There are 2.6 billion people in the world that earn less than $2USD/day and over three quarters of them acquire their living either directly from agriculture production or are very closely associated with it. Economic growth in the agriculture and rural sectors is more important than economic...

The major issues in agribusiness have to deal with the industrialization of primary agricultural production and the high degree of market concentration in all of the industry's other sectors. Even primary agricultural production is shifting rapidly form “farming to systemâ€. The...