Purpose: This paper aims to understand the significant farm and market-level factors that incentivize the adoption and marketing of pulses influencing its supply response to changing demand. Design/methodology/approach: The authors first use a modified Nerlovian supply response model using...

1. Indian Food Systems towards 2050: Challenges and Opportunities -- 2. Economic Growth, Agriculture and Food Systems: Explaining Regional Diversity -- 3. Rural Livelihood Challenges: Moving out of Agriculture -- 4.Diet Diversity and the Declining Importance of Staple Grains -- 5.The Nutrition...

This study examines the determinants of a firm's decision to utilize a dividend reinvestment plan (“DRP”) and shareholder participation rates under the Australian dividend imputation regime over the period 1995–2009. A DRP enables managers to increase the dividend payout and distribute...