Using the Agricultural, Environmental, and Food Literature

Using the Agricultural, Environmental, and Food Literature

Author: Barbara S. Hutchinson

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2002-07-17

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 1135563098

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This reference provides the groundwork, tools, and terminology required when conducting specialized searches for information and resources pertaining to traditional and emerging fields of agriculture. The editors present 16 contributions from librarians and other information workers that offer information on research resources across the academic a


Use and Potential of Wild Plants in Farm Households

Use and Potential of Wild Plants in Farm Households

Author: Vernon Hilton Heywood

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9789251041512

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This book is designed to raise awareness of the use of wild plants in farming systems around the world. It describes the contribution of wild plants as a source of food, fuel wood, shelter, medicines and dyes, and their role in income generation for the improved welfare of farm households and local people. Wild plants are also of paramount importance as sources of wild germplasm that might enhance the productivity, disease resistance, winter hardiness, drought survival of cultured species. This publication analyses the potential of wild species, as well as the natural, social, economic, legal and institutional factors that constrain their use and development potential.


Agricultural Sector in India

Agricultural Sector in India

Author: Mruthyunjaya

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-09-06

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 1000953130

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This book presents a comprehensive overview of a range of concepts, methods, strategies and policies in agriculture and natural resource management, environmental economics, production economics and sustainable agricultural development. It explores effective analytical tools and science, innovations, and management solutions to enhance yields, manage the supply chain, strengthen institutional mechanisms, and service and support systems for farmers. It highlights the importance of enabling policies which can benefit farmers, resulting in cost-efficient and quality-improving farm practices, increased profits and income for farmers, and better management of natural resources. The essays in the book honour the academic, teaching, and research contributions of Professor R. Ramanna in the field of agricultural economics. They also address issues which are relevant to the growing research in sustainable agricultural development and natural resource management including the use of new concepts, tools, analyses, technologies, innovations, and policy strategies modelled in local contexts that can easily be scaled and applied to similar contexts elsewhere. This book will be of interest and use to students, researchers, practitioners,and policymakers working in varied fields of agricultural economics, sustainable development, public policy, rural sociology, political economy, economics of innovation, institutional economics, and industrial organisation.


Digital Opportunities for Better Agricultural Policies

Digital Opportunities for Better Agricultural Policies

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2019-09-23

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9264887857

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Recent digital innovations provide opportunities to deliver better policies for the agriculture sector by helping to overcome information gaps and asymmetries, lower policy-related transaction costs, and enable people with different preferences and incentives to work better together. Drawing on ten illustrative case studies and unique new data gathered via an OECD questionnaire on agri-environmental policy organisations' experiences with digital tools, this report explores opportunities to improve current agricultural and agri-environmental policies, and to deliver new, digitally enabled and information-rich policy approaches.


Agricultural Risk, Insurance and Income

Agricultural Risk, Insurance and Income

Author: Pramod Kumar Mishra

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13:

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This is probably the first comprehensive study, based on farm-level data, of an area-yield crop insurance scheme with an international perspective. The author questions the conventional wisdom that crop insurance does not work.