, risk, credit-market imperfections and scale-economies associated with mechanization that small-scale farming is inefficient … minimum farm scale is 20 acres. …

protected investment. It offers two approaches for controlling investment arbitration related to intellectual property rights … requirements of investment arbitration. Rather, assessing IP as an investment must be done by referring to national laws. This is … a dispute arises from an investment (IP as an investment), it does not necessarily fall under the jurisdictional …

, where we observe lower agricultural activity and investment. At the same time, remittances received and welfare of rural …

rural Mexico to investigate the impact of remittances on agriculture and livestock investments. After controlling for the … whereas migration itself seems to be the superior investment option compared to other productive activities such as livestock …

realizations. We show that the forecasts significantly affect farmer investment decisions and that these responses account for a … the main instrument, that the return to agricultural investment depends substantially on the conditions under which it is …-invest, by a factor of three, when we compare actual levels of investments to the optimal investment level that maximizes …

agricultural investment, land valuation and access to credit in Tanzania. Results show that while there are no detectable effects … of formal, private land property rights (written documentation of ownership) on agricultural investment, land ownership …

minerals. However, the India-Africa relations in food and agriculture are already important but have potentials for expansion …. For complex reasons Africa had no transformation of its agriculture comparable to India's during its erstwhile Green …, especially as food systems and food value chains are modernizing and technologies in agriculture and food sectors are spreading …