This bulletin is the first in a series of bulletins addressing financial performance of farms. Two measures of …-to-day business of farming for various farm types. Both measures are calculated on the historical cost of the assets as opposed to …

The issue of convergence or divergence of productivity has important policy for regional poverty reduction and ….1 percent in Iran and Somalia. The results of convergence test indicate that, from among 9 countries under consideration only … increasing standards of living. If productivity converges to a common level without intervention, there is little need for …

process of convergence of divergence takes place there. On the basis of selected features, the synthetic indicator of economic … convergence within the entire research area. Convergence can be seen only in small groups of acceding gminas. However, high …The research is aimed at presenting economic development trends of the gminas in Poland and concluding whether the …

local basis for Kansas wheat has changed dramatically relative to historic levels, causing greater risk exposure for … elevators offering forward contracts. The result has been an increase in the cost of forward contracting paid by farmers from $0 …

, studies of Chinese scholars on the convergence between rural minimum subsistence system and the development policies of … that there is no omnipotent experience to follow in the convergence of minimum subsistence security system and poverty …Based on the conclusion of the related researches on China’s rural poverty alleviation policies and poverty problems …

This work analyzes the convergence of land productivity for Brazilian regions from 1991 to 2003. It evaluates if there … is or not convergence of the agricultural productivity, controlling explicitly for spatial effects. To do so, an … exploratory spatial data analysis was previously implemented and the presence of spatial autocorrelation for the land productivity …

The study analyzes the convergence of the labor productivity in the Brazilian agricultural sector in the nineties … there will be a convergence of the states with regard to the labor productivity. In three of these five sectors the states … in another sector the states will move to a class of high productivity. The time required for convergence of the …

the simulations with the absolute β-convergence, parameters were significant (α =1%) and signs of these theoretically … consistent. These results support the convergence of GDPAGpc for each state of the country to a steady state condition. The … conditional β-convergence revealed significant (α =1%) of the estimated parameters and their signals theoretically consistent …

factors for the evaluation of economic vulnerability to food consumption and diversity of food structure, which we also based … insecurity. Our main aim is to fill up the gap of analysing regional food vulnerability in a socioeconomic point of view in China … reality of food insecurity. …