This book employs different parametric and non-parametric panel data models which have been used in history of developed panel data efficiency measurement literature.
This book seeks to understand the simultaneous economic and political contributors to China's changing agricultural protection levels and the central government's choice of policy instruments to tax or assist farmers.
The book examines the pattern of non-farm development at the national level and identifies the correlates and determinants of occupational diversification for the major states.
This book takes readers on a journey through the evolution of agricultural communities in southern India, from their historical roots to the recent global neo-liberal era.
This book discusses various climate smart agro-technologies, their technical and economic feasibility across heterogeneous agro-climatic conditions, assessing farmers' willingness to adopt those technologies, impact of climate smart technology in agricultural production and possible policy and investment opportunities to upscale it.
This book offers an assessment of the performance, impact, and welfare implications of the world's largest employment guarantee programme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA).
This book presents an extensive study on India's agricultural and nonfarm sectors, examining prices, investments and policies, and suggesting various essential technological changes.
This book examines the successful private, public and civil society models of agriculture value chains in India and addresses relevant challenges and opportunities to improve their efficiency and inclusiveness.
This book explores the sustainability aspect of organic and conventional farming systems, which is commonly categorized into three sub-aspects: social, environmental and economic.
The book aims to provide a comprehensive view of advanced environmental approaches for wastewater treatment, heavy metal removal, pesticide degradation, dye removal, waste management, microbial transformation of environmental contaminants etc.
This book contributes to the adoption of agricultural technology in general and to literature on the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in particular by identifying the factors that influence the decision to adopt SRI and examining SRI's impact on household income and yield.
This book provides a detailed review of the accumulated experience and lessons from China's agricultural reform and opening-up since the late 1970s, examining various aspects of this transition and providing a new perspective that can contribute to developing economic theories.
This book addresses up-to-date urban health issues from a systems perspective and provides an appealing integrated urban development strategy based on a 10-year global interdisciplinary research programme created by the International Council for Science (ICSU), and sponsored by the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) and the United Nations University (UNU).
This book examines the public stockholding policies of selected developing countries from the perspective of WTO rules and assesses whether the provisions of the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) could hamper these countries' efforts to address the challenges of food security.
This book uses sound theoretical frameworks and econometric techniques to rigorously analyze and explain the conditions of sustainable growth in agriculture.
This book takes stock of micro irrigation systems (MIS), the technological intervention in India's agricultural and water management sectors, over the past couple of decades.
El objetivo de esta obra es diseñar y proponer políticas tendientes al fomento de la asociatividad entre los productores de leche en Colombia, tomando como referente dos cuencas de alta producción lechera: altiplano cundiboyacense y zona sur del país.
"La paz consagrada en la Constitución Política de 1991 como deber y derecho, ha sido un compromiso asumido e integrado en los Planes Globales de Desarrollo de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia que, desde el 2012, ha establecido ejes orientados a apoyar el actual proceso de paz a partir del reconocimiento que se requiere para una solución definitiva al conflicto armado interno.
"La bioeconomía constituye una estrategia basada en la idea de un uso más eficiente de los recursos, tecnologías y procesos biológicos para la provisión de bienes y servicios que nuestras sociedades demandan.
El proposito del estudio fue elaborar un modelo de innovacion y desarrollo tecnologico que incremente la capacidad de gestion para lograr un verdadero desarrollo economico y social de las regiones que ancestralmente han vivido de la pesca.
Este libro analiza a la soberania alimentaria, como propuesta politica para atender la necesidad vital de la alimentacion, una soberania que es defendida por organizaciones sociales, ciudadanos conscientes de su importancia y, desde luego, por los campesinos.
El manual es fruto de la formulación de preguntas fundamentales de los jóvenes universitarios, en su afán del estudio de la verdad y las relaciones entre la fe y la ciencia.
De las tantas versiones que circulan del I Ching, pocas han sido tratadas con una perspectiva creativa; el hecho de aproximarse al oráculo de un modo diferente, sin traicionar su esencia, no es algo que sea común, sobre todo en aquellas versiones que se aferran a lo convencional repitiendo esquemas harto conocidos, y de lo que ya hay bastante.
Overall, this work identifies key points to be taken into account when drawing up guidelines that govern the use of herbicide-tolerant (HT) crops in order to preserve the effectiveness of this innovation over time.
This book aims at explaining the nature and strength of the links between the families and their farms looking at their diversity throughout the world.
This volume covers the Middle-Eastern and North African regions who are increasingly dependent on imports from abroad for covering their domestic food needs.
In the first section dedicated to theoretical thoughts on comparative agriculture, Hubert Cochet introduces the notion of "e;agricultural development"e;, the very subject of comparative agriculture, with a restored endogenous dimension.
The book focuses on four broad topics related to trapping of agriculturally important tephritid fruit flies, namely i) lures and traps, ii) invasion biology and detection of infestations, iii) attract and kill systems, and iv) trade regulations and risk assessment.
This book evaluates the history, the present and the future of water markets on 5 continents, beginning with the institutional underpinnings of water markets and factors influencing transaction costs.
Human activity is changing the global environment at an unprecedented rate while humanity faces a range of complex and interrelated challenges to local, regional and global development, human security and politics.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) produced a 2011 report on women in agriculture with a clear and urgent message: agriculture underperforms because half of all farmers-women-lack equal access to the resources and opportunities they need to be more productive.
If a global population of 9 billion by 2050 is to be fed adequately, more food must be produced and this in keeping with increasingly stringent standards of quality and with respect for the environment.
