The first scheduled annual conference of the Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa was held in October 1962. Today is thus truly a special occasion as we celebrate the 40th annual conference an important milestone for our discipline. Reaching the age of 40 is a time to celebrate, but perhaps also a time to reflect on past achievements and to debate how one should approach future ch...

A new interdisciplinary program in Computer Science and Agriculture at the University of Washington is breaking down fences between diverse computational, scientific, and agricultural fields to cultivate research on disruptive Barnyard Computing technologies that will radically grow the impacts of emerging Pig Data applications. In this paper we plot the UW CSA view of Barnyard Computing and Pi...

OBJECTIVE To develop regional tobacco control research agendas for developing countries through a consultative process. METHODS Research for International Tobacco Control, located at the International Development Research Centre in Ottawa, Canada, convened three regional meetings for Latin America and the Caribbean, South and Southeast Asia, and Eastern, Central and Southern Africa. Participa...

Weekly composite rainfall samples were collected in three paired urban and agricultural regions of the Midwestern United States and along the Mississippi River during April-September 1995. The paired sampling sites were located in Mississippi, Iowa, and Minnesota. A background site, removed from dense urban and agriculture areas, was located near Lake Superior in Michigan. Herbicides were the p...

The development of green food production, establishment and management of collecting and sorting documentary materials has been put on the agenda. Vigorously strengthen the production bases of green food, the producers of green food, wholesale markets of green food, distribution entities of green food, sales units of green food and supervision and management, establishing the certificate record...

For better or worse, digital technologies are reshaping everything, from customer behaviors and expectations to organizational manufacturing systems, business models, markets, ultimately society. To understand this overarching transformation, paper extends the previous literature which has focused mostly on level by developing a multi-level research agenda for transformation (DT). In regard, we...