This study presents risk assessment of natural disasters in the poor provinces in Northern Mountain of Vietnam. We construct an Aggregate Risk Index that is a composite index comprising of three separate components: the Hazard Potential Index, Hazard Exposure Index and Coping Capacity Index....

This study was designed to (1) understand consumer behavior for buying organic foods, (2) find out premium prices consumers pay for organic foods, and (3) identify reasons why consumers want to pay more for organic foods. A tri-partite information gathering process including review of...

In this paper, we show that traditional comparisons of Mean Squared Prediction Error (MSPE) between two competing forecasts may be highly controversial. This is so because when some specific conditions of efficiency are not met, the forecast displaying the lowest MSPE will also display the...

The Indian government has provided large subsidies to stimulate the take-off of the cold storage sector. However, the impact of this policy is not well understood. In a case study of the potato sector in Bihar, we find that there have been dramatic increases and rapid up-scaling of cold...

Introduction. As part of the National Agricultural Innovation Project (NAIP), a potato value chain study was organized in Bihar, in collaboration between the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) in Patna, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the International...

The causes of the failure of the neoclassical approach to the economic transition in the countries formerly belonging to the Soviet Union are analyzed at a general level and then in the specific case of agriculture in North Kazakhstan. Three dimensions of Soviet-type economic institutions...

The company SC TOMA LTD is wholly owned private capital company, created and operating under the Law 31/1990. The company is located in Modelu commune, Calarasi County having in operation currently an area of 360 hectares of arable land. The technology represents all methods and procedures used...

The income and consumption of the population are determined by the general evolution of the national economy, these know effects of the accession and post-accession processes of the country to the European Union. In this respect, in the present paper we proposed to study the evolution of the...

The performance of production structures in agriculture is determined by a complex of factors, the most important are: the natural potential of agricultural holdings, financial resources necessary to purchase inputs, ensuring balance in the allocation of factors of production, technical and...

The countryside is an available and eligible resource, with an unexploited growth potential for the exploitation of which is necessary to converge efforts of policy makers both at national level and in the Member States regarding the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of...