Author: J. Patrick MaddenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Economies of Size in Farming
Author: J. Patrick MaddenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
The Development of American Agriculture
Author: Willard W. CochranePublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452900537
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Agricultural Production Economics
Author: David L. DebertinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural productivity
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Economies of Scale of Farming in the Southern San Joaquin Valley, California
Author: J. Karl LeePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Farm management
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The Transformation of U. S. Livestock Agriculture: Scale, Efficiency, and Risks
Author: James MacDonaldPublisher:
ISBN: 9781477616864
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
U.S. livestock production has shifted to much larger and more specialized farms, and the various stages of input provision, farm production, and processing are now much more tightly coordinated through formal contracts and shared ownership of assets. Important financial advantages have driven these structural changes, which in turn have boosted productivity growth in the livestock sector. But structural changes can also generate environmental and health risks for society, as industrialization concentrates animals and animal wastes in localized areas. This report relies on farm-level data to detail the nature, causes, and effects of structural changes in livestock production.
Farming Systems and Poverty
Author: John A. DixonPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251046272
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
A joint FAO and World Bank study which shows how the farming systems approach can be used to identify priorities for the reduction of hunger and poverty in the main farming systems of the six major developing regions of the world.
Theory and Practice in Plantation Agriculture
Author: Mary TiffenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
SMALL-SCALE FAMILY FARMING IN THE NEAR EAST AND NORTH AFRICA REGION
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9251095027
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
This report provides an overview of a study conducted in the NENA region in 2015-2016 in partnership with FAO, CIRAD, CIHEAM-IAMM and six national teams, each of which prepared a national report. In the six countries under review in the NENA region (Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Mauritania, Sudan and Tunisia), agriculture is carried out primarily by small-scale family farmers, the majority of whom run the risk of falling into the poverty trap, largely due to the continuous fragmentation of inherited landholdings. As such, the development of small-scale family farming can no longer be based solely on intensifying agriculture, as the farmers are not able to produce sufficient marketable surplus due to the limited size of their landholdings. An approach based strictly on agricultural activity is also insufficient (as small-scale family farms have already diversified their livelihoods with off-farm activities). In fact, developing small-scale farming cannot be achieved by focusing strictly on t he dimension of production.
The Economics of Sustainable Food
Author: Nicoletta BatiniPublisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1642831611
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The Economics of Sustainable Food details the true cost of food for people and the planet. It illustrates how to transform our broken system, alleviating its severe financial and human burden. The key is smart macroeconomic policy that moves us toward methods that protect the environment like regenerative land and sea farming, low-impact urban farming, and alternative protein farming, and toward healthy diets. The book's multidisciplinary team of authors lay out detailed fiscal and trade policies, as well as structural reforms, to achieve those goals. Chapters discuss strategies to make food production sustainable, nutritious, and fair, ranging from taxes and spending to education, labor market, health care, and pension reforms, alongside regulation in cases where market incentives are unlikely to work or to work fast enough. The authors carefully consider the different needs of more and less advanced economies, balancing economic development and sustainability goals. Case studies showcase successful strategies from around the world, such as taxing foods with a high carbon footprint, financing ecosystems mapping and conservation to meet scientific targets for healthy biomes permanency, subsidizing sustainable land and sea farming, reforming health systems to move away from sick care to preventive, nutrition-based care, and providing schools with matching funds to purchase local organic produce.--Amazon.
Size, Structure, And The Changing Face Of American Agriculture
Author: Arne HallamPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1000239640
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Presents the latest findings on past changes in structure, the factors that lead to structural change, its effect on societal welfare and what will happen to the structure of agriculture in the years ahead. The book provides insights on issues such as the family farm, the industrialization of agriculture and the impact of agricultural technology on the environment.