Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Ag Decision Maker
Author: Agricultural Decision Making
Author: Peggy F. BarlettPublisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 1483268411
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Agricultural Decision Making: Anthropological Contributions to Rural Development presents the impact of farmers' choices in agricultural production. This book discusses how individual decisions determine household profits and well-being, capital requirements, land use, and the adoption of technology. Organized into three parts encompassing 14 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the theoretical and methodological questions concerning the use of formal models in evaluating the alternatives open to farmers. This text then explores the patterns of agricultural choices within one rural community. Other chapters consider the implications of decision-making research for agricultural development policy and explore the decision-making context of aid programs. This book discusses as well the impacts of nonagricultural alternatives on agricultural decisions. The final chapter deals with various policy and development programs for agricultural development. This book is a valuable resource for economic anthropologists, historians, economists, agricultural economists, rural sociologists, psychologists, farmers, and research workers.
A Guide to Information and Policy Analisis for Agricultural Decision Making in Latin America and the Caribbean
Author: Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Multiple Criteria Analysis for Agricultural Decisions, Second Edition
Author: C. RomeroPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0444503439
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part one: Multiple criteria in agricultural decisions -- Chapter 1. Main features of the multiple criteria decision-making paradigm -- Criticism of the traditional paradigm for decision-making -- Economic versus technological decisions -- Multiple objectives and goals in agricultural economics -- Historical origins of the MCDM paradigm -- Plan of the book -- Suggestions for further reading -- Chapter 2. Some basic concepts -- Attributes, objectives and goals -- Distinction between goals and constraints -- Pareto optimality -- Trade-offs between decision-making criteria -- A first approximation of the main MCDM approaches -- Suggestions for further reading -- Part two: Multiple criteria decision-making techniques -- Chapter 3. Goal programming -- Introductory example for handling multiple criteria in a farm planning model -- The role of deviational variables in goal programming -- Lexicographic goal programming -- Sensitivity analysis ...
Farm Business Management
Author: Emery N. CastlePublisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Agricultural Decision Making
Author: Peggy F. BarlettCoping with Risk in Agriculture, 3rd Edition
Author: J Brian HardakerPublisher: CABI
ISBN: 1780645740
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Risk and uncertainty are inescapable factors in agriculture which require careful management. Farmers face production risks from the weather, crop and livestock performance, and pests and diseases, as well as institutional, personal and business risks. This revised third edition of the popular textbook includes updated chapters on theory and methods and contains a new chapter discussing the state-contingent approach to the analysis of production and the use of copulas to better model stochastic dependency. Aiming to introduce agricultural decision making, probability and risk preference, this book is an indispensable guide for students and researchers of agriculture and agribusiness management.
American Farm Policy
Author: Don PaarlbergPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture and state
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Agricultural Decision Analysis
Author: Jock R. AndersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bayesian statistical decision theory
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
A Case Study of Wood County Agricultural Decision Making
Author: Stacy Ellen SouthwickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description