COVID-19 spread rapidly in 2020 many states including Nebraska. Many businesses, small or big, suffered significant economic losses due to the pandemic as businesses closed remained restricted. Demand and supply chains are destructed a particular extent, which has an impact on workers food chain. This impacted pricing of agricultural produce. Besides, elderly farmers contracted virus some them ...

To promote global food and ecosystem security, several innovative farming systems have been identified that better balance multiple sustainability goals. The most rapidly growing and contentious of these systems is organic agriculture. Whether organic agriculture can continue to expand will likely be determined by whether it is economically competitive with conventional agriculture. Here, we ex...

Bonwoo Koo is a research fellow in the Environment and Production Technology Division of IFPRI. Philip G. Pardey is a professor in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota. At the time of this research, he was a senior research fellow at IFPRI. Brian D. Wright is a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berke...

Agricultural development thinking has gone through several stages of fad and fancy, often without an understanding of previous fallacies. Its current doldrums are unfortunate given the unrivaled importance of agricultural development for poverty reduction in most development countries. After reviewing several policy and program areas, lessons are synthesized, and a forward-looking research fram...

The Disparate Influence of State Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) on Renewable Electricity Generation Capacity Karen Maguire Assistant Professor Department of Economics and Legal Studies Oklahoma State University 327 Business Building, Stillwater, OK 74075 Phone: 405-744-5112 E-mail: [email protected] Abdul Munasib Research Scientist Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics ...

The Kuhn-Tucker model provides a utility theoretic framework for estimating preferences over commodities for which individuals choose not to consume one or more of the goods. This paper provides an application of the Kuhn-Tucker model to the problem of recreation demand and site selection, modeling the demand for fishing in the Wisconsin Great Lakes region. Disciplines Agricultural and Resource...

1 West African Centre for Crop Improvement, College of Agriculture and Consumer Sciences, University of Ghana, P. M. B. LG 30, Legon, Ghana. 2 CSIR-Crops Research Institute, P. O. Box 3785, Kumasi, Ghana. 3 Deparment of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Faculty of the Professions, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, 2350, Australia. 4 CSIR-Savanna Agricultural Research Institute, P. O....

This glossary contains general definitions of over 500 terms related to agricultural production, the environment, and sustainable development. Terms were chosen to increase awareness of major issues for the nonspecialist and were drawn from various social and natural science disciplines, including ecology, biology, epidemiology, chemistry, sociology, economics, anthropology, philosophy, and pub...

Sheila A. Martin is a senior economist in the Research Triangle Institute’s Center for Economics Research. She earned a Ph.D. in Economics from Iowa State University in 1992 and holds an M.A. in International Studies from the University of Kentucky. At the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, she researched industrial and rural development policy issues, including industryand plant-le...