In Russland ergab sich mit der Einführung marktwirtschaftlicher Verhältnisse im Agrar- und Ernährungssektor im Zuge des gesamtwirtschaftlichen Transformationsprozesses für die Agrarhochschulen des Landes die Notwendigkeit das Lehrprogramm entsprechend umzustellen. Dazu gehörte die...

Deregulation is a widely suggested strategy to make agricultural markets efficient. In this article, we critically examine the recent reforms undertaken in India aiming to deregulate agricultural markets. Our analysis is from the perspective of the potential of market reforms to benefit farmers....

The history of agricultural markets in developing countries reflects attempts to establish the appropriate government responses to the inefficiencies created by incomplete institutional and physical infrastructure and imperfect competition. Government intervention in the 1960s and 1970s to...

The recent trend of development policy makes emphasis on gender disparity in performance, especially in the agricultural sector whereby women partake and play a crucial role and their contribution to the sector cannot be overemphasized. However, the contention is whether such disparity in...