Agribusiness and primary industries Books
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Agriculture, Trade and the Environment: The
Book SynopsisThis timely book focuses on the liberalization of agricultural policy and questions whether it is compatible with the goal of achieving economic and environmental sustainability in the European Union. It presents an invaluable contribution to the growing literature on the sustainability and policy aspects of trade liberalization, focusing on European agriculture.Agriculture, Trade and the Environment discusses quantitative methods for the assessment of agriculture-environment trade-offs for policy analysis at the firm, regional or national levels. It also presents the experience of countries in Europe, with particular regard to the impact of the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy and the repercussions of the Uruguay Round. Using a wide range of analytical and quantitative tools, country case studies examine agricultural areas in Austria, Scotland, Italy, Spain, Greece and Estonia. The authors then go on to look at future developments in an enlarged EU context. They conclude that efficient policies for environmental management in the EU need to be tailored to fit local conditions. Any attempt to impose uniform policies across a region as environmentally and economically diverse as Europe will have widely divergent and unintended consequences.This book will prove invaluable to academics and students with an interest in agricultural economics, environmental and ecological economics and the European Union.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. Comparative Statics on a Two-Country, One-Commodity, Two-Factor Agricultural Trade Model with Process-Generated Pollution 2. Quantifying Agriculture–Environment Tradeoffs to Assess Environmental Impacts of Domestic and Trade Policies 3. Decomposing the Effects of Trade on the Environment 4. Effects of CAP Reform on the Environment in the European Union 5. Consistency Between Environmental and Competitiveness Objectives of Agricultural Policies 6. EU Agriculture and the Economics of Vertically-Related Markets 7. Are Support Measures and External Effects of Agriculture Linked Together? 8. Principles for the Provision of Public Goods from Agriculture 9. The Impact of the Uruguay Round on the Agro-Food Sector and the Rural Environment it Italy 10. The Common Agricultural Policy and the Environment 11. The Productivity of Agrochemicals in Greece 12. Agriculture and the Environment in Transition 13. European Agriculture and the CAP
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Agricultural Policy
Book SynopsisAgricultural politics and policy retain a central place in the politics of advanced industrial societies. Governments in most countries continue to subsidise agricultural production and regulate markets for farm commodities. The growth of concern about the environmental impact of agriculture has added a new dimension to the sector's politics. Tensions between the US and the EU over the protection of agriculture remain a major feature. New Zealand offers an interesting example of an experiment with deregulated and liberalised agriculture, while Japanese agriculture continues to be highly protected. All these topics are covered in this two volume set, which brings together the best writing on the subject from leading agricultural economists, political scientists and rural sociologists from across the world.Trade Review'This large collection of forty-eight articles is extremely useful for specialists in agricultural policy and showcases the strengths in this literature. It provides convenient access to a wealth of information on agricultural policy and the factors driving its development, particularly within Europe. . . . The strength of this collection is its disciplinary breadth. The editors have selected articles from economics, sociology, public administration, political science, and public policy journals.' -- Elizabeth Moore, Canadian Public AdministrationTable of ContentsContents: Volume I: Agricultural Policy in Western Europe Acknowledgements • Introduction Part I Theoretical Perspectives 1. Johan F.M. Swinnen (1994), ‘A Positive Theory of Agricultural Protection’ 2. Grant Jordan, William A. Maloney and Andrew M. McLaughlin (1994), ‘Characterizing Agricultural Policy-making’ 3. Martin J. Smith (1989), ‘Changing Agendas and Policy Communities: Agricultural Issues in the 1930s and 1980s’ 4. John T.S. Keeler (1981), ‘Corporatism and Official Union Hegemony: The Case of French Agricultural Syndicalism’ 5. Neil Collins (1995), ‘Agricultural Policy Networks of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland’ 6. Martin J. Smith (1991), ‘From Policy Community to Issue Network: Salmonella in Eggs and the New Politics of Food’ 7. William D. Coleman, Grace D. Skogstad and Michael