Quinoa production in Bolivia's southern Altiplano region takes place under some of the most severe agroecological conditions in the Andes. These include extreme altitude, scarce and variable rainfall, frequent frost, strong winds, and, more recently, widespread soil degradation. Organic soil...

The productivity of Indonesian agri-food, especially rice, has been declining over the last decade. A decreasing emphasis on technology innovation and dissemination has been cited as a possible cause of this problem. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) can play a crucial role in...

The recent trend of development policy makes emphasis on gender disparity in performance, especially in the agricultural sector whereby women partake and play a crucial role and their contribution to the sector cannot be overemphasized. However, the contention is whether such disparity in...

Long criticized, pluriactivity is now perceived as an alternative agricultural strategy and it is becoming a subject of support policies. However, having an off-farm job generates organizational issues that can penalize the viability of this strategy. In this paper, we study the initial...

In recent years, worldwide, increasing the professional training of farm managers has become vital in the context of the implementation of new technologies/production methods: professional training is a key component needed to face current and future challenges. New technologies, which pave the...

Small farms in the US have significant challenges in financial management. This study examines how small farmers undertake farm financial management to meet their agricultural and farm-related spending and expenses. Using primary survey data from Tennessee, the study investigates the factors...

"Forestry Economics introduces students and practitioners to the economics of managing forests and forest enterprises. The book adopts the approach of managerial economics textbooks and applies this to the unique problems and production processes faced by managers of forests and forest...

Deregulation is a widely suggested strategy to make agricultural markets efficient. In this article, we critically examine the recent reforms undertaken in India aiming to deregulate agricultural markets. Our analysis is from the perspective of the potential of market reforms to benefit farmers....

Die biologische Vielfalt in der Agrarlandschaft ist in Deutschland in den letzten Jahren, selbst in Naturschutzgebieten, stark zurückgegangen. In ihrer gemeinsamen Stellungnahme „Biodiversität und Management von Agrarlandschaften” geben die deutschen Wissenschaftsakademien Empfehlungen in...

This study focuses on Indian farming and the farming practices that will improve the financial performance of the farming community and the measures that can be taken to enhance the farm fields’ yields of Indian farmers. The study begins with the collection of statistics which are relevant to...

Using gender-disaggregated data on land operations from India, this paper contributes to the literature on agricultural feminization by showing a relationship between seasonal or short-term migration for work and feminization of farm management. Using a nationally representative data-set...

Policymakers often seek to integrate markets as a way to maximize social welfare. Prior research has examined the effect of market integration on social welfare (surplus) only at two extremes -- when the markets are fully integrated and when they are fully isolated. But there is scarce...

Agriculture sector has contributed 12.96% to the total GDP of the State in the year 2012-13. System of National Account considers only the economic benefits derived from the agricultural production but value of land asset is clearly ignored as non-productive. This is one of the several uses to...

Policy, administration and industry need medium-term projections of the expected developments in the agri-food markets for their decision-making processes. The EU Commission presents such projections for the EU as a whole in December of each year. Those projections and their assumptions...

1. --Cultivating a Regional Agroecology --2. --Capitalism and Sustainable Farming --3. --Beet Biology and the Nature of Labor --4. --Piedmont Sugar and the State of Science --5. -- TheEconomics of Mechanization and Watershed Engineering --6. --Building the Petrochemical Paradigm --7....