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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CCSC: Centre for the Study of Co-operatives · 3 December 2024 English
In addition to the dis- appearance of the Wheat Pool, the co-operative sector has seen the dissolution of producer co-operatives (e.g., the Dairy Pro- ducers Co-operative), the sale of Concentra …
On this task force: George Lee, head of Agricultural Economics; Doug Cherry, dean of Arts & Science; Blaine … Commerce W.J. Furtan • Head, Department of Agricultural Economics R.P. MacKinnon • Dean, College of Law V … Commerce; Murray Fulton served as head of Agricultural Economics, was a leader in developing and running …
ADB: Asian Development Bank · 25 November 2024 English
This report shows how the Lao People’s Democratic Republic can boost food security by strengthening agricultural value chains, supporting rural areas, and scaling up nutrition-centered food systems to improve health …
and associate professor at the Centre for Agricultural Economics and Development at the University of Western … Winrock International. She holds a PhD in agricultural economics, a master’s degree in economics, and a … a graduate diploma in agricultural economics from the University of New England in Australia. She received … received her bachelor of science in agricultural economics (cum laude) from the University of the Philippines … Jon Marx Sarmiento is a PhD candidate in agricultural economics and a research associate at the University …
NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 21 November 2024 English
This paper examines how providing families with lump-sum in-kind assistance during the pandemic affected food hardship, economic well-being, and maternal health. We study the introduction of a new program, P-EBT, …
regression framework." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 82, no. 1 (2000): 200-213. Wing, Coady …
USRTK: U.S. Right to Know · 21 November 2024 English
In the case of the United States, the country with the largest area used for GM corn cultivation, the situation is similar to that of the rest of the world. …
costly anachronism?. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 85(3), 725-730. 691 Cohrssen, J. J. y … of corn production. European Review of Agricultural Economics, 47(2), 371-402. https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jby050 …
Fraser Institute · 21 November 2024 English
In the 2024/25 fiscal year, British Columbia plans to spend $9.6 billion on K-12 education. BC’s per-student spending in government schools grew 6.7 percent between 2012/13 to 2021/22, after adjusting …
journals including Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics and Com- putational Statistics. He holds …
NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 21 November 2024 English
We study the consequences of a clash between contemporary development initiatives and traditional economic practices in Africa. Crop agriculture has expanded considerably across the continent in recent years. Much of …
African Pastoralists,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2001, 83 (3), 674–679. Michalopoulos, …
World Bank Group · 21 November 2024 English
Since 2008, the World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study–Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA) program has supported the collection of nationally representative, longitudinal, multi-topic household survey data to inform researchers and …
Productivity and Economic Growth, in: Handbook of Agricultural Economics. Elsevier, pp. 3825–3866. https://doi.org/10 …
The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment · 19 November 2024 English
The persistence of the effect of increasing temperature is quantified by adding up the contemporaneous and lagged coefficients of the quadratic model. [...] The TFP categories are defined according to …
long-run adaptation? American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 103(4):1207–1238. Miguel, E., Satyanath …
World Bank Group · 18 November 2024 English
In Paraguay, poverty reduction has stalled since 2014 due to a deceleration in economic growth, which has been argued to be partly due to a series of climate-related events. Nevertheless, …
yields: Implications for climate change. Agricultural Economics, 47(S1), 159–171. Dallmann, I., & Millock … Evidence from Tanzania. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 98(4), 1230–1249. INE. (n.d.-a). Población … Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Agricultural Economics, 53(2), 321–332. Letta, M., Montalbano …
World Bank Group · 18 November 2024 English
Since 2008, the World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA) program has supported the collection of nationally representative, longitudinal, multi-topic household survey data to inform researchers and …
Productivity and Economic Growth, in: Handbook of Agricultural Economics. Elsevier, pp. 3825–3866. https://doi.org/10 …
