This paper will present the socioeconomic profile and nutritional status of children aged 1-6 years in the rubber smallholdings of Peninsula Malaysia. A total of 323 households were involved in this study. The sociodemographic data were obtained through interviews with heads of households using a set of questionnaires. Anthropometric measurements were taken from 506 children aged 1-6 years from...

US crop insurance is subsidized to encourage producers participate and reduce their risk exposure. However, what has been the impact of these subsidies on demand acres planted? Using a simultaneous system two equations, we quantify both participation acreage response for cotton-producing counties across at national regional levels. We also realized rate return expected subsidy per pound, plus c...

Background: To mitigate climate impacts associated with energy consumption, renewable fuel policies have been established in the USA that encourage production and use of corn ethanol. Current fuel usage of corn ethanol is approximately 15 billion gallons/year (57 billion liters/year), with nearly all of this in the form of E10 (10% blend in gasoline). There is now interest in increasing fuel et...

The complicated process of public forest land allocation involves competing economies of scale. While harvesting cost economies of scale may benefit harvesters, where average costs decline as contiguous harvested acreage increases, larger harvested areas can generate diseconomies in terms of environmental and ecosystem damage. This paper extends existing timber rotation models to more completel...

Supplementary Information Data Notes-Soil Quality USDA-NRCS's soil surveys are conducted at pre-designated spatial units, known as map units (MUs), which represent common management requirements towards various land uses (Soil Data Viewer 6.0 User Guide, 2011 pp. 11). Although MUs are the finest spatial resolution in the soil surveys, they are composed of multiple map unit components that are h...