Using descriptive and quantitative analyses of farming households drawn from the 2005 and 2010 censuses of agriculture, this study provides reference material for future efforts to support agriculture and agricultural communities. Despite some data limitations for a few municipalities, several...

Food education has attracted growing concern focusing on appropriate dietary habits amid the deterioration of many aspects of health in this industrial society. For this purpose, a self-motivating type of food policy framework is expected to increase in significance. Under such a self-motivating...

In the new market and regulatory environment of the post-crisis, central counterparties need to find the right balance between ensuring the safety of their business and avoiding creating additional distress in the market in the form of procyclical margin calls. However, balancing these...

Using data for the Philippines and Sri Lanka during the last five decades, the authors examine three phases of agricultural development experienced by the rice sector in insular countries in tropical monsoon Asia; the first was based on land opening, the second on new irrigation construction and...

Yamamoto, H.: Introduction. Yamamoto, H.: Marketization of the Chinese economy and reform of the grain distribution system. Kako, T. ; Zhang J. : Problems concerning grain production and distribution in China. The case of Heilongjiang Province. Wang T. ; Maruyama, A. ; Kikuchi, M.: Rural-urban...