A computable general equilibrium (CGE) approach is used to assess the macroeconomic effects of global and regional catastrophic losses of pollination ecosystem services. Results show economic risks to both direct crop sectors and indirect non-crop sectors in the economy, with a substantial amount of regional heterogeneity. In addition, there exists potential for winners, those regions with a co...

Trends in the evolution and development of agricultural field machinery are often shaped by the technological development in other sectors of the world’s economy such as defense and transportation. For example, without defense-related concerns over locating troop movements or guiding ordinates, it is doubtful that the civilian sector alone would have provided enough justification for space-base...

— Based on an extended Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for 2002–03, this study shows how sectoral growth in India affects inequality. A breakdown of the wage account into three educational levels and 10 sectors of employment improves the link between sectoral expansion and household income in the SAM. The results show that only agricultural growth reduces inequality, while growth in heavy manufa...

There is a growing debate on whether agricultural land in urban fringe should be maintained or converted to other uses. While ‘pro-ruralists’ believe agricultural land conversion can threaten food security and cause rural-urban migration, ‘pro-urbanists’ find it a necessary change for transition from a primitive agricultural-based community to an advanced industrialbased society which has the c...

agriculture has always been considerd as one of the important sectors in domestic and international economy .based on the central bank statistics; agriculture’s share in the iranian gdp at the constant price of the year 1998 was 13 percent of the gdp in the year 2007. therefore, studies on the role of agriculture in an economy and its interactions with other economic sectors should be considere...

Modeling efforts focused on future greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from energy and other sectors in California have shown varying capacities to meet the emissions reduction targets established by the state. These efforts have not included potential reductions from changes in ecosystem management, restoration, and conservation. We examine the scale of contributions from selected activities in nat...

This study presents a genetic algorithm (GA) with variable parameters to forecast electricity demand in agricultural, low energy consuming and energy intensive sectors using stochastic procedures. The economic indicators used in this paper are price, value added, number of customers and consumption in the last periods for agricultural and low energy consuming sectors and price, value added, num...

Notwithstanding its admission to the EU, agricultural restructuring and sustainable rural development remain as major transition challenges confronting Poland. Achieving these joint goals will necessitate major labour flows from farming into other occupations and sectors. This paper employs a multinomial logit model on Labour Force Survey data to analyse mobility in the agricultural labour mark...

This central objective is manifest in the sectoral strategies implemented by the various government ministries. For the Ministry of Agriculture, notably, the goal is to increase the incomes of small farmers. Given the very competitive agricultural sectors of its Thai and Vietnamese neighbors, Cambodia wishes to better showcase the quality of its products and obtain better prices for them.