Agricultural Product Prices and Agricultural Marketing

Agricultural Marketing and Development In

Smallholder participation in agricultural markets in Mozambique has been historically very low. The majority of rural smallholders are subsistenceoriented, devote the majority of their labor and assets to agricultural activities and rely on crop production for over two thirds of their total household income. Household survey results indicate that the poorest 40% of smallholders sell very little...

Factors affecting agricultural land prices

n the twenty years that preceded 1920 I there was a 245 percent increase in the average per-acre price of farmland (including improvements) before land values fell sharply. Today’s escalation in land values-364 percent between 1957 and 1977-prompts some pointed questions: Have land prices reached their peak? If not, when will they plateau, if ever? Will they then decline and, if so, will the de...

Location determinants of agricultural land prices

This paper analyses determinants of agricultural land prices in Sweden with a particular focus on location-specific factors. An asset-pricing model is used to decompose agricultural land prices into expected returns from land in its current agricultural use and expected returns from its potential use. The model is estimated in a cross regional context where explanatory factors relate to regiona...

Marketing for the Value-Added Agricultural Enterprise

A Fundamental Review of Agricultural Marketing

What is the role, function, and intent of agricultural marketing? Most farmers would be ill-prepared to answer this question. They remain in awe of the entire process and express confusion, or even contempt, when the topic of marketing emerges. Earlier in our history, the role of marketing focused on the act of market clearing, the function revolved around the physical transfer of the product, ...