Differential property tax policy for farmland is often set under conditions of uncertainty and limited information regarding landowners’ objective functions. This study examines optimal differential tax policy for a parcel of agricultural land facing uncertain development, identifying instances in which common farmland taxation policies may be non-optimal. Optimal tax rates are characterized gi...

Science and technology – and particularly biotechnology – is increasingly central to development agendas in Africa and elsewhere. Implicit within the centrality of science and technology lie a set of policy issues regarding how best to shape contextually appropriate, innovative and sustainable science and technological products in, with and for developing countries. The work of the Consultative...

— Lives and livelihoods in the Rural South are becoming increasingly divorced from farming and, therefore, from the land. Patterns and associations of wealth and poverty have become more diffuse and diverse as non-farm opportunities have expanded and heightened levels of mobility have led to the delocalization of livelihoods. This, in turn, has had ramifications for the production and reproduct...

Virtual business communities (VBC) are social aggregations, based on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) platforms, created to sustain activities of agents of a specific industry or sector that are economically and socially linked. To study the main challenges in creating a VBC to support a not-well-structured agricultural cluster, we developed and tested an ICT platform and analyzed...

V Girijashankar1*, KK Sharma2, P Balakrishna and N Seetharama 1. Centre for Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU), Kukatpally, Hyderabad 500 072, Andhra Pradesh, India 2. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru 502 324, Andhra Pradesh, India 3. National Research Centre for Sorghum (NRCS), Rajendranagar, Hyderabad 500 030, ...

Global agriculture is confronted by a number of substantial challenges, with some them being existential [...]