The important contribution to agricultural science by A.D. Thaer and J.H.v. Thünen is not a question that needs to be argued. This paper aims not only to survey the historical studies of these classics using quite new information after the reunion of the two Germanies, but also to discuss the...

Majority of the studies on low-wage levels in Tohoku, Japan have been focusing on the analysis of part-time non-farming jobs for males. On the other hand, some former studies have analyzed the full-time non-farming jobs for males in Tohoku and also indicate low-wage levels in these cases. The...

We use the term “2E2F Crisis” to refer to the global crisis involving the environment, energy, food, and financial systems. The purpose of this research is to discuss the contents and characteristics of the food crisis that constitutes part of the 2E2F Crisis, and to present a framework for...

This report tried to locate world food production in world history. The situation in which the food production found itself changed greatly in the 20th century. Food production in the world increased in the latter half of the 20th century. Not only grain production but also meat production...

Majority of the studies on low-wage levels in Tohoku, Japan have been focusing on the analysis of part-time non-farming jobs for males. On the other hand, some former studies have analyzed the full-time non-farming jobs for males in Tohoku and also indicate low-wage levels in these cases. The...

If agricultural drainage from an area imposes costs on society through damaging the environment, and if the measurement of the drainage discharged from each plot in the area is too costly, then it may be necessary to control the drainage by regulating the irrigation tariffs levied on...

This paper measures the gross stock of capital of cultivators and tractors in Japanese agriculture during the period from 1975 to 2000, with special focus on the quality changes. The physical stock value method is applied, taking the quality difference of the stock produced in various years into...

Due to a smaller number of exporting countries and a larger number of importing countries in international food trade caused by continuous tariff reduction under the WTO (World Trade Organization) system, the recent grain prices are more responsive to changes in supply-demand balance. Moreover,...

At the microeconomic level, in predominantly agrarian society of Nigeria where majority of the farmers are poor and unable to obtain insurance, price and production shocks would have adverse impact on growth and development. Particularly, there is a growing concern that current levels of rice...