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The development of agricultural biotechnology offers the opportunity to increase crop production, lower farming costs, improve food quality and safety, and enhance environmental quality. This new book describes the economic, scientific, and social factors that will influence the future of biotechnology in agriculture. The supply of biotechnology innovations and products will be affected by public policies and by expectations of producer and consumer demand for the products. The demand for biotechnology by farmers and food processors is derived from the expected profitability of using the technology as an input to production. Ultimately, the use of biotechnology in the farm sector will depend on consumer demand for the biotechnology-derived agricultural products. ... Read more

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This book explains - in non-technical and informative language - the range of decision models and techniques available to help the business manager maximize his resources. With the aid of case studies, drawn largely from the area of agribusiness, the book demonstrates how these techniques can be usefully applied at relatively low cost. It represents the successful results of an international collaboration by 25 researchers from 20 different countries. Many of the papers are published here for the first-time; others appear for the first time in English, while the rest have been collected from widely dispersed sources not really accessible to those outside the operations research field. Although the studies relate to agribusiness, they are also transferable to a much wider segment of the industry and services sectors and will be read with profit by managers of firms engaged in a wide range of business activities. ... Read more

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The increasing volume of remittances and public transfers in rural areas of the developing world has raised hopes that these cash inflows may serve as an effective mechanism for reducing poverty in the long term by facilitating investments and raising productivity, particularly in agriculture where market failures are most manifest. This book systematically tests the empirical relationship between cash transfers and productive spending in agriculture amongst rural households in six different countries of the developing world. Together, the studies point to little impact of migration and public and private transfers on agricultural productivity, instead facilitating a transition away from agriculture or to a less labour intensive type of agriculture.

From a policy perspective the studies raise the question of how to maintain rural economies, as migration and social assistance are unlikely to provide a sustainable way to overcome rural poverty in the long run for those that remain in rural areas. For the foreseeable future, agriculture will play an important role in alleviating poverty and sustaining growth in rural areas. Yet, public and private transfers are not providing much of the impetus needed to raise the sector’s productivity. Whether the transfers are invested in agriculture will ultimately depend on the attractiveness of the sector, which is largely determined by the policies of governments and donors.

This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies.

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This first volume in the series Agricultural Management and Economics aims at identifying areas of important interactions between agriculture and resources where high payoffs to coordination would likely occur. It is an especially timely book, as interest and opportunities for coordinating these policies exist given new and pending legislation, such as the 1990 Farm Bill in the US. ... Read more

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This new book covers both theoretical and applied agricultural economics research. Its scope also includes a wide range of topics related to agricultural economics. Topic areas include, for example: production economics and farm management, agricultural policy, agricultural environmental issues, regional planning and rural development, factor markets, supply and demand analysis, marketing of agricultural and food products, international trade and development, and methodology. It also examines the linkages between and among financial institutions, the macroeconomy, world markets, government programs, farms, agribusinesses, food marketing, and the environment. ... Read more

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This study suggests responses by the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries in the key area of private sector development, as they negotiate with the European Union (EU) on a framework for future ACP-EU co-operation. It builds on a workshop with ACP representatives held in Brussels in 1998. It compares and comments on each substantive issue in the ACP Group Negotiating Mandate of September 1998 and the European Commission’s Draft Communication on Future EC Support for Private Sector Development in ACP Countries. ... Read more

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For the beginning farmer or would-be farmer
This book is offered as an introduction to the subject of Agricultural Economics for beginning students and others interested in the economic problems of agriculture in the United States.

This book has grown out of the writers experience in teaching the introductory course in Agricultural Economics in three land-grant colleges.It has been the writers' experience that students taking the course, students from the College of Agriculture for the most part, have had little or no training in general economics, and are scarcely familiar with the most elementary concepts of economics.Therefore a special effort has been made to make clear these elementary concepts.The writer believes that more will be gained by beginning students in Agricultural Economics by having them master a few fundamental principles of economics and to get a clear picture of the economic organization of our agricultural, than spending a great deal of timing threshing over theoretical, controversial points.

Contents;
1.Development of American capital agriculture and Agricultural Economics
2.The Farm Population and Farm life
3.Agriculture and the Price Economy
4.Land as a factor in Agricultural Production
5.Land Income and Land Values
6.Land Tenure
7.Land Policies
8.Social capital in Farming
9.Farm Credit
10.Insurance for the Farmer
11.Farm Labor
12.Farm Management
13.Marketing agricultural Products
14.Cooperative Marketing
15.Foreign Markets
16.Agriculture and the Tariff
17.The Farmer and Taxation
18.Agriculture and Price Movements
19.Farmers Movements
20.Farm Wealth and Income

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