation in Greenhouse Gas Reduction Programs: Based on In-depth Interview

Jungyun Choi
ABSTRACT Climate change has affected the entire world. Without exception, the impacts of climate change are becoming evident across the Korean peninsula. In order to mitigate the impacts and damage caused by climate change, in particular, the Korean agricultural sector is required to play a more...
Country: Korea Topic: Eco-friendly agriculture (satoyama and satoumi)
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Does Crop Insurance Participation Influence Risk Balancing Behavior?: The Case of Korea

Youngjune Kim, Ji Yong Lee
ABSTRACT Crop insurance program becomes an important farm financial support for farm operators in Korea. Understanding behavior changes of farms in response to the participation in crop insurance program is critical to identify the ability of the policy to meet its goals. This study examines the...
Country: Korea Topic: Agricultural risk management
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Case Study on the Prediction of Soil Organic Carbon and Fertilizer Requirement Using Legacy Data in Korea

Chang-Hoon Lee, Seul-Bi Lee, Byung-Keun Hyun, Ouk-Kyu Han
ABSTRACT The Soil carbon 4 permille was launched to increase global soil organic matter stocks as a compensation for emission of greenhouse gases by anthropogenic sources. Specifically, soil organic carbon was treated as important due to soil productivity and soil health as well as carbon...
Country: Korea Topic: Agricultural science policies
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