The study analyzed the relationship between climate change, bank credit, and cereal production in Kenya based on quarterly data covering the period 2000-2023 using autoregressive distributed lag approach. The study used CO2 emissions, average precipitation, and average temperature as indicators...

The overall adaptation level and mechanisms of grain production to climate change are estimated using national rural fixed observation points data. Adaptive behaviors have alleviated 52.5 ​%-63.5 ​% of the adverse impacts of high temperatures, with rice and maize more adaptable than wheat....

This report reviews lessons learned from public stock management in developing countries with a long history of using them. It draws insights from the existing literature and the background studies prepared for this report on Bangladesh, India, the Philippines, and Uzbekistan in Asia; Ghana,...

This study utilizes micro-level farm panel data from 2007 to 2012 to measure the technical efficiency of grain production among farms using a stochastic frontier analysis model. Additionally, it employs a two-way fixed effects model to empirically investigate the impact of fiscal support for...

This paper assesses the impact of the Black Sea Grain Initiative on the grain futures market. We rely on counterfactual evaluation techniques and detailed futures price series to estimate how corn and wheat futures prices and historical volatility responded to the Grain Deal enforcement,...

This research delves into the underlying impacts of farmers' innovative entrepreneurship on agricultural and rural economic development in China, adopting a dynamic and spatio-temporal perspective. The study utilizes panel data encompassing 30 provinces (cities and autonomous regions) from 2015...

The widespread application of data technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things plays an important role in promoting agricultural technology innovation. This article uses the 2022 survey data of farmers' economic behaviour in Hubei Province, China to...

This study aimed to analyze the obstacles to lowering demurrage at a grain terminal. After conducting in-depth interviews with working-level staff in grain terminal, 12 factors were selected to derive key factors for reducing demurrage. The Consistent Fuzzy Preference Relations methodology,...

Improving sorghum adoption rate by developing adapted varieties that meet end-user preferences is a major challenge in West Africa. In this study, a participatory rural appraisal was undertaken to identify the main sorghum production constraints, farmers’ preferred traits and their perceptions...

This paper analyzes 30+ years of county data including soil, weather, and yield of corn provided by Seong Do Yun and Benjamin M Gramig. With the prevalent rise in organic agriculture, ruralities slowly suffer from less optimized crop growth. The paper depicts the use of a polynomial regression...

Mechanization is expanding rapidly in developing countries. However, long-term use of agricultural machinery is projected to result in additional carbon emissions. Actually, major changes in mechanized production have already occurred, affecting agricultural systems' environmental performance....

This is a replication of Mayshar et al. (2022) (henceforth MMP).1 The article posits that the state (defined as societal hierarchy such as tax-levying elites) originated from cultivation of appropriable cereal grains, contrary to the conventional theory that the state originated from increased...

The conflict between Ukraine and Russia raises several questions and uncertainty about the cereal supply chain and market trends. This international crisis and other factors influencing the market, such as the environmental and climate ones, have placed greater attention on Italy's dependence on...

"High in the Peruvian altiplano, 13,000 feet above sea level, quinoa's rise to global stardom was pitched as an unparalleled sustainable development opportunity that heralded a brighter future for rural communities devastated by decades of rural-urban migration, civil war, and state neglect....

Starting in the 1930s, commercial hybrid corn seeds rapidly replaced the once predominant open-pollinated varieties planted by farmers. By the mid-1950s almost all corn grown in the United States was of hybrid varieties. Observers have argued that the drought tolerant qualities of these hybrids...

This study examined the effects of research-based recommended cereal production practices on the technical efficiency of farm households based on household-level data generated from questionnaire surveys, focus group discussions, and key informant interviews. The technical efficiency scores were...

New production from public and exclusive varieties released by the small grains breeding program at Virginia Tech generated cumulative discounted benefits of $41 million from 2000 to 2018. Fitted yields from field trials were combined with acreage estimates to generate weighted average yields...

China reached the Lewis turning point in the first decade of the twenty-first century. While the impact of increasing wages was insignificant in the pre-Lewis turning point era, its negative impact on agriculture may be substantial in the post-Lewis turning point era. By analyzing a theoretical...

Ethiopian economy relies on Agriculture, but it is highly dependent on rainfall. Rainfall is highly varying spatially and temporally affecting cropping pattern and productivity. Drought incidences and prolonged dry days during crop growing season are the leading challenges of agricultural...