Water resources play a vital role in human life and agriculture irrigation, especially for agriculture-dominant developing countries and regions. Improving agricultural water use efficiency has consequently become a key strategic choice. This study, based on Zhangye City’s economic characteristics and data, applies a static Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model with a constant elasticity o...

Nigeria is a dominant economic force in sub-Saharan Africa with a strong economy as well as booming oil and agricultural sectors. However, over-dependence on the production and export of oil as well as food imports has rendered the economy vulnerable to global price fluctuations. The increasing spate of fluctuations in the world price of oil affects not only the economic sector but also agricul...

This study evaluated hydrologic and water-quality data collected on a coastal-plain research watershed during a series of hurricanes and tropical storms that hit coastal North Carolina in 1999, including hurricanes Dennis, Floyd, and Irene. During September and October 1999, the research watershed received approximately 555 mm of rainfall associated with hurricanes. This was the wettest such pe...

In the food safety arena, a clear role for government is to adopt sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures to protect human, animal, and plant life or health. Relative to developing countries, developed countries tend to adopt more stringent food safety standards and regulations with a broader scope and to rely increasingly on certification and traceability. The additional costs of compliance ...

This study aims to examine the impact of the China–ASEAN Free Trade Area (CAFTA) on China’s international agricultural trade and its regional agricultural development, using the Global Trade Analysis Project model and the China Agricultural Decision Support System. Our analysis showed that: (i) CAFTA will improve resource allocation efficiencies for both China and ASEAN and will promote bilater...

Large-scale changes in land use are occurring in many tropical regions, with significant impacts on nitrogen and phosphorus biogeochemistry. In this study we examine the relationships between land use, anthropogenic nutrient inputs, and riverine nutrient exports in a major agricultural watershed of the Pacific coast of South America, the Guayas River basin of Ecuador. We present comprehensive n...

The study has analyzed the relationship between high-tech export, agriculture and economic growth, in context of export-led growth hypothesis, by using panel data analysis. In this paper, 20 exporter countries were selected. These are Belgium, Canada, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Singapore, Switzerland, Thail...

from the perspective of new growth models and new international trade theories, both exports and imports play an important role in a dynamic economy. economically, we cannot merely emphasize on a positive trade balance and we ignore the benefits of imports, and also we cannot advise negative trade balance. but the main concern of policy makers about international trade should be making stabilit...

The food enterprise risk warning problem is an important issue both in the theoretical and practical aspects. For this reason, a novel risk warning technology is proposed to food enterprises based on data mining and information fusion. Experimental results suggest that this technology is feasible, correct and valid. Experimental results and trend analysis has many practical significance for ass...

While teaching a course on Crop Biotechnology at Huazhong Agricultural University (Wuhan, Hubei Province, China) this past October, I was asked by one ofmy students if it is true that American farmers grow genetically modified crops (GMOs) only for export, and that GMO‐foods are not sold in the USA. The student implied that Americans thought that such crops were “good enough” for developing cou...