Aquaculture is the fastest-growing segment of food production and is expected to supply a growing portion of animal protein for consumption by humans. Because industrial aquaculture developed only recently compared to industrial agriculture, its development occurred within the context of a growing environmental awareness and acknowledgment of environmental issues associated with industrial farm...

Recent industrialization and globalizations are changing the Indian occupational morbidity drastically. Traditionally labor-oriented markets are on change towards more automation and mechanization, at the same time general awareness about occupational safety, occupational and environmental hazards were not spread in the society. This review will provide an overview of existing evidence from com...

An oft-repeated refrain in the development literature has been the “neglect” of the agricultural sector vis-à-vis the industrial sector in the development process of the less developed economies. Because infrastructure is crucially linked to both agricultural and industrial development, poor infrastructure development may make it appear as if slow agricultural growth has caused slow industrial ...

Kenya is an exciting case for those who suspect that agriculture has powerful linkages with the rest of the economy. Over the period 1965-87 Kenya's agricultural production consistently surpassed the average for Sub-Saharan Africa. The same was true of its manufacturing and services (see World Bank 1989, table 7.1). One possible explanation for this performance is that agricultural growth stimu...

Using the variation in the shares of serfs across provinces of the Russian empire in the 19 century and the difference in timing of emancipation of different types of serfs, we estimate the effect of serfdom on agricultural productivity, peasants’ living standards, and industrial development using difference-in-differences estimator with region-specific trends. In contrast to the 19 century US,...

With rapid world growth and changing consumer demands and attitudes, sustained economic and social development will depend upon a secure supply of raw-material inputs for manufacturing needs. Continued depletion of limited global natural resources supports the concept of supplying industrial production and energy needs through the use of renewable, or biobased, resources. The United States has ...

It is argued that from the viewpoint of efficiency, agriculture should not be taxed relative to other sectors, and neither should it be favored. Nevertheless, developing countries have traditionally taxed the agricultural sector while developed countries have protected it, and both have incurred efficiency losses. Based on Schiff and Valdes (1992), it was shown that the taxation of agriculture ...

Recent thinking about the Industrial Revolution has been dominated by the idea that the driving force in events in Britain after 1760 was an unprecedented set of technological advances, spread across a wide range of sectors in the economy. Cotton textiles, iron and steel production, mechanical power sources, shipping, railways and agriculture all saw significant advances and together these more...

(1) IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria, (2) INRA, Paris, France, (3) CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security, (4) Gund Institute, University of Vermont, Burlington, USA, (5) University of Lviv, Lviv, Ukraine, (6) CSIRO, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, St Lucia, Australia, (7) Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of A...

Cooperative Research Centre for Plant Science, GPO Box 475, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia (M.K.U.); Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Division of Plant Industry, GPO Box 1600, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia (M.K.U., W.J.P., E.S.D.); United States Department of Agriculture Biosciences Research Laboratory, P.O. Box 5874,...