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Book Review | China's Peasant Agriculture and Rural Society: Changing Paradigms of Farming by Jan Douwe van der Ploeg and Jingzhong Ye
This book integrates current research in peasant agriculture with appropriate and relevant cases, and practical relevant examples. The beauty of the book lies in the individual chapters that delve into the density issues of Chinese peasant agriculture in readable and entertaining style. I see this...Volume 13 Issue No. 2 (December 2016) -
Consumer Preference of Table Banana Quality by Income Groups in the Philippines: Hedonic Price Analysis
Income has been found to be a strong determinant of consumers’ demand for agricultural commodity such as banana, and has been strongly correlated with consumer preference. However, literature on consumer preferences vis-à-vis fruit quality as segmented by income group is lacking. This study...Volume 13 Issue No. 2 (December 2016) -
Panca Datu Partnership in Support of Inclusive Business for Coffee Development: The Case of Ngada District, Province of Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia
Coffee development has big potential as coffee is one of the globally traded commodities in the world. Arabica and Robusta are the most popular coffee varieties produced by smallholder farmers in Indonesia, including those in Flores Island, Nusa Tenggara Timur Province. The produce of this island is...Volume 13 Issue No. 2 (December 2016) -
Recent Changes in the Bioeconomics of Lobster and Mud Crab Mariculture in Vietnam
The purpose of this paper is to compare trends in the bioeconomics of tropical spiny lobster and mud crab mariculture in Vietnam between 2010 and 2013 using survey processes and bioeconomic analysis. Results show that tropical spiny lobster and mud crab grow-out mariculture remained strongly...Volume 13 Issue No. 2 (December 2016) -
Seasonal Migration and Moving Out of Poverty in Rural India: Insights from Statistical Analysis
Rural households in many countries have used temporary or seasonal migration as a strategy to cope with natural shocks such as drought, means of employment and income generation during lean season, and to move out of poverty. This paper studies the linkages between migration, employment in economic...Volume 13 Issue No. 2 (December 2016) -
The Enabling Environment for Inclusive Agribusiness in Southeast Asia
Smallholder farmers constitute a sizable subset of the population in the ASEAN region and therefore are important stakeholders to consider in realizing the broader goals of inclusive development and poverty reduction. Linking them to various agriculture-related activities across the value chain...Volume 13 Issue No. 2 (December 2016) -
Yield and Income Effects of Ecologically-based Rodent Management in Mekong River Delta, Vietnam
Regression-based strategies along with propensity score matching (PSM) were used to assess the farm-level economic impact of community action (CA) strategies associated with ecologically based rodent management (EBRM). The paddy yield and real net income of rice farmer beneficiaries of the EBRM...Volume 13 Issue No. 2 (December 2016) -
Agriculture Is Still the Engine of Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence from Uttar Pradesh, India
This paper assesses intersectoral linkages in Uttar Pradesh to identify the lead sector in its economy. It is based on time series data spanning 1980/81 to 2009/10 and used the vector autoregression framework to examine intersectoral linkages. The results suggest that agriculture is the main sector...Volume 13 Issue No. 1 (June 2016) -
Book Review | Genetically Modified Crops and Agricultural Development by Matin Qaim
Farmers have been growing GM crops for 20 years and planted 180 million hectares to GM crops in 2015. Qaim provides a thorough and unbiased review of the accumulated research on the risks, benefits, and policy issues surrounding the use of GM crops in developing countries. The book will be valuable...Volume 13 Issue No. 1 (June 2016) -
Climate-Smart Agriculture: Do Young People Care?
This paper is about the information-seeking and information-sharing behavior on climate-smart agriculture (CSA) of high school students who participated in the Infomediary Campaign in 2014. This seeks to answer five research questions: (1) What are the indicators that searching and sharing of...Volume 13 Issue No. 1 (June 2016)