M. Atkinson (1997), ‘Paradigm Shifts and Policy Networks: Cumulative Change in Agriculture’ 8. Harriet Friedmann and Philip McMichael (1989), ‘Agriculture and the State System: The Rise and Decline of National Agricultures, 1870 to the Present’ Part II The Common Agricultural Policy and the Politics of Reform 9. Rosemary Fennell (1985), ‘A Reconsideration of the Objectives of the Common Agricultural Policy’ 10. Alan Swinbank (1989), ‘The Common Agricultural Policy and the Politics of European Decision Making’ 11. Eduardo Moyano Estrada (1995), ‘Farmers’ Unions and the Restructuring of European Agriculture’ 12. Alan Swinbank (1993), ‘CAP Reform, 1992’ 13. H. Wayne Moyer (1993), ‘The European Community and the GATT Uruguay Round: Preserving the Common Agricultural Policy at All Costs’ 14. Wyn Grant (1995), ‘The Limits of Common Agricultural Policy Reform and the Option of Denationalization’ 15. John T.S. Keeler (1996), ‘Agricultural Power in the European Community: Explaining the Fate of CAP and GATT Negotiations’ 16. L.P. Mahé and T.L. Roe (1996), ‘The Political Economy of Reforming the 1992 CAP Reform,’ 17. Douglas Webber (1998), ‘High Midnight in Brussels: An Analysis of the September 1993 Council Meeting on the GATT Uruguay Round’ Part III National Perspectives on Agricultural Reform 18. Paul J. Epstein (1997), ‘Beyond Policy Community: French Agriculture and the GATT’ 19. William James Adams (1999), ‘The Political Economy of Agriculture in France’s Fifth Republic’ 20. Carsten Daugbjerg (1997), ‘Policy Networks and Agricultural Policy Reforms: Explaining Deregulation in Sweden and Re-Regulation in the European Community’ 21. S. von Cramon-Taubadel (1993), ‘The Reform of the CAP from a German Perspective’ 22. Enrico Capo (1995), ‘Transformation and Development in Italian Rural Society’ 23. Andrew Fearne (1991), ‘The Administration of EC Agricultural Policies by National Agencies’ Name Index Volume II: Agricultural Policy in Global Perspective Part I Agricultural Trade and the Liberalization Trend 1. T.E. Josling (1993), ‘Agriculture in a World of Trading Blocs’ 2. David Blandford and Joe Dewbre (1994), ‘Structural Adjustment and Learning to Live Without Subsidies in OECD Countries’ 3. Robert Paarlberg (1997), ‘Agricultural Policy Reform and the Uruguay Round: Synergistic Linkage in a Two-Level Game’ 4. Judith Goldstein (1989), ‘The Impact of Ideas on Trade Policy: The Origins of U.S. Agricultural and Manufacturing Policies’ Part II The Challenge of Agricultural Reform: Three Case Studies A The United States 5. Kenneth Finegold (1981), ‘From Agrarianism to Adjustment: The Political Origins of New Deal Agricultural Policy’ 6. Gregory Hooks (1990), ‘From an Autonomous to a Captured State Agency: The Decline of the New Deal in Agriculture’ 7. Bruce L. Gardner (1996), ‘The Federal Government in Farm Commodity Markets: Recent Reform Efforts in a Long-Term Context’ 8. Robert Paarlberg and David Orden (1996), ‘Explaining U.S. Farm Policy in 1996 and Beyond: Changes in Party Control and Changing Market Conditions’ 9. William D. Coleman, Michael M. Atkinson and Eric Montpetit (1997), ‘Against the Odds: Retrenchment in Agriculture in France and the United States’ B New Zealand 10. Paul Cloke (1989), ‘State Deregulation and New Zealand’s Agricultural Sector’ 11. Warren E. Johnston and Gerald A.G. Frengley (1994), ‘Economic Adjustments and Changes in Financial Viability of the Farming Sector: The New Zealand Experience’ 12. Ron A. Sandrey and Grant M. Scobie (1994), ‘Changing International Competitiveness and Trade: Recent Experience in New Zealand Agriculture’ 13. Bruce L. Gardner (1994), ‘Liberalization in New Zealand Agriculture: Discussion’ 14. F.G. Scrimgeour and E.C. Pasour, Jr. (1996), ‘A Public Choice Perspective on Agricultural Policy Reform: Implications of the New Zealand Experience’ C Japan 15. Aurelia George (1991), ‘The Politics of Interest Representation in the Japanese Diet: The Case of Agriculture’ 16. Aurelia George Mulgan (1997), ‘The Role of Foreign Pressure (Gaiatsu) in Japan’s Agricultural Trade Liberalization’ 17. Robert L. Paarlberg (1990), ‘The Upside-Down World of US–Japanese Agricultural Trade’ 18. Yamaji Susumu (1979), ‘The Unsung Mainstays (2): Agriculture’ 19. Karel van Wolferen (1989), ‘The System at Work in Rural Japan’ Part III Agro-Environmental Policy 20. David Baldock (1992), ‘The Polluter Pays Principle and Its Relevance to Agricultural Policy in European Countries’ 21. Pieter Glasbergen (1992), ‘Agro-Environmental Policy: Trapped in an Iron Law? A Comparative Analysis of Agricultural Pollution Control in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and France’ 22. Jaap Frouws and Jan van Tatenhove (1993), ‘Agriculture, Environment and the State: The Development of Agro-Environmental Policy-Making in the Netherlands’ 23. Karl Bruckmeier and Parto Teherani-Krönner (1992), ‘Farmers and Environmental Regulation: Experiences in the Federal Republic of Germany’ 24. Torben Bager and Jet Proost (1997), ‘Voluntary Regulation and Farmers’ Environmental Behaviour in Denmark and The Netherlands’ 25. Reidar Almås (1994), ‘The Rise and Fall of Agricultural Policy Cycles: from Planned Economy to Green Liberalism’ Name Index
