After the financial crisis in 1997, the Thai government established and promoted financial services to rural areas to improve the quality of life of rural households and increase the productivity and technical efficiency of farmers. This paper seeks to investigate the impact of financial...

Farm profitability can be increased through the selection of genetically superior animals as future breeders. In genetic improvement programs, candidates for breeders are ranked by the profitability of their offspring, expressed as a weighted sum of the genetic gain from selection. Genetic...

Rainwater harvesting is increasingly seen as a strategy for enhancing agricultural productivity and boosting farm income in many drought prone areas. While extensive efforts are going on in constructing and providing smallholder farmers with water harvesting structures, such as ponds in Rwanda,...

Land is a natural resource that is valued for many reasons. Farmers utilize land to earn their livelihood and as a store of wealth for future retirement. Rural residents have increasingly sought open space for home sites and pursuit of a lifestyle. Developers seek financial opportunities to...

Land is a natural resource that is valued for many reasons. Farmers utilize land to earn their livelihood and as a store of wealth for future retirement. Rural residents have increasingly sought open space for home sites and pursuit of a lifestyle. Developers seek financial opportunities to...

En este trabajo se abordan las principales particularidades asociadas al regimen del derecho de separacion de los socios disconformes en un proceso de fusion cooperativa. Al mismo tiempo, ante la reciente aprobacion del nuevo Plan General Contable, aprobado por Real Decreto 1514/2007, de 16 de...

El documento aborda la situacion en America Latina y el Caribe en torno a dos preguntas: le fue bien a la agricultura (en terminos de aumento del valor agregado, de la productividad, de las exportaciones)? Y le fue bien a los agentes activos en la agricultura, es decir a las empresad que tienen...