An empirical bid-rent model is applied with a multinomial logit (MNL) for analyses of rice production in Japan, which is characterized by cultivation by producers working with various farm sizes. By combining plot and farm databases, the distances to respective field plots from potential holders...

Growth in agricultural production in Thailand can no longer rely mainly on an extension of land area. New technology inputs such as fertilisers, mechanisation, water and chemicals have been adopted. This change has raised questions about the technical change and productivity growth in Thai...

This paper examines potential land use changes in Africa under climate change by building an integrated model of crop management, animal husbandry, and forestry. Using micro-level decisions from around 9000 household surveys in 11 countries, we analyze the choice of land types across the...

Understanding how producers make decisions to allot acreage among crops and how decisions about land use are affected by changes in prices and their volatility is fundamental for predicting the supply of staple crops and, hence, assessing the global food supply situation. The innovations of the...

Income poverty levels are increasingly getting worse among the majority (84%) of rural Ugandans who drive their livelihoods primarily from Agriculture. Mostly driven by declining land productivity resulting from waning soil fertility, limited use of land augmenting technologies and increasing...

Agricultural and forestry GHG emissions are a key feature of New Zealand’s emissions profile, and New Zealand is the only country, to date, to have indicated that agricultural and forestry emissions will be covered under their domestic climate policy – the New Zealand Emissions Trading...

Over the last decade, following the doi moi reforms, the Vietnamese government has formally recognised the household as the basic unit of production and allocated land use rights to households. Under the 1993 Land Law these rights can be transferred, exchanged, leased, inherited, and mortgaged....

En este trabajo se exponen los cambios occuridos en la agricultura colombiana entre los anos de 1980 y 2005, detallando la evolucion de la distribucion de la propiedad rural, del uso del suelo y de la orientacion productiva. El analisis confirma la persistencia de los procesos de concentracion...

El presente trabajo analiza el tipo de getsion del olivar, o su posible reconversion al bosque mediterraneo, que maximiza la provision de bienes y servicios comerciales y no comerciales de este sistema agrario. Metodologicamente se combinan tecnicas de analisis multiveriterio de agregacion de...

El presente trabajo analiza el tipo de gestion del oliver, o su posible reconversion al bosque mediterraneo, que maximiza la probision de bienes y servicios comerciales y no comerciales de este sistema agrario. Metodologicamente se combinan tecnicas de analisis multicriterio de agregacion de...