Published continuously since 1972, Agricultural Product Prices has become the standard textbook and reference work for students in agricultural and applied economics, buyers and sellers of commodities, and policymakers, clearly explaining conceptual and empirical models applicable to ......
Un Manuel Pour Les Entreprises Qui Construisent Des Chaines D'approvisionnement Durables (troisieme edition)
Ce manuel montre aux entreprises agroalimentaires comment developper des chaines d'approvisionnement plus durables, resilientes et productives et met en exergue l'impact substantiel de cette demarche sur le developpement.
The robustly updated eighth edition of the seminal textbook Introduction to Agricultural Economics provides students with a systematic overview to the fundamental economic concepts and issues within the U.S. food and fiber industry. The authors cover various aspects of both microeconomics and macroeconomics affecting the decisions of key industry ......
Introduction to Agricultural Economics presents students with a systematic introduction to essential economic concepts and issues within agriculture, reflecting on how microeconomic and macroeconomic forces shape production, marketing, and consumption of food and fiber products. The scope of the book extends beyond traditional farm management to ......
"There is an energizing boldness in this synthesis: the right big-picture questions aligning all the way down to the right complexities on the ground, and across the diverse territories that comprise contemporary Borneo. A manifesto for the kinds of cross-sectoral and applied research that can make the difference to the future of Borneo." ......
Agriculture, Iowa, and the Farm Crisis of the 1980s
Tucked into the files of Iowa State University's Cooperative Extension Service is a small, innocuous looking pamphlet with the title Lenders: Working through the Farmer-Lender Crisis. Cooperative Extension Service intended this publication to improve bankers' empathy and communication skills, especially when facing farmers showing "Suicide Warning ......
Critical Views of the Movement to Preserve Agricultural Land
The 1979 publication Where Have All the Farmlands Gone? by the National Agricultural Lands Study painted a bleak future for American farmlands. Threatened by encroaching construction and soil erosion, these lands were seen as endangered-and as the direct prelude to a nation-wide shortage of both food and fiber. The NALS report, to which eleven ......
In the last decade, rural development emerged as one of the prominent challenges facing the Unite States. Strong support for rural development is now found in both major political parties and at federal, state, and local levels. There is little doubt that the development of rural America will become even more important in the future. Despite ......
The Philippine economy has grown rapidly since 2010, but despite this growth, poverty and inequality remain high. Two-thirds of the poor live in rural areas, and the weak performance of the agriculture sector has contributed to the slow improvement in livelihoods. The challenge for agriculture will further increase, with climate change posing a ......
