Rural development projects are aimed at reducing: (1) the large differences in income between urban and rural areas; and (2) the income inequality that persists within rural areas because of the large differences in access to agricultural assets (particularly land), to social services (such as...

Agriculture is the main source of food for the world, and food is the basic input in the daily sustenance of humans. Yet, in many parts of the world there is insufficient food, which in turn implies inadequate agricultural output. The reasons for inadequate agricultural production are many and...

Socialist Yugoslavia has chosen industrialization as the basic pattern of economic development. This orientation hfls been given a vigorous impetus by the development of socialist self-management socioeconomic relations based on social ownership of the means of production.

Mathematical models are derived measuring the social benefit and cost of information in comparison to the social benefit or cost of an input (fertilizer) subsidy under different factor market assumptions. In 1975, 54 countries subsidized fertilizers (FAO). In the following countries, the subsidy...

Agriculture is one of the least stable Canadian industries with respect to product prices, the volume of production of many products, and the net incomes received by farmers. Each of these aspects of instability has negative impacts on the income and financial security of farmers as well as on...

Although agriculture uses only a small share of the world's total energy consumption, it is generally recognized that its needs are crucial, since the existing technologies for increasing production rely so heavily on energy intensive inputs. It therefore becomes imperative to find ways of...