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West Virginia University Press Seeds of Occupation, Seeds of Possibility: The
Book SynopsisHow Hawaiʻi became the epicenter of the biotech seed industry, and how a resistance movement arose to confront the industry’s power. Hawaiʻi is a primary site for development of herbicide-resistant corn seed and, until recently, was host to more experimental field trials of genetically engineered crops than anywhere else in the world. It is also a node of powerful resistance. While documentaries and popular news stories have profiled the biotech seed industry in Hawaiʻi, Seeds of Occupation, Seeds of Possibility is the first book to detail the social and historical conditions by which the chemical-seed oligopoly came to occupy the most geographically isolated islands in the world and made the soils of Hawaiʻi the epicenter of agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology testing. Andrea Brower, an activist-scholar from Hawaiʻi, examines the consequences related to genetically engineered seed development for Hawaiʻi’s people and the social movement that has risen in response. With insights beyond the islands, Seeds of Occupation, Seeds of Possibility illuminates why visions for a radically better world must be expanded by intersectional and systemically oriented movements.Trade ReviewWhere this book differs from other academic studies about power in Hawaiʻi is in its steadfast commitment to demonstrating the power of intersectional resistance. Brower's interest in capitalism and agrochemical agriculture's colonization of food production is not only to expose the dangers to human and nonhuman life but also to demonstrate how a resistance that spans ethnicities, classes, genders, and other distinct interest groups derives power from coalition instead of division. This book is a timely examination of Hawaiʻi's struggles over land and power."—Kathryn Besio, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo"This book is a powerful intervention of truth and transparency into corporate darkness and influence. It explodes the myth of benevolence and the drive to feed the world in the agricultural biotechnology industry. What might seem like battles on the edge of the empire in places like Hawaiʻi can actually be seen as central sites of leadership, resistance, and innovation in grappling against global structures and power. Hawaiʻi's place as the epicenter for a global battle over our future—the future of our food systems, the impacts of pesticides and herbicides on human health and environment, and the need for courageous actors—is made clear by this work. We need this book."—Kamana Beamer, University of Hawaiʻi at MānoaTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Contested Futures 1. The Agrochemical-Seed-Biotech Oligopoly 2. Science and Regulation in Service of Capital 3. “GMO Ground Zero” 4. Imperialism and the Making of a Plantation Economy 5. From Sugar to Monsanto 6. The State’s Redistribution of Collective Wealth 7. Resistance Is Fertile 8. Battling Monsanto in an Era of Neoliberal Cynicism 9. Seeds of Possibility Bibliography Index
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Business Expert Press A Profile of the Hospitality Industry
Book SynopsisThe hospitality industry is a unique and diverse industry. This book tells the history, organizational structure, and management strategies of the hospitality industry. Traditionally an entrepreneurial business, the hospitality industry today includes organizations ranging from small independent cafes and inns to large multinational corporations. The author highlights key hotel, restaurant, and casino companies, and explains the concepts of franchising, consortia, and management contracts.The book divulges how the hospitality product is different from other industries: part service and part product, produced and consumed simultaneously, and the role of the customer as part of the service process. The book explains how perishable inventory and labor intensity affect hotels, restaurants, and casinos. The author also reviews policies that promote or restrict tourism and travel, guest and employee safety, labor regulations, food safety laws, and requirements for accommodations for customers with disabilities.This text explains key strategic management decisions of the hospitality industry. The author projects how global expansion and sustainability efforts are shaping the industry, but also warns of the ongoing threats of pandemics and terrorism to travel.
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Business Expert Press Food and Architecture
Book SynopsisFood and architecture, the two pillars of human civilization, have intertwined to such extents to sustain the civilization itself, that the connection between the two has visually ceased to exist. The apparent diverse fields of human life have worked upon similar principles through ages from the beginning of mankind and they complemented our existence. Food is fundamental to cross-cultural studies of behavior, thought, and imagery. We eat for many reasons than just to satisfy our appetite. The act of eating is now a way of socializing with others. Hence all major institutes of food service are trying hard to amaze their users with a built environment that complements the served delicacy. Although most of the users might not understand the thought consciously but subconscious mind keeps alarming when things don’t fall in place. The book surfs through all the aspects of such two diverse fields and tries to show a parallel through a very socialistic and holistic perspective. It’s interesting to understand the intangible logics behind the very tangible aspects of human life.
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Business Expert Press A Profile of the Farm Machinery Industry: The Power to Help Farmers Feed the World
Book SynopsisThe farm machinery industry, though dominated by three large companies, is a complex sector of the global manufacturing economy that encompasses many smaller manufacturers as well. While contributing a small percentage to gross world product, it is vitally important to another key sector of the economy agriculture. Consequently, the recent rise in global crop prices has allowed the industry to be more resilient than other mature manufacturing sectors, like automobiles.The proposed book will provide a concise but comprehensive look at the farm machinery industry: its history, organization, competitors, and the challenges and opportunities the industry faces as a result of regulations, globalization and outside market forces. This will be done as a means of understanding a crucial building block to the success of agriculture's ability to feed the expanding world population.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Russia’s Role in the Contemporary International
Book SynopsisThis Open Access book analyses the emergence of Russia as a global food power and what it means for global food trade. Russia's strategy for food production and trade has changed significantly since the end of the Soviet period, and this is the first book to take account of Russia's rise as a food power and the global implications of that rise. It includes food trade policy and practice, and developments in regional food trade. This book will be of interest to academics and practitioners in agricultural economics, international trade, and international food trade. Table of ContentsSection 1. Agri-Food Trade Policy and PracticeIntroduction: Is Russia’s Role in the International Agri-Food System Sustainable? (Stephen K. Wegren and Frode Nilssen) Chapter 1. Russia’s Foreign Food Trade: An Historical Survey (Stephen K. Wegren). Chapter 2. Russia’s Development as a Top Player in World Grain Trade (William Liefert and Olga Liefert). Chapter 3. The Role of Food Exports in Russia’s Economy (Nikolai M. Svetlov). Chapter 4. Maximilian Heigermoser, and Tinoush Jamali Jaghdani, Russia’s Food Security and Impact on Agri-Food Trade (Linde Götz). Chapter 5. Russia’s Role in International Fish and Seafood Trade (Frode Nilssen). Section 2. Russia’s Regional Agri-Food Trade Chapter 6. Russia’s Regional Free Trade Agreements and Agri-Food Trade after 2014 (Christel Elvestad and Tatiana Isachenko).Chapter 7. Prospects for Agri-Food Trade between Russia and China (Jiayi Zhou). Chapter 8. Russia’s Agri-Food Trade within the Eurasian Economic Union (Rilka Dragneva). Chapter 9. Russia’s Agri-Food Trade with the Middle East and North Africa (Maximilian Heigermoser, Tinoush Jamali Jaghdani, and Linde Götz). Chapter 10. Agri-Food Trade between the United States and Russia: From Divergence to Irrelevance (Stephen K. Wegren).
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG ClimateResilient Brassicas
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Die Nahrung der Optimisten: Eine Motivstudie zu
Book SynopsisDiese Studie gibt erstmalig einen umfassenden Einblick in die Motivstruktur zweier vergleichbarer Ernährungstrends. Durch den Konsum von Superfood oder Nahrungsergänzungsmitteln (NEM) werden die Werte Gesundheit, Lebensfreude und Selbstbewusstsein angestrebt. Grundlage der Motivstudie ist der Stand der Wissenschaft zu den gesundheitlichen Wirkungen von Superfoods und NEM. Die Ergebnisse können von Unternehmen als Basis für Neuproduktentwicklungen und zukünftige Kommunikationsstrategien eingesetzt werdenTable of ContentsErnährungstrend Superfoods.- Die Wirkung von Superfoods und NEM auf den menschlichen Organismus.- Ernährungstrend NEM.- Die Motivstrukturen hinter dem Konsum von Superfoods und NEM.
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New India Publishing Agency Entrepreneurship and Skill Development in
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New India Publishing Agency Entrepreneurship Development in Food Processing
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New India Publishing Agency Enterprising Agriculture: Market Awareness,Farm
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New India Publishing Agency Innovations in Agribusiness Management
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New India Publishing Agency Management Skills for Successful Agri
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New India Publishing Agency Agricultural Engineering: A Practical Manual
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New India Publishing Agency Agricultural Marketing Management
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New India Publishing Agency Agricultural Marketing: Perspectives and
Book SynopsisThe objective of this initiative is to increase public awareness about agricultural marketing and its potential in India, and to achieve this goal, we plan to invite authors from all over the country to contribute their expertise on the subject. The theme of the initiative will encompass all marketing aspects related to agriculture and its associated industries.
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New India Publishing Agency Advances in Agri-Management: General Management
Book SynopsisEconomics, which was once considered a static field, has become dynamic due to the changing nature of the economy in developing countries with mixed economies. The government's implementation of new policies has a significant impact on the lifestyles of individuals and the management capacity of business owners. In our daily lives, we often face situations where we must make decisions about fulfilling our basic needs with the resources available to us. The book Advances in Agri-Management has been published with the aim of enhancing the knowledge of students and anyone interested in the subject matter. The primary objective of this publication is to provide the academic community with insights and support in managing businesses in growing economies.
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NIAS Press The UP Saga
Book SynopsisHistories of the plantations sector in Malaysia have largely focused on the rubber industry and on the rise and fall of big British-owned colonial enterprises. But since independence, the sector has entered a new phase of spectacular growth founded on the oil palm. This volume offers a radically different history of a firm which spans both eras. The fascinating story of United Plantations Berhad (UP) highlights a Scandinavian-founded firm that evolved along quite different lines from the normal models of British imperial business. Tracing the company's origins before the First World War, it describes the crisis years of economic depression and Japanese occupation then on to the years of spectacular growth which has lasted since the time of the Emergency and Merdeka right up to the present day. The success of this firm - based not just on an extraordinary combination of agricultural, engineering and marketing innovation but also on the company's engagement and commitment to its local environment - provides a glowing example of a partnership between Europeans and Asians which has benefited both sides.
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United Nations Forest products: annual market review 2014-2015
Book SynopsisThis publication provides information on forest products markets and related policies in Europe, North America and the Commonwealth of Independent States. It begins with an overview chapter, followed by analysis of government and industry policies and market-based implements affecting forest products markets. The third chapter is on institutional forestland ownership. Five chapters are based on annual country-supplied statistics, describing: wood raw materials, sawn softwood, sawn hardwood, wood-based panels, and paper, paperboard and woodpulp. Additional chapters discuss markets for wood energy, value-added wood products, and housing. Production, trade and consumption are analyzed and relevant material on specific markets included.
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United Nations Forest Sector Outlook Study 2020-2040
Book SynopsisThe Forest Sector Outlook 2020-2040 study for the UNECE region provides information that supports decision-making by showing the possible medium- and long-term consequences of specific policy choices and structural changes, using scenario analyses whenever possible. The study is the first to cover the entire UNECE region and provides results for the main UNECE subregions of Europe, North America and the Russian Federation.
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New India Publishing Agency Business Communication and Cooperative Movement
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New India Publishing Agency Innovations in Agribusiness Management
Book SynopsisThe green revolution has increased the food production many folds but the levels of living of farmers have not increased and the percentage of population dependent on agricultural is still about 65 per cent. Agri-business management is an opportunity and challenge. Future agri-business brings in value addition, logistics and supply chain management activities which paved way for the processing, packaging, transport, a cold storage distribution and retailing to meet the changes in tastes and preferences of different categories of population. Exposure on agri-business management at the UG level to Agriculture and Allied Science graduates will meet human resource needs of the future. The book explains in simple language and in lucid way on agri-business opportunities, challenges, scope and entrepreneurship and its promotional programmes by Central and State Governments. Management, meaning, definition and elements of management are also explained in a simple way. The functional area of business management is also dealt with. Then agri-business promoting subjects like management information system, applications of information and communication technologies, agricultural inputs, agro-processing, food processing, there promotional programmes by Central and State Governments. Agricultural imports and exports, retailing and supply chain management, business plan preparation, project analysis and starting an agri-business are explained with case studies wherever possible. The pedagogy involves key terms and concepts to remember, summary, highlights, questions, references, text books, web addresses and further reading materials were furnished.
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New India Publishing Agency Agricultural Marketing Management
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New India Publishing Agency Advances in Agri-Management: General Management
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New India Publishing Agency Innovations in Food Processing Technology
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New India Publishing Agency Entrepreneurship Development in Food Processing
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New India Publishing Agency Entrepreneurship and Skill Development in
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New India Publishing Agency Solar Energy in Agriculture: Principles and A
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New India Publishing Agency Enterprising Agriculture: Market Awareness,Farm
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New India Publishing Agency Milk of Non Bovine Mammals: Chemistry and Health
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New India Publishing Agency Practical Understanding of Water Quality in
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Springer Economics of Agricultural Crop Insurance: Theory
Book SynopsisGovernment subsidized crop insurance has been used by a number of developed countries as a mechanism to reduce farm income instability by reducing yield risks. This book provides an in-depth analysis and evaluation of government provided crop insurance in developed countries. The book is organized into three sections: Part one presents background material on crop insurance programs in the U.S., Canada and selected other countries. Part two provides some analytical models of multiple peril crop insurance which suggest the possibility of modification of design which could improve performance and which explores theoretical linkages between crop insurance decisions and other producer decisions previously not analyzed. The main part of the book is Part three, where the results of a series of empirical studies using databases particularly designed to answer crop insurance questions are presented. This part of the book tests a number of the hypotheses which were raised in Parts one and two regarding reasons for the view widely held by economists that crop insurance has not functioned well. Table of Contents1. Introduction and Overview; D.L. Hueth, W.H. Furtan. I: Historical Prospectives and Overall Performance. 2. Crop Insurance in U.S. Farm Policy; B. Gardner. 3. An Aggregate Analysis of Canadian Crop Insurance Policy; D. Sigurdson, R. Sin. 4. All-Risk Crop Insurance: Lessons from Theory and Experience; B.D. Wright, J.A. Hewitt. II: Conceptual Issues. 5. The Optimal Design of Crop Insurance; J. Quiggin. 6. Agricultural Insurance, Production and the Environment; R. Innes, S. Ardila. 7. Crop Insurance in the Context of Canadian and U.S. Farms Programs; A. Schmitz, R.E. Just, W.H. Furtan. III: Applications and Policy Studies. 8. An Empirical Analysis of U.S. Participation in Crop Insurance; R. Just, L. Calvin. 9. Crop Insurance and Crop Production: an Empirical Study of Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection; J. Quiggin, G. Karagiannis, J. Stanton. 10. Crop Insurance Decisions and Financial Characteristics of Farms; H. Leathers. 11. Risk Reduction from Diversification and Crop Insurance in Saskatchewan; R.A. Schoney, J.S. Taylor, K. Hayward. 12. Crop Insurance and Agricultural Chemical Use; J. Horowitz, E. Lichtenberg. 13. Crop Insurance: its Influence on Land and Input Use Decisions in Saskatchewan; W. Weisensel, W.H. Furtan, A. Schmitz. 14. Providing Catastrophic Yield Protection through a Target Revenue Program; J. Glauber, M. Miranda. Author Index. Subject Index.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Contract Farming, Capital and State:
Book SynopsisThe book argues that an increasing corporatisation of agriculture in India that is enabled by its neoliberal State, in the name of ‘development’, is contributing towards deepening of inequality in the rural India.It says that Contract Farming (CF) acts as a conduit that enables the coming together of myriad production relations (mercantile, finance, productive) to sell agri-commodities to the capitalist peasant. It is an accumulation strategy that brings together various factions of domestic and foreign capital together. It shows that CF as an accumulation strategy is enabled by an active interventionist state and this neoliberal Indian state mediates the relation between the agri-capital and Indian peasantry. The book further analyzes contract farming as a part of the totality of the capitalist mode of production in context of developing countries with a large agrarian base--- asking three fundamental questions – what is CF, how and why is it done and what are the implications of it.Table of Contents1: Introduction and Rethinking Contract Farming.- 2: Punjab: An Interesting place to study Agrarian Change .- 3: Understanding the Social Relations of Contract Farming .- 4: Stating the (not so) obvious: The ‘Interventionist Neoliberal State’ in India.- 5: Understanding CF: CF as a strategy to enable dispossession-free accumulation strategy.- 6:Implications of CF 01: Technology Rhetoric in Contract Farming.- 7: Implications 02: Social Effects of Contract Farming.- 8: Conclusion: Are the Global Agri-Corporates saving the Third World Peasantry?.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Indian Agriculture Towards 2030: Pathways for
Book SynopsisThis open access book brings together varying perspectives for transformational change needed in India’s agriculture and allied sectors. Stressing the need of thinking for a post-Green Revolution future, the book promotes approaching this change through eight broad areas, indicating the policy shifts needed to meet the challenges for the coming decade (2021-2030).The book comprises of ten contributions. Apart from the overview chapter on transformational change and the concluding chapter on pathways for 2030, there are eight thematic chapters on topics such as transforming Indian agriculture, dietary diversity for nutritive and safe food; climate crisis and risk management; water in agriculture; pests, pandemics, preparedness and biosecurity natural farming; agroecology and biodiverse futures; science, technology and innovation in agriculture; and structural reforms and governance. The writing style of these papers written by technical experts is forward-looking—not merely an analysis of what has been and why it was so, but what ought to be.This is an essential reading for those interested in agriculture, food and nutrition sectors of India, and more so their interconnectedness.Trade Review“The book packages a lot of information covering ecological, social and economic aspects of agriculture and would make an interesting read for students and researchers alike. … the book is well referenced and provides a much needed timely overview of the interventions in place and those needed for accelerating sustainable growth of agriculture in India.” (Priya Priyadarshini, Amit Kumar Bundela and Krishna Kumar Pandey, Anthropocene Science, Vol. 1 (2), 2022)Table of ContentsChapter 1. Transformational Change.- Chapter 2. Transforming Indian Agriculture.- Chapter 3. Dietary Diversity for Nutritive and Safe food.- Chapter 4. Climate Crisis and Risk Management.- Chapter 5. Water in Agriculture.- Chapter 6. Pests, Pandemics, Preparedness and Biosecurity.- Chapter 7. Natural Farming, Agroecology and Biodiverse Futures.- Chapter 8. Science, Technology and Innovation.- Chapter 9. Structural Reforms and Governance.- Chapter 10. Pathways for 2030.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore AgroTech: AI, Big Data, IoT
