The article provides an overview of the main contents a brand new textbook on agricultural economics and evaluates them in context economic theories concepts as well against background developments. In addition, second part presents outstanding contribution author to research teaching.

Poor access to agricultural market information is a major factor constraining the performance of agricultural markets in developing countries. The search for new strategies for resolving this constraint has led to several ICT-based market information service (MIS) projects in developing countries. At the same time, the rapid penetration of new generation ICT tools (especially mobile phones) has...

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, ...

INTRODUCTION Agricultural technologies developed by national and international research institutions were not benefiting the rural population of Ethiopia to the extent desired. As a response, integrated agricultural extension approaches are proposed as a key strategy to transform the smallholder farming sector. Improving Productivity and Market Success (IPMS) of Ethiopian Farmers project is one...

The agriculture is traditional risky business, but in transition countries agricultural producers should face some additional difficulties. The agri-food chains are still suffering from underdeveloped market institutions creating severe barriers for price discovery and high transaction costs to co-ordinate market exchanges. Co-operatives are usually neglected as a possible governance structure ...

Many cases of externalities in agricultural production such as pesticide drift, crosspollination, and offensive odors are attributable to the incompatibility of neighboring land uses. This paper offers an examination of when an efficient activity arrangement is compatible with free-market incentives. Also, free-market and socially efficient activity arrangements are characterized in terms of sp...

Purpose: We focus on systematically discussing the impact of China’s accession to WTO and the financial crisis on China’s exports to Germany, particularly in agricultural products, based on some most recent proposals. Design/methodology/approach: The study follows a two-stage framework. Firstly, structural breaks caused by those events are detected. Then suitable econometric models and a new tr...

This paper is on the basis of the former evaluation system of intensive use of agricultural land, unifying the actual situation of new countryside construction in our country, to analysis the intensive use degree of every province’s agricultural land in our country using the method of principal and factor analysis. The research, melting into the agricultural industry target in the former evalua...

* E-mail: [email protected] ABSTRACT Starting with the reform of 1999 (named Agenda 2000), the Common Agricultural Policy has two main directions: market policy and sustainable development of rural zones. Since 2003, the environmental aspects were better integrated into the agricultural policy that included new measures or improvements of the existing ones, in order to promote the environment p...