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Agriculture, Markets, and Poverty: A Comparative Analysis of Lao PDR and Cambodia
Lao PDR and Cambodia have been transitioning to a market-oriented policy regime. Both are agrarian economies with agriculture contributing about one-third of the gross domestic product (GDP). This study assessed their prospects of achieving the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG 1, extreme...Volume 9 Issue No. 1 (June 2012) -
Economic Transformation of Agriculture in Asia: Past Performance and Future Prospects
As an economy develops, agriculture faces distinctly different problems: food insecurity, sectoral income inequality, and food trade deficits associated with declining comparative advantage. Fear of widespread famine was Asia's major agricultural problem in the 1960s, which was subsequently...Volume 9 Issue No. 1 (June 2012) -
Food Security in Asia and the Pacific: The Role of Smallholders
This paper discusses the challenges and opportunities faced by small farmers in Asia and the Pacific region in raising agricultural productivity and in diversifying into high-value commodities. About 87 percent of the world's 500 million small farms (less than 2 hectares) are in this region...Volume 9 Issue No. 1 (June 2012) -
Food Security: Challenges and Opportunities for Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Population growth, accelerated urbanization, and higher incomes are expected to increase food demand by about 70 percent by 2050—involving 1 billion extra tons of cereals and 200 million extra tons of meat (FAO 2009a). The region of Eastern Europe and Central Asia includes major food producing...Volume 9 Issue No. 1 (June 2012) -
Structural Transformation, the Changing Role of Rice, and Food Security in Asia: Small Farmers and Modern Supply Chains
Food security is not a viable social objective unless it is also a profitable undertaking for input suppliers, farmers, and marketers of output. Consumers must then be able to afford to purchase food, secure in the knowledge that it is safe and nutritious (Reardon and Timmer 2007). Achieving food...Volume 9 Issue No. 1 (June 2012) -
The Dynamics and Potentials of Asian Agro-Food Marketing
This paper attempts to look at the dynamics and perhaps the complexities of agro-food marketing in Asia. It is based on my observations and readings on the topic. As such, it is not strictly a scientific paper. It ends with my impressions on the potentials of agro-food marketing and some possible...Volume 9 Issue No. 1 (June 2012) -
Away-from-Home Meat Consumption in China
This paper investigates significant forces that affect away-from-home (AFH) meat consumption in China. Multivariate Tobit models were used to analyze a set of survey data from 340 households in Jiangsu, Shandong, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, and Sichuan Provinces in 2005. AFH meat consumption accounts...Volume 8 Issue No. 2 (December 2011) -
Hypothesizing ICT4D in Philippine Agriculture: Deriving from Trends, Setting Directions
The yield gap in rice production can be narrowed by improving farmers' access to information. In recent years, the Philippines has witnessed a profusion of information and communication technology (ICT) interventions expected to increase Filipino famers' access to rice farming information, led by...Volume 8 Issue No. 2 (December 2011) -
Progress of Mongolian Microfinance: A Case Study of Khan Bank and XacBank
This paper examines the activities of Mongolian financial intermediation and the factors influencing the progress of Mongolian microfinance. These were evaluated using data from household surveys in selected areas, financial statements of Khan Bank and XacBank, and information obtained from...Volume 8 Issue No. 2 (December 2011) -
Risk Perceptions, Attitudes, and Influential Factors of Rainfed Lowland Rice Farmers in Ilocos Norte, Philippines
This study analyzes the risk perceptions and risk attitudes of farmers practicing different rice-based cropping patterns in the rainfed lowland ecosystems of Ilