Food production in 2050 will be sufficient, globally, but many of the poor will remain food insecure. The primary cause of food insecurity will continue to be poverty, rather than inadequate food production. Thus, policies and investments that increase the incomes of the poor will remain the...

Excessive salt rate can adversely influence the physical, chemical, and biological properties of soils, mainly in arid and semi-arid world regions. Therefore, salt-affected soils must be reclaimed to maintain satisfactory fertility levels for increasing food production. Different approaches have...

This paper investigates whether climate "shocks" (or short-term but sharp changes in climatic conditions), El Niño and La Niña, have significant impacts on inflation in the country. Using regional panel data and information from PAGASA, this study finds that both of these weather shocks have...

The agriculture has represented an important source of food for mankind since the ancient times. Romania is a country that has fertile soils and a climate that offers favorable conditions for agriculture. These conditions can also be found in the Oltenia S-W Region where the agriculture...

Romania has been particularly interested in rice culture since the 1930s through culture and biology technology, which has made it possible to capitalize less productive land productivity on other crops. In the present study we will analyze the technical indicators of the cultivated area and the...

This paper aims to analyze the economic efficiency at the macroeconomic level of the agricultural sector in Romania, in order to determine the level of profitability or feasibility regarding this economic sector, respectively agriculture. In order to be able to determine the global economic...

Maize, original from America, ranks third in the top of cereal crops as importance and ranks second in the international top, after wheat cultivation, these positions being acquired due to a series of particularities I presume: high production capacity, wide area spreading, ecological elasticity...

In this article we discuss whether there was a single Latin American pattern of agricultural growth between 1950 and 2008. We analyse the sources of growth of agricultural production and productivity in ten Latin American countries. Our results show that the differences between these countries...

The growing demand for food and energy, in the face of population growth, is an increasingly present theme in debates about agriculture. In the last century, innovations were fundamental to achieve population growth, such as the Green Revolution and its importance for the introduction of...

The purpose of this paper is to assess the impacts of decoupling single farm payments in Scotland. It focuses on aggregate impacts on the agricultural products in domestic and external markets and the spill-over effect of this on the non-agricultural sector as well as an aggregate impact on the...