This paper suggests that a Leontief type input-output technique has an unrealized potential as the basis for efficient data systems. A model in the process of development for the UK livestock, meat, and meat products industry is used as an example. An expansive discussion of agricultural data...

Nearly 90 percent of the world's natural disasters occur in 1DCs. Agricultural sectors are particularly prone to economic damage from natural disaster, yet, economic analyses of agricultural development projects seldom recognize the potential impacts of natural disasters on project net benefits....

Through a series of economic development plans launched since 1953, Taiwan's economy has been transformed from bemgpredommantly agricultural to having industry as the leadmg sector. Throughout that process, farmers faced more and more uncertamt1es. Instead of an increase m farm size due to the...

The interaction between macroeconomic and trade issues and agriculture is not well understood. In sub-Saharan Africa, this relation becomes critical in recent structural adjustment programmes, especially in countries where agriculture is the mainstay of the economy. This paper examines...

The economic dimension of science has been one of the most treated problems in economics during the past three and a half decades. Over 6,000 publications appeared on the assessment of research results; several hundred formulae have been proposed to measure the efficiency of research workers,...

Although the external effects of agricultural production receive considerable attention, the measurement of these effects is not well developed. In this paper, after introducing a theoretical approach, the methodology is applied to the Netherlands. The method used requires information about the...

In contrast to the increasing use of GM plants in world-wide agriculture, the acceptance of GM food is still low in the European Union (EU). In order to ensure freedom of choice for consumers and users of GM and non-GM products, GM food and feed products have to be labeled in case a tolerance...

A changing world of increasing complexity, fluctuating prices, high energy costs and limited data necessitate creative blending of economic theory and available empirical statistics to understand the welfare impacts in a specific market. In this paper, a programming approach is used in tandem...

A regime-switching vector error correction model is applied to monthly price data to assess the impact of BSE outbreaks on price relationships and patterns of transmission among farm and retail markets for bovine in Spain. To evaluate the degree to which price transmission is affected by BSE...