Agriculture and forestry have been the mainstay of Virginia economy, contributing about $80 billion annually to the economy. The changing demography of consumers and advances in technology have facilitated a paradigm shift in food and retail sales. This study focuses on understanding and...

Researchers and practitioners of precision agricultural technology have worked to overcome adoption, cost, and environmental obstacles since its introduction. The next gap in the adoption continuum of profitable precision agricultural technologies is data and data use, the so-called Big Data....

The objective of this article is to evaluate in what extend the comparative advantages of the biofuel feedstock of Latin American and Caribbean countries explain their biofuel policies. To achieve this goal, we analyze current biofuel policies of four major economies of the region – Argentina,...

This paper explores the relationship between migration and agricultural productivity in Ethiopia. Given that there are fairly significant returns to either rural-urban or international migration for labor in Ethiopia, it could be that credit constraints hindering migration start-up are an...

Foreign investment can provide a flow of capital into Australian agriculture and has played an important role meeting the shortfalls in domestic savings throughout Australia’s history. Despite the political and media attention on foreign investment in agriculture, there is little knowledge...

Kutatásunk célkitűzése az alternatív kompozit indikátorok alkalmazási lehetőségeinek és ezek határainak vizsgálata. Milyen kapcsolatban vannak egymással és mennyiben képesek helyettesíteni a GDP-t, milyen tanulságok fogalmazhatóak meg. Kutatásunk alapkérdése, hogy...

Tanulmányomban Románia főbb társadalmi és gazdasági makromutatóinak elemzését végzem el. Foglalkozom a 2009-ben begyűrűző válság jellemzőivel, ágazati sajátosságaival és a stabilizációra vonatkozó intézkedésekkel. Kutatómunkámhoz a regionális gazdaságtan területi...

The economic performance of a country is clearly influenced by the facility of the local environment, the resources, infrastructure, and market conditions of the local areas. The importance of the development of the local economic is indisputable. There are 94 sub-regions which are...