This paper presents issues and challenges for farm and enterprise diversification and integration of small scale farmers into value chains in East Europe and Central Asia (EECA). First, it discuses context and approaches to agricultural and rural income diversification. Second, it assesses the...

Indian agriculture is getting increasingly commercialized and monetized and the volume and proportion of output that enters into market is on the rise. This shows, that along with optimization of production, producers have to achieve optimization of sale to realize best returns to their efforts...

The number of hungry in the world has crossed the one billion mark, a dubious milestone that has been attributed in large part to consecutive food and economic crises. Over ninety-eight percent of these individuals live in the developing world. Ironically, a great majority are involved in food...

Modern global food supply chains are characterized by extreme levels of concentration in the middle of those chains. This paper argues that such concentration leads to excessive buyer power, which harms the consumers and food producers at the ends of the supply chains. This paper argues that the...

This chapter from the forthcoming Cambridge University Press volume Gene Patents and Clearing Models: From Concepts to Cases comments on the international FAO treaty for sharing genetic resources and on proposals by Rai et al. to create a shared testing system for small molecule pharmaceutical...

The article reflects the main approaches on formation of the general system for managerial staff training and advanced training for local authorities and rural economy. It suggests new educational programmes for mastering technologies of public and corporate management taking into account local...

The March 11, 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear plant accident have had immense impacts on Japanese agri-food sector. Previous analysis has demonstrated that some of the impacts that triple disaster are difficult to identify and assess due to the insufficient information, controversial data,...

The Indian government’s latest series of farm laws (a set of three acts) have sparked protests by farmers around the country. This viewpoint argues that the new farm laws are designed to deepen capitalism within the countryside by liberalising agricultural trade in the country. It highlights...

This study aims to determine how feelings of nationalism or patriotism for one's own country and feelings of animosity for countries that are in political conflict affect consumers’ willingness to refrain from buying products from various origins. Four hundred forty-two shoppers participated...