Small-Farm Sugar Production in Fiji: Employment and Distribution Aspects

Off-farm employment in relation to small-scale livelihoods and natural resource management in China

Agency costs, corporate governance and the Fiji Sugar Corporation

Pacific Economic Bulletin Volume 21 Number 2 2006 © Asia Pacific Press The Fiji Sugar Corporation, the sole miller in Fiji, has experienced declining financial performance for over a decade, despite Fiji enjoying sugar prices two to three times the average world price. The corporation’s poor financial performance has primarily been blamed on the increase in burnt cane. This paper tests the impo...

Transgene escape in sugar beet production fields: data from six years farm scale monitoring.

Concerns have been raised in Europe about the efficiency, sustainability, and environmental impact of the first genetically modified crops. The committees and regulators in charge of approving procedures have encouraged a field trial approach for safety assessment studies under current agronomic conditions. We describe the gene flow from sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) in a multi-year and multi-c...

Farm Production

A burgeoning body of literature highlights asymmetric information among household members. However, little is known about the source of the asymmetry and its effect on efficiency. Using a unique survey of Ghanaian households, we examine the accuracy of spousal cross reports and the effect of discrepancies on farm production. We find that information problems pertain to scale (the quantity of re...

Machinery investment decision and off-farm employment in rural China☆

Article history: Received 28 February 2011 Received in revised form 13 July 2011 Accepted 8 August 2011 Available online 19 September 2011 This paper investigates the endogenous linkages between farmers' machinery investment decision and off-farm employment in China. Both the theoretical model and the empirical results based on a survey of 453 households in Anhui Province indicate that agricult...