Agricultural Economics

Agricultural economics is an applied field of economics concerned with the application of economic theory in optimizing the production and distribution of food and fiber. Agricultural economics began as a branch of economics that specifically dealt with land usage, it focused on maximizing the crop yield while maintaining a good soil ecosystem. Throughout the 20th century the discipline expanded and the current scope of the discipline is much broader. Agricultural economics today includes a variety of applied areas, having considerable overlap with conventional economics. Agricultural economists have made substantial contributions to research in economics, econometrics, development economics, and environmental economics. …

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World Bank Group · 17 July 2024 English

Good road infrastructure decreases travel time and improves accessibility to urban areas. Improved rural-urban linkages could also affect rural employment through decreased time and travel costs. To study this link, …

Ethiopian Villages’, American Journal of Agricultural Economics 91(4), 1007–1021. Donaldson, D. (2018)


World Bank Group · 16 July 2024 English

Micronutrient deficiency, or hidden hunger, remains a significant problem affecting more than 2 billion people globally. Consuming a diet that is diverse in agricultural products is a primary way of …

Does gender matter? European Review of Agricultural Economics, 43(5): 841-874. doi:10.1093/erae/jbv039


World Bank Group · 16 July 2024 English

Since 2020, many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have experienced disruptions to agricultural activities due to the adverse effects of multiple global crises. Notably, the Russian invasion of Ukraine caused a …

smallholder farmers in western Kenya. Agricultural Economics, 40(5), 561-572. Minot, N. and Benson of fertilizer use on maize in Zambia. Agricultural Economics, 40(4), 437-446. Zezza, A., McGee, K. in-person data collection. European Review of Agricultural Economics, 50(4), pp.1364-1400.22 Table A1. HFPS


NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 11 July 2024 English

Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) are a widely used approach for forest conservation through which people are paid to avoid deforesting land they enroll in the program. We present findings …

from Burkina Faso.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 103(3): 831–857. Alix-Garcia, Jennifer trial in Sierra Leone.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 101(3): 894–918. Wunder, Sven. 2005. “Payments


ERIA: Economic Research Institute for ASEAN & East Asia · 11 July 2024 English

ERIA Discussion Paper 2024-20, No. 527

Study on Bangladesh Agriculture’, BRAC Agricultural Economics Working Paper. Dhaka: BRAC Institute of


World Bank Group · 26 June 2024 French

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IGIDR: Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research · 26 June 2024 English

PROGRAMME: 2024-25 Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai ▪ BACKGROUND Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) is an advanced research Institute established in 1987 in Mumbai by the …

IGIDR has expertise in research areas of Agricultural Economics, Development Economics, Energy Economics of Economics, Delhi School of Economics. Agricultural economics, resource and environmental economics, California, Berkeley. Environmental economics, agricultural economics. Bharti Nandwani, Assistant Professor, Professor, PhD (Agricultural Economics), Cornell University, USA. Agricultural economics, development economics Economics), Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi. Agricultural economics, international trade, risk and insurance


World Bank Group · 26 June 2024 English

This paper provides the first measures of vulnerability to poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean at the household level looking at natural hazards such as floods, landslides, cyclones, earthquakes, …

Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Agricultural Economics, 53(2), 321-332. MODIS Landcover Collection


RECOFTC: Center for People and Forests · 26 June 2024 English

Staff capable of executing tasks assigned to them, and sufficient financial resources to enable them to do so Good forest governance helps countries optimize the production of forest products and …

Agricultural Extension and the Office of Agricultural Economics — see Gritten and Khunrattanasiri (2023)


World Bank Group · 24 June 2024 English

This paper presents a unified analytical framework to organize and review the literature on consumption-based poverty measurement, with a focus on establishing absolute poverty lines. Based on this framework, the …

“Consistent Poverty Comparisons and Inference”, Agricultural Economics, 37: 133–9. Arndt, C. and K.R. Simler


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