The paper described the movements of agricultural growth and FDI to agriculture, and determined the causality between the two variables. Agricultural growth was represented by real agricultural GDP growth rate and FDI represented by a ratio of inward FDIs to agriculture as a ratio of agriculture value added. Between 1966 and 2008, growth showed significant movements across the zero line. Over t...

This paper estimates the role of agronomic inputs in cereal yield improvements and the consequences for countries' processes of structural change. The results suggest a clear role for fertilizer, modern seeds and water in boosting yields. We then test for respective empirical links between agricultural yields and economic growth, labor share in agriculture and non-agricultural value added per w...

The global economy in recent decades has experienced frequent shocks. Many regions must improve their competitiveness and value-added to deal with this. One of them is the Middle East North Africa (MENA), where a rise agricultural (AVA) can produce more jobs than other sectors. It necessary consider increasing AVA MENA region. Hence, aim this study identifying determinant factors We employed 13...

Currently, the ever-increasing post-consumer polypropylene (PP) plastics and agricultural forestry wastes that are relatively difficult to be degraded have led serious resource waste environmental pollution. To achieve rational utilization of resources meanwhile reduce potential influences on ecological environment, in this study, high-added-value biomass-derived composites were produced by che...

exchange rate volatility is one of the effective and ambiguous factors in agricultural product export. considering the importance of agricultural trade to avoid single-product economy, the main aim of this study was to investigate the impact of exchange rate volatility on the raisin export of iran during the years1959-2011. for this purpose, exchange rate volatility index was estimated using mo...

Modern agriculture features industrialization, marketized industrial structure, intensive production pattern and high digitization; farm produce logistics are characterized by wide range, large quantity, relative independence, consumable as well as value-added processing. In this study, in view of the features of modern agriculture and farm produce logistics, a SCOR model (Supply-Chain Operatio...

Agriculture accounts for a very high proportion of total employment in the LDCs. In extreme cases more than 90 per cent of employment is accounted for by the agricultural sector, the ratio being generally very high for the LDCs in SSA. Together with the very low value added per worker in agriculture, this strongly indicates that a high proportion of the individuals counted as being employed in ...