The Agricultural Economics Of The 21st Century

Author : Vítor João Pereira Domingues Martinho
Publisher : Springer
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319094717

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The Agricultural Economics of the 21st Century by Vítor João Pereira Domingues Martinho Pdf

​This publication provides insight into the agricultural sector. It illustrates new tendencies in agricultural economics and dynamics (interrelationship with other sectors in rural zones and multifunctionality) and the implications of the World Trade Organization negotiations in the international trade of agricultural products. Due to environmental problems, availability of budget, consumer preferences for food safety and pressure from the World Trade Organization, there are many changes in the agricultural sector. This book addresses those new developments and provides insights into possible future developments. The agricultural activity is an economic sector that is fundamental for a sustainable economic growth of every country. However, this sector has many particularities, namely those related with some structural problems (many farms with reduced dimension, sometimes lack of vocational training of the farmers, difficulties of put the farmers together in associations and cooperatives), variations of the productions and prices over the year and some environmental problems derived from the utilization of pesticides and fertilizers.

Author : Luther G. Tweeten,Stanley R. Thompson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780470390344

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Agricultural Policy for the 21st Century by Luther G. Tweeten,Stanley R. Thompson Pdf

Agricultural policy reform has become a very hot topic. Over the next couple of years we will see the funding for these programs being hotly debated. The thesis of this book is that a better-informed public is essential to bring rationality to farm policy. This book provides telling evidence that markets work, that competent commercial farmers will earn returns on their resources as high as those earned elsewhere in the absence of income transfer to farmers.

Author : Don Paarlberg,Philip Paarlberg
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780470290064

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The Agricultural Revolution of the 20th Century by Don Paarlberg,Philip Paarlberg Pdf

A book for a varied audience: college students of agriculture and sociology; high school students of vocation agriculture; members of the American Agricultural Economics Association; people with a long-standing background in agriculture; and other readers interested in 20th century agriculture. The book reads like a story and is supplemented with excellent photographs, contrasting past practices with modern technology.

Author : Stephanie Mercier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Agriculture and state
ISBN : 3030364542

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Agricultural Policy of the United States by Stephanie Mercier Pdf

This book serves as a foundational reference of U.S. land settlement and early agricultural policy, a comprehensive journey through the evolution of 20th century agricultural policy, and a detailed guide to the key agricultural policy issues of the early 21st century. This book integrates the legal, economic and political concepts and ideas that guided U.S. agricultural policy from colonial settlement to the 21st century, and it applies those concepts to the policy issues agriculture will face over the next generation. The book is organized into three sections. Section one introduces the main themes of the book, explores the pre-Columbian period and early European settlement, and traces the first 150 years of U.S. agricultural policy starting with the post revolution period and ending with the "golden age" of agriculture in the early 20th century. Section two outlines that grand bargain of the 1930s that initiated the modern era of government intervention into agricultural markets and traces this policy evolution to the early days of the 21st century. The third section provides an in-depth examination of six policy issues that dominate current policy discussions and will impact policy decisions for the next generation: trade, environment/conservation, commodity checkoff programs, crop insurance, biofuels, and domestic nutrition programs.

Author : Dr. Marvin S. Anderson
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781525554865

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Canadian Agriculture in the 21st Century by Dr. Marvin S. Anderson Pdf

The Canadian Farming Community is facing numerous ongoing challenges, including rapidly changing technologies, the gradual erosion of the rural lifestyle, growing consumer concerns about the healthiness of food, and growing environmental concerns (including climate change). This book begins with an historic overview of agriculture in Canada, followed by a statistical profile of the contemporary Canadian farm/ranch, supporting agri-industrial complex, and the innumerable farm organizations in Canada. The vital role of international trade and government support in the evolution of Canadian agriculture is also highlighted. Resource management issues and related “hot button” issues (e.g. climate change, GMO’s) are also addressed in considerable detail. In addition, Dr. Anderson identifies the likely trends in Canadian agriculture in the immediate years ahead. Emphasizing the diversity, complexity, strength and vitality of the agricultural sector, Canadian Agriculture in the 21st Century ultimately highlights how it effectively molds and remains integral to the socioeconomic fabric of both rural and urban Canada. An underlying theme is the importance of having Canadian agriculture become increasingly ecofriendly in the challenging years ahead, particularly the need to gradually adopt more sustainable, regenerative (organic) technologies and the need to more pro-actively serve as a vital CO2 sink in climate change mitigation. Dr. Anderson also suggests that the public should financially compensate farmers/ ranchers for protecting environmental amenities that accrue to everyone. A complimentary theme is the need for Canadian agriculture to become increasingly sensitive to consumer concerns, particularly with respect to rigorous health standards, animal welfare, and sustainable resource management.

