Concerns about better managing the world's agricultural resources while minimizing detrimental environmental impacts have been sparked by the growing global population demand and the requirement to increase agricultural production. Managing diminishing and finite resources requires knowledge...

The present volume is the collection of the conference papers presented on The 12th International Symposium Agricultural economics and rural development. Realities and perspectives for Romania, organized by The Research Institute for Agrarian Economy and Rural Development during 17 November 2021...

This study replicates the paper "Brown, J. P., Lambert, D. M., & Wojan, T. R. (2019). The effect of the conservation reserve program on rural economies: deriving a statistical verdict from a null finding. American Journal of Agricultural Economics , 101 (2), 528-540" and their procedure for...

Chapter 1: Brazil, the Agricultural Giant -- Chapter 2: The Return of Getúlio Vargas and Agricultural Development, 1951-54 -- Chapter 3: “50 Years in Five” and the Reorientation of Brazilian Agriculture -- Chapter 4: Agricultural Politics and Institutional Ferment, 1961-1964 -- Chapter 5:...

Chapter 1: The Brazilian Agricultural Reform Movement -- Chapter 2: Agricultural Diversification and U.S. Ties: The Technicians -- Chapter 3: The Range Cattle Industry -- Chapter 4: The Great War and Increased Production, 1914-1919 -- Chapter 5: The U.S. Role in Promoting Increased Production --...

Chapter 1. Climate Trends in Senegal -- Chapter 2. Predicted Cereal Production in Senegal for 2050 and 2080 -- Chapter 3. Alternatives and Robustness Analysis -- Chapter 4. Resulting Impact of Climate Change on Child Malnutrition -- Chapter 5. Policy Issues, Climate Risks, and Financialization...

As China’s economic growth slows down and the pressure of the economic downward increases gradually, the agricultural and rural economic development faces more serious challenges. Fortunately, thanks to the China’s rural land certification, it guarantees the security and stability of...

Greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation measures are currently being implemented in the agricultural sector across the globe. Questions have been raised about the distributional and spatial impacts of agricultural emissions mitigation policies, especially at the local level. This study examines the...

Literature on farm productivity and efficiency was reviewed using a scoping review methodology, focusing on studies that have included risk and risk management tools within the stochastic frontier analysis in agricultural economics. This study contributes to investigating the methods used to...

The present dissertationis devoted to the issue of price discovery in agricultural markets. Price discovery is considered one of the central functions of financial markets and is usually analyzed empirically for highly homogeneous assets traded on these markets. We investigate whether this...

Chapter 1 Lenin’s Theory of the “American Path” and Russian/Soviet Capitalist Agriculture -- Chapter 2 The “American Path” and the Global Hegemony of U.S. Capitalist Agriculture -- Chapter 3 The “Prussian” Path, Militarism, and Late Capitalist Agriculture -- Chapter 4 The...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Producers -- Chapter 3. Consumers -- Chapter 4. Dealing with Externalities -- Chapter 5. Food Policies and Prices -- Chapter 6. Food Trade -- Chapter 7. Databases and Their Potential -- Chapter 8. Research Approaches -- Chapter 9. Concluding remark.

1 Food Securty – Definition, Scope and Influencing Factors -- 2 Regional and National Institutional and Policy Support for Food Security -- 3 The State of Food Security in the Caribbean -- 4 Food Availability in the Caribbean -- 5 Food Access in the Caribbean -- 6 Food Utilization in the...

Introduction -- Intergenerational Transformation of Empirical Research in Economics -- Implementing Empirical Economics into Policymaking -- Challenges in Empirical Research in Economics: The Way Forward -- The Next Generation of Empirical Labor Economics -- Past and Future of Empirical...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Individual choices: explaining food consumption and production -- Chapter 3: Societal outcomes: predicting food market prices and quantities -- Chapter 4: Social welfare: evaluating change in food market outcomes -- Chapter 5: Market power: when innovation,...

"Agriculture has been critical in the development of the American economy. Except in parts of the western United States, water access has not been a critical constraint on agricultural productivity, but with climate change, this may no longer be the case. This volume highlights new research on...

New methods and applications in Macroeconomics -- New methods and applications in Microeconomics -- New methods and applications in International Economics -- New methods and applications in Agricultural Economics -- New methods and applications in Financial Economics -- New methods and...