Download or read book Major Economic Forces Affecting Agriculture written by Siegfried V. Ciriacy-Wantrup and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Major Economic Forces Affecting Agriculture with Special Reference to California written by Siegried von Ciriacy-Waltrup and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Major Economic Forces Affecting Agriculture written by Siegfried von Ciriacy-Wantrup and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economics of Agricultural Development written by George W. Norton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-22 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The globalization of goods, services and capital for agriculture is fundamental to the future of developing countries and has major implications for the fight against poverty and sustainability of the environment. In recent years, agriculture has once again returned to a position of centre stage as food price volatility has led countries to re-examine their development strategies. This new edition of the essential textbook in the field builds on the 2006 original and reflects the following developments: the increased impact of climate change issues affecting agricultural markets such as bio-fuels, the rise in farm prices and energy costs the move to higher valued agricultural products The book contains a wealth of real world case studies and is now accompanied by a website that includes powerpoint lectures, a photo bank and a large set of discussion and exam questions. The accompanying website is available to view at http://ecagdev.agecon.vt.edu/
Download or read book The Politics of Food Supply written by William Winders and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with an important and timely issue: the political and economic forces that have shaped agricultural policies in the United States during the past eighty years. It explores the complex interactions of class, market, and state as they have affected the formulation and application of agricultural policy decisions since the New Deal, showing how divisions and coalitions within Southern, Corn Belt, and Wheat Belt agriculture were central to the ebb and flow of price supports and production controls. In addition, the book highlights the roles played by the world economy, the civil rights movement, and existing national policy to provide an invaluable analysis of past and recent trends in supply management policy.
Download or read book Economics of Agricultural Development written by George W. Norton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2010 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The globalization of goods, services and capital for agriculture is fundamental to the future of developing countries and has major implications for the fight against poverty and sustainability of the environment. In recent years, agriculture has once again returned to a position of centre stage as food price volatility has led countries to re-examine their development strategies. This new edition of the essential textbook in the field builds on the 2006 original and reflects the following developments: the increased impact of climate change issues affecting agricultural markets such as bio-fuels, the rise in farm prices and energy costs the move to higher valued agricultural products The book contains a wealth of real world case studies and is now accompanied by a website that includes powerpoint lectures, a photo bank and a large set of discussion and exam questions. The accompanying website is available to view at http://ecagdev.agecon.vt.edu/
Download or read book Socio economic Factors Influencing Agricultural Output written by Andrew B. Tench and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Distortions to Agricultural Incentives written by Kym Anderson and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume in the 'Distortions to Agricultural Incentives' series focus on distortions to agricultural incentives from a global perspective.
Download or read book Agricultural Economic Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Agriculture in an Unstable Economy written by Theodore William Schultz and published by New York, McGraw-Hill. This book was released on 1945 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prospective conditions affecting agriculture. Fundamentals of the agricultural problem in an expanding and fluctuating economy. Governmental programs and controls. Problems in agricultural policy.
Download or read book Economics of Research and Innovation in Agriculture written by Petra Moser and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-10-08 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The challenges facing agriculture are plenty. Along with the world's growing population and diminishing amounts of water and arable land, the gradual increase in severe weather presents new challenges and imperatives for producing new, more resilient crops to feed a more crowded planet in the twenty-first century. Innovation has historically helped agriculture keep pace with earth's social, population, and ecological changes. In the last 50 years, mechanical, biological, and chemical innovations have more than doubled agricultural output while barely changing input quantities. The ample investment behind these innovations was available because of a high rate of return: a 2007 paper found that the median ROI in agriculture was 45 percent between 1965 and 2005. This landscape has changed. Today many of the world's wealthier countries have scaled back their share of GDP devoted to agricultural R&D amid evidence of diminishing returns. Universities, which have historically been a major source of agricultural innovation, increasingly depend on funding from industry rather than government to fund their research. As Upton Sinclair wrote of the effects industry influences, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." In this volume of the NBER Conference Report series, editor Petra Moser offers an empirical, applied-economic framework to the different elements of agricultural R&D, particularly as they relate to the shift from public to private funding. Individual chapters examine the sources of agricultural knowledge and investigate challenges for measuring the returns to the adoption of new agricultural technologies, examine knowledge spillovers from universities to agricultural innovation, and explore interactions between university engagement and scientific productivity. Additional analysis of agricultural venture capital point to it as an emerging and future source of resource in this essential domain"--
Download or read book Introduction to Agricultural Economics written by John B. Penson and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative book will provide beginning students in agriculture with a systematic introduction to the basic concepts and issues in economics as they relate to a major segment of the US economy - the food and fiber industry. The coverage traces the major microeconomic and macroeconomic forces influencing the decisions of producers and consumers of food and fiber products. Outstanding features of this new book include the economic principles and practices affecting producers and consumers of food and fiber products; answers to the question "What is agricultural economics?" by defining the field of economics, and then developing a definition of agricultural economics based on the role that agricultural economists play at both the micro and macro levels; description of concepts in an easy-to-understand style supported by excellent graphical analysis; thorough coverage of international agricultural trade issues; a sound instructional framework in each chapter composed of chapter overviews, chapter summaries, definitions of key terms, references, and suggestions for further reading; addressing the entirety of the food and fiber industry; five chapters on the economics of agriculture; and a discussion on the impact of trade and the international aspects of agriculture.
