In many low-income countries, agriculture is mostly rain-fed and yields highly depend on climatic factors. Furthermore …

Interactions between food demand, biomass energy and forest preservation are driving both food prices and land … biophysics and economics into a single coherent framework to calculate crop yields, food prices, and resulting pasture and …

This paper analyses futures prices for four energy commodities (light sweet crude oil, heating oil, gasoline and …

This paper evaluates how different types of speculation affect the volatility of commodities’ futures prices. We adopt …

important determinants of price. We find that prices are strongly determined by sub-AVA appellation designations, but not by …

economy. This might be happening already in many places with the modernization of irrigated agriculture, the world’s largest …

agriculture and water resources, and emphasis on underground resources. Our objective is mainly descriptive at this level …; nonetheless, we try to evaluate patterns of interaction between agriculture and water resources policy from the point of view of … analysis of the most important issues and ongoing policies. We show that the link between agriculture and groundwater is but …

the human interventions in fields like: agriculture, land-use/land use change, construction/management of reservoirs …