In an environment of low returns to agricultural activities and slow structural change, both employment and enterprise diversification have been presented as possible strategies for raising the incomes of farm households. This paper focuses on the barriers to taking up off-farm employment and...

American agricultural law's environmental record is a legacy of legislative failure. Most of the blame can and should be attributed to the failure of the law to separate ecological objectives from competing and ultimately contradictory economic objectives. Two strains of agroecological fallacies...

This paper aims to analyze the income composition in rural households in Brazil between 1992 and 2001. Non-farm income and regional disparities are emphasized. The main result indicates a tendency towards income diversification, mostly due to the increase of income provided by the system of...

In an environment of low returns to agricultural activities and slow structural change, both employment and enterprise diversification have been presented as possible strategies for raising the incomes of farm households. This paper focuses on the barriers to taking up off-farm employment and...

Computer Model for performance evaluation and economic risk is a model complex based on appropriate methodologies with specific indicators, necessary to administer the agricultural farm, management, efficient and increase its productivity. System of indicators is intended as a centralized source...

Agriculture has always played a key role in our society, it has changed and adapted during the years until now with the award of a multifunctional role of agriculture in the wider socio-economic context. Among the non-agricultural activities is the '"Social Agriculture" which, although not yet...

ABSTRACT The few academic papers on this topic are summarized as those published by international institutions such as the OECD, under the economic aspect and the balance between the trade- offs of implementing measures, some universities with specialist departments in the shipping market (eg...

Cotton production in West and Central Africa (WCA) has contributed to growth and poverty reduction. Recently, the objective of poverty alleviation has been adversely impacted by the downward pressures on world prices (exacerbated by subsidies by major cotton producers outside Africa). Several...

Para hacer realidad su potencial exportador lechero, el país debe crear los mecanismos financieros y de apoyo que soporten las transformaciones productivas y comerciales que ello demanda. El presente estudio tiene como objetivo la evaluación de algunos mecanismos de estabilización y...

Antidumping laws have been on the books for many years, but it has only been in the last few decades that they have taken on such a degree of importance. As World Trade Organization rules reduce the importance of tariffs and quotas, antidumping laws are rising to take their place as a major tool...