tation of productive new technologies that provide more food, shelter, and industrial materials for an expanding world population. Agricultural output needed to produce an abundant food supply for nations where economies and distribution systems are adequate is currently achieved on approximately six million square miles of cultivated land, the same land use as in 1950, despite a doubling in wo...

Along with greatly shaking up the confidence in producers and distributors, the problems, such as BSE and avian influenza, which are threatening the safety of agricultural products occurring one after another, have suddenly increased our the awareness of “food safety” as consumers. On the other hand, even though Japanese agriculture is facing internal and external problems such as the depressio...

Network industries lie at the heart of economy and society. They provide key infrastructures and technologies, and have deserved indeed special missions of general interest. Therefore, they used to be organized as publicly owned monopolistic entities, thus subject to administrative law and regulation. Nowadays, these industries are undergoing major economic transformations. From one side, they ...

©1999–2004 CHOICES. All rights reserved. Articles may be reproduced or electronically distributed as long as attribution to Choices and the American Agricultural Economics Association is maintained. Choices subscriptions are free and can be obtained through http://www.choicesmagazine.org. The forest sector—forestry and forest industries— plays an important role in the global climate change deba...

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) technology is one of the important technologies to implement the ubiquitous society, and it could increase productivity of agricultural and livestock products, and secure transparency of distribution channels if such a WSN technology were successfully applied to the agricultural sector. Middleware, which can connect WSN hardware, applications, and enterprise system...

The Caribbean region has long been characterised by mono-crop agriculture for export while relying on costly imported goods to meet basic needs, a lingering legacy of plantation economies. Since World War II the trend has become increasingly evident in a regional shift away from domestic production of agricultural foodstuff s, resulting in an agricultural deficit as production decreased and foo...

The goal of this study was to quantify the economic role of dairy farming in New Mexico and to identify its linkages with allied industries in terms of income, value added, and employment impacts. An input-output model was used to estimate the direct, indirect, and induced impacts of the dairy farm industry on the economy of New Mexico. The results showed that in 2005, New Mexico's dairy farm i...

Network industries lie at the heart of economy and society. They provide key infrastructures and technologies, and have deserved indeed special missions of general interest. Therefore, they used to be organized as publicly owned monopolistic entities, thus subject to administrative law and regulation. Nowadays, these industries are undergoing major economic transformations. From one side, they ...

In recent years, environmental concerns about climate change and global warming have encouraged countries to increase investment in renewable energies. As the penetration of power goes up, intermittency system increases. To counterbalance fluctuations, demand-side flexibility is a workable solution. This paper reviews potentials demand sectors, including residential, industrial, commercial, agr...