Book SynopsisThis book deals with the consistent elaboration of the research and practice basis for agricultural development based on Agrotech using groundbreaking technologies AI, big data and IoT. The authors have presented a new scientific view of agriculture in Agrotech. International experience in the formation and development of Agrotech has been reviewed and analyzed. Current problems in agriculture have been identified, and prospects for solving them with the use of Agrotech have been outlined. The authors have identified strategic development priorities of Agrotech and their advantages which include: first, the transition to extended reproduction in Agrotech for overcoming global hunger and ensuring food security, second, emergence of climate-resilient agriculture in Agrotech for the risk management in agribusiness, third, emergence of regenerative land use in Agrotech to improve the ecological efficiency of agriculture, fourth, creating high-performance jobs in Agrotech and ensuring the responsibility of agribusiness and fifth, development of autonomous agricultural production based on Agrotech to ensure food security in countries with adverse climate for agriculture. Applied recommendations for the development of Agrotech for agribusiness and state authorities managing the agricultural economy. Special chapter of the book deals with the elaboration of possible suggestions on legislative and normative aspects of AgroTech for developed and developing countries, making it possible to supplement recommendations for business with applied solutions and suggestions on State and legal regulation of AgroTech. Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1. AgroTech: a new model of agriculture under the conditions of the digital economy based on AI, Big Data and IoT Chapter 1. Farm Machinery Depots in Technical and Digital Support of Agriculture Chapter 2. Directions for Stimulating Digitalization in the Agricultural Sector of the Russian Economy Chapter 3. Agroecology in the Context of Sustainable Development: Improving the Environmental Information SystemChapter 4. Green Energy Stimulating State Policy as a Factor of New Economic Cycle Formation Chapter 5. Study of “Digital Portraits” and Value Priorities of Rural and Urban Residents as a Component of Strategic Planning and Forecasting of Rural Socio-Economic Development Part 2. Case experience of the formation and development of AgroTech in Russia and its regions Chapter 6. Issues Related to the Implementation of Russian Regulatory Documents Harmonized with International Approaches Regarding Food Safety Control Chapter 7. Prerequisites for the Administrative Reform of Rural Areas (on the Example of the Republic of Bashkortostan) Chapter 8. Development of Digital Regional Ecosystems: Russian Specifics and Risk Leveling Chapter 9. Prospects for the Development of Export-Oriented Agricultural Production in the Stavropol Region Chapter 10.The Value of Cooperation and Tendencies of its Development in the Agricultural Business of Geostrategic Border Territories Chapter 11. Current Global and Russian Trends in the Development of Investment and Innovation in the Agro-Industrial ComplexChapter 12. Economic Efficiency of Anti-stress and Phytohormone Preparations in Cultivation of Spring Rape in Soil and Climatic Conditions of the Republic of Tatarstan Part 3. The current problems of agriculture and the perspectives of their resolution based on AgroTech Chapter 13.Quality as an Integral Component of the Reproduction of Technical Resources in AgricultureChapter 14. Environmental and Economic Problems of Using the Biofuel MarketChapter 15. Assessment of Trends in Financial Indicators of State Support for the Agricultural Sector in the Context of Integration InteractionsChapter 16. The Design of Learning Results According to International CDIO Standards as a Context for Improving Engineering Education at Agrarian UniversityChapter 17. Environmental Controlling as a Tool for Strategic Management of Sustainable Development of an Agricultural OrganizationChapter 18. Psychosemantic Analysis of the Economic Consciousness of Students of Agricultural University under the Conditions of Digitalization of the Economy Chapter 19. Food Security Challenges to Agriculture and a Promising Response to Them in AgroTechPart 4. Applied recommendations and frameworks of the development of AgroTechChapter 20. Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence in Stockbreeding and Forecasting Dairy Cattle Productivity Chapter 21. Blockchain Information System – A Tool for Digitalization of the Agricultural SectorChapter 22. Effects of Replacing Cereal Concentrates with Grain-Free Feeds on Growth and Development of Weaned FoalsChapter 23. Applied Solutions for Launching Autonomous Agricultural Production Based on AgroTech and their Contribution to Sustainable Innovation in Agribusiness Chapter 24. 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