Author : Marvin Duncan
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429721168

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Financing Agriculture Into The Twenty-first Century by Marvin Duncan Pdf

This volume is concerned with the paradigm shifts occurring in U.S. agriculture and its related financial services sector. The U.S. agricultural sector is undergoing rapid change with large segments commonly described as industrialized. Often observers focus on the technological and structural changes that the sector is undergoing and ignore other

Author : Agricultural Economics Society of Ethiopia. Conference
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Agricultural productivity
ISBN : 9994483641

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Adapting to Crisis by Agricultural Economics Society of Ethiopia. Conference Pdf

Author : Roland J. Hildreth
Publisher : Iowa State Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038436767

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Agriculture and Rural Areas Approaching the Twenty-first Century by Roland J. Hildreth Pdf

Author : Guy Paillotin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783662036921

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European Agricultural Research in the 21st Century by Guy Paillotin Pdf

Jointly published with INRA, Paris. What will people eat in the future and how can the food requirements in terms of quantity and quality be met? This EU-based study elucidates the need for a productivity level that will make agriculture competitive on the market and yet is reconciled with the need to manage natural resources and lands wisely. In this book the necessary changes for European agriculture from the biological, medical, economic and political perspective are discussed.

Author : Dr Marvin S Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1525554840

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Canadian Agriculture in the 21st Century by Dr Marvin S Anderson Pdf

The Canadian Farming Community is facing numerous ongoing challenges, including rapidly changing technologies, the gradual erosion of the rural lifestyle, growing consumer concerns about the healthiness of food, and growing environmental concerns (including climate change). This book begins with an historic overview of agriculture in Canada, followed by a statistical profile of the contemporary Canadian farm/ranch, supporting agri-industrial complex, and the innumerable farm organizations in Canada. The vital role of international trade and government support in the evolution of Canadian agriculture is also highlighted. Resource management issues and related "hot button" issues (e.g. climate change, GMO's) are also addressed in considerable detail. In addition, Dr. Anderson identifies the likely trends in Canadian agriculture in the immediate years ahead. Emphasizing the diversity, complexity, strength and vitality of the agricultural sector, Canadian Agriculture in the 21st Century ultimately highlights how it effectively molds and remains integral to the socioeconomic fabric of both rural and urban Canada. An underlying theme is the importance of having Canadian agriculture become increasingly ecofriendly in the challenging years ahead, particularly the need to gradually adopt more sustainable, regenerative (organic) technologies and the need to more pro-actively serve as a vital CO2 sink in climate change mitigation. Dr. Anderson also suggests that the public should financially compensate farmers/ ranchers for protecting environmental amenities that accrue to everyone. A complimentary theme is the need for Canadian agriculture to become increasingly sensitive to consumer concerns, particularly with respect to rigorous health standards, animal welfare, and sustainable resource management....

Author : Christian Anton Smedshaug
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781843318675

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Feeding the World in the 21st Century by Christian Anton Smedshaug Pdf

'Feeding The World in the 21st Century: A Historical Analysis of Agriculture and Society' provides and utilizes a historical understanding of the current global food situation as the basis for analyzing the ultimate challenge on how to feed an ever-expanding world of 10 billion people.

