Deterioration of crop yields due to exploitive cropping systems (CS) is a worldwide problem reducing profitability for farmers, food availability for consumers and inducing poor utilisation of rainfall. Following a diagnostic approach, likely constraints were identified and corresponding...

Die deutsche Fläche an Kurzumtriebsplantagen (KUP) ist in den letzten drei Jahren überproportional stark angestiegen, und für 2011 geht die FNR von über 4.000 ha kommerziell genutzten Plantagen aus. Die größten KUP-Flächen befinden sich in Brandenburg (~ 1.600 ha), Niedersachsen (~ 700...

Indo-US relations have undergone a dramatic transformation over the past decade, and the positive change is likely to be long-lasting. The Obama administration benefits from the strong underlying momentum behind recently improved bilateral relations. While important long-standing differences...

A reaction function, an interest rate adjustment policy, is identified that might have improved price stability and reduced economic oscillations over the past several decades. The dynamic relationship between the Federal funds rate, the CPI, and a vector of macroeconomic variables is estimated....

The Patton-Nelson Personal Consumption Tables were last published in the Spring Summer, 1991 issue of the Journal of Forensic Economics. The Consumer Expenditure Data, 1994-95 which was made available by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) in December, 1996 is the most current and comprehensive...