This paper offers a holistic framework for an adequate understanding of the concept and components of agri-food governance and for assessing its quality. Agri-food governance is defined as a complex system with five components: (1) agri-food and related agents, (2) means (rules, forms, and...

There are no book length treatments of spatial spillovers that provide theoretical and empirical analyses of this topic within different regions in the continent of Asia. As such, the primary objective of this book is to provide expansive studies of spatial spillovers and their salience by...

Climate change and environmental degradation constitute challenging and demanding issues that need mitigation and adaptation strategies and plans, as well as scientific research to test the causality between economic growth and pollution levels. From this viewpoint, the present theoretical...

This article is a response to a call for evidence from the UK Institute for Public Policy Research on "food and the recovery of nature, communities and livelihoods". It outlines recent research on the emergent practices of regenerative agriculture, concerning its agricultural, environmental and...

There are intense debates about the importance and quality of agri-food governance, which have not been passed in Bulgaria. There is no suitable translation for governance in the Bulgarian language, and many inaccurate terms are used such as managing, management, leadership, directing,...

Market integration serves as an important measure of market efficiency, particularly in relation to pricing efficiency. This paper investigates the nature and extent of market integration in Bangladesh by analyzing the most recent weekly rice market price data from six district markets between...

According to the Ministry of Finance, more than 40 percent of Pakistan’s GDP is attributed to the informal sector. Nearly 75 percent of Pakistan’s working-age population is employed in the informal sector, according to the Labour Force Survey (2020-2021). The widespread persistence of the...

This paper provides a dynamic model of the dual economy in which differences in productivity across sectors arise endogenously. Rather than relying on exogenous price distortions, duality arises because of differences between sectors in the separability of their fertility and labor decisions....

The author shows that although some short term factors have contributed to the recent food crisis in developing countries, the crisis is rooted mainly in agricultural support policies of developed countries, liberalization of the agricultural sector by developing countries and contradictions in...

Recent decades have seen major change in agricultural technologies as a consequence to various programs for an agricultural development in rural areas of Sabah. Villagers in Sabah have always been receptive to new agricultural technologies that promises to improve their standard of living and as...