Author : Petra Moser
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226779058

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Economics of Research and Innovation in Agriculture by Petra Moser Pdf

"The challenges facing agriculture are plenty. Along with the world's growing population and diminishing amounts of water and arable land, the gradual increase in severe weather presents new challenges and imperatives for producing new, more resilient crops to feed a more crowded planet in the twenty-first century. Innovation has historically helped agriculture keep pace with earth's social, population, and ecological changes. In the last 50 years, mechanical, biological, and chemical innovations have more than doubled agricultural output while barely changing input quantities. The ample investment behind these innovations was available because of a high rate of return: a 2007 paper found that the median ROI in agriculture was 45 percent between 1965 and 2005. This landscape has changed. Today many of the world's wealthier countries have scaled back their share of GDP devoted to agricultural R&D amid evidence of diminishing returns. Universities, which have historically been a major source of agricultural innovation, increasingly depend on funding from industry rather than government to fund their research. As Upton Sinclair wrote of the effects industry influences, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." In this volume of the NBER Conference Report series, editor Petra Moser offers an empirical, applied-economic framework to the different elements of agricultural R&D, particularly as they relate to the shift from public to private funding. Individual chapters examine the sources of agricultural knowledge and investigate challenges for measuring the returns to the adoption of new agricultural technologies, examine knowledge spillovers from universities to agricultural innovation, and explore interactions between university engagement and scientific productivity. Additional analysis of agricultural venture capital point to it as an emerging and future source of resource in this essential domain"--

Author : Milton C. Hallberg
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429723278

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Food, Agriculture, And Rural Policy Into The Twenty-first Century by Milton C. Hallberg Pdf

This book contributes to 1995 policymaking by offering information concerning an array of issues fundamentally important to the U.S. agricultural and food sector. It reviews a set of policy approaches for dealing with these issues, and assesses trade-offs among these alternative approaches.

Author : Willard Wesley Cochrane
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0803215290

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The Curse of American Agricultural Abundance by Willard Wesley Cochrane Pdf

Advisor to President Kennedy, consultant for foreign governments, and spokesman for family farmers everywhere, Willard W. Cochrane has been a leading expert on agriculture and its problems in the United States since the 1940s. In his straightforward style Cochrane analyzes the propensity for American agriculture to produce too much and the inability of our social and economic system to make effective use of that unending abundance. He then offers his vision for American agriculture in the twenty-first century. Cochrane looks at two periods in agricultural history: 195366 and 19972002. Structurally, technologically, and organizationally the two periods are as different as night and day, but in terms of the big economic picture--too much production pressing on a limited commercial demand with resulting low farm prices and incomes--they are mirror images of each other. With this understanding, Cochrane argues that Americans no longer need to farm fragile ecosystems with intensive chemical methods, make huge payments that result in fewer farms and higher farming costs, nor bear the environmental consequences of all-out production. Instead, he outlines a bold new strategy in which we can enjoy our abundance and focus our efforts on quality of life and protecting the environment in our rural areas. Willard W. Cochrane is the author of numerous books, including The Development of American Agriculture: A Historical Analysis, and coauthor of Reforming Farm Policy: Toward a National Agenda. Richard A. Levins is a professor of agricultural economics at the University of Minnesota and the author of Willard Cochrane and the American Family Farm (Nebraska 2003).

Author : Stephanie A. Mercier,Steve A. Halbrook
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030364526

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Agricultural Policy of the United States by Stephanie A. Mercier,Steve A. Halbrook Pdf

This book serves as a foundational reference of U.S. land settlement and early agricultural policy, a comprehensive journey through the evolution of 20th century agricultural policy, and a detailed guide to the key agricultural policy issues of the early 21st century. This book integrates the legal, economic and political concepts and ideas that guided U.S. agricultural policy from colonial settlement to the 21st century, and it applies those concepts to the policy issues agriculture will face over the next generation. The book is organized into three sections. Section one introduces the main themes of the book, explores the pre-Columbian period and early European settlement, and traces the first 150 years of U.S. agricultural policy starting with the post revolution period and ending with the “golden age” of agriculture in the early 20th century. Section two outlines that grand bargain of the 1930s that initiated the modern era of government intervention into agricultural markets and traces this policy evolution to the early days of the 21st century. The third section provides an in-depth examination of six policy issues that dominate current policy discussions and will impact policy decisions for the next generation: trade, environment/conservation, commodity checkoff programs, crop insurance, biofuels, and domestic nutrition programs.