Download or read book The Wealth of Waste written by J. T. Winpenny and published by Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). This book was released on 2010 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent times, the coalescence of different pressure has put a major strain on water supply globally. The level of water abstraction is reaching its natural limits, and this calls for a dramatic shift in water utilization concepts. This publication addresses the economic and financial issues and the methodology and procedures involved in the analysis of water recycling projects as part of a comprehensive water planning process. The issue is dealt within the wider context of water resources and covers human health, water quality, acceptability, institutional constraints, and other factors, all of which have economic implications and affect the feasibility of reuse schemes. The recycling of urban wastewater is a key link in Integrated Water Resource Management that can fulfill several different, but interrelated objectives. These are expressed as win-win propositions, delivering simultaneous benefits to farmers, cities and natural environmental systems, part of solutions to the urgent global problems of food, clean water, the safe disposal of waters and the protection of the vital aquatic ecosystems.
Download or read book Agricultural Change Environment and Economy written by Keith Hoggart and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1992 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the relationships between the development of agriculture, environmental conditions, and the character of national economies, synthesizing and comparing studies from the Third World, advanced capitalist economies, and Eastern Europe to distill fundamental patterns. Among the themes are the impact of production techniques on both agriculture and the environment, and how farm production processes are affected by factors in other areas of the economy and by political influences. Of interest to readers in development, farm policy, or economics. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Analysis of the Impact of Agricultural Sector on Economic Growth written by Divyam Mayawala and published by ProQuest. This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines contribution of agriculture to economic growth using a panel data of 71 countries for the period 1985-2004. In order to account for differences in the level of economic growth in the selected economies, the data was divided into three categories based on income: low, middle and high income. The result of ordinary least squares (OLS) regression analysis show that agriculture plays a positive role in economic growth in the low income and the middle income countries. In contrast, the role of agriculture is found to be insignificant in the high income countries. The results of fixed effects analysis also support the positive role of agriculture in growth in the low income countries. Together, these results suggest that the role of the agricultural sector changes from a dominant sector to a declining sector when a country moves from a low or middle income status to high income category. As suggested in past studies, this result could be explained by the observed higher productivity in the industrial sector compared to agricultural sector. These results recommend that agriculture development should be given higher priority in the development strategy of low and middle income countries. In addition to agriculture, the impact of social, economic and political factors on economic growth were also investigated. There is empirical evidence indicating that gross capital formation enhances economic growth in all the three national income categories. Futhermore, the results show that increase in exports leads to increase in economic growth. This can be explained based on increased market size leading to economies of scale, and increased competition leading to higher efficiency. In contrast, the evidence for the impact of higher fertility rate is mixed. While higher fertility rate deters economic growth in the middle income countries, it promotes economic growth in the high income countries. This study also highlights the importance of high life expectancy. The results show that higher life expectancy promotes economic growth in all the income groups which may be due to an indication of better health of the population. Also, the secondary school enrollment ratio variable was found to be positively related with growth. Finally, the study examines the influence of political institutional factors on economic growth. These factors are corruption, government stability and investment profile. As expected, the results show that corruption is negatively associated with growth in middle income and high income countries. Furthermore, the combined analysis of all the countries revealed that corruption deters growth. OLS regression and fixed effects analyses show that higher investment risk deters growth in the middle income countries. Surprisingly, the results showed that government instability is associated with economic growth in the middle and high income countries.
Download or read book The Political Economy of Agricultural Price Distortions written by Kym Anderson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite numerous policy reforms since the 1980s, farm product prices remain heavily distorted in both high-income and developing countries. This book seeks to improve our understanding of why societies adopted these policies, and why some but not other countries have undertaken reforms. Drawing on recent developments in political economy theories and in the generation of empirical measures of the extent of price distortions, the present volume provides both analytical narratives of the historical origins of agricultural protectionism in various parts of the world and a set of political econometric analyses aimed at explaining the patterns of distortions that have emerged over the past five decades. These new studies shed much light on the forces affecting incentives and those facing farmers in the course of national and global economic and political development. They also show how those distortions might change in the future.
Download or read book Farmer Behaviour Agricultural Management and Climate Change written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the broad range of factors driving farm management decisions that can improve the environment, including drawing on the experiences of OECD countries.
