Index-insurance is becoming increasingly popular because of its ability to provide low-cost, relatively easy to implement agricultural insurance for vegetation types whose productivity has been notoriously difficult to measure and to farmers in less-developed nations where traditional crop...

The relationships between food systems, law, and the environment are strong. The ecological costs of modern industrial and large-scale food production are driven by greenhouse gas emissions, fertilizers and pesticides, and food miles, as well as agricultural law. Food choices contribute to the...

The complexity of managing physical and financial risk throughout the commodity production, processing and merchandising chain presents numerous challenges. To solve this problem commercials are increasingly turning to Energy and Commodity Transaction Risk Management (E/CTRM) systems. Still,...

The agriculture in Bihar is still grappled with low investment and low input agriculture and therefore besides low productivity, growth in production and productivity of most of the major crops are quite low as compared to other developed states. Though agriculture contributes more than 40 per...

A regulação da propriedade privada pode ser considerada como a forma mais essencial de regulação. O caráter central da regulação da propriedade privada para a maioria dos sistemas jurídicos não se justifica apenas do ponto de vista acadêmico ou ideológico. Tal entendimento tem uma...

The paper addresses the influence of various types of taxes on the change of differential (Ricardian) land rent, and the economic performance of agricultural producers. Labor and capital taxes lead to higher prices for agricultural products, causing a decrease in consumer demand and lower income...

The lowering of import duties on pork from August 2012 following Russia's accession to the WTO resulted in the decrease of prices for this product and the decline of profitability of domestic pig production. Combined with a whole set of other factors this dragged the problems of the sector forth...

This paper is designed to provide different explanations for the existence of credit-product interlinkage in backward agriculture. The paper shows that the credit market imperfection is not the only explanation for the existence of credit-product interlinkage. It can also be explained in terms...

English Abstract: In the last few decades, vegetable production in greenhouses has been more and more presented within the national agriculture. On small agricultural holdings, in aforementioned form of protected production area, dominate the tomato, cucumber and pepper growing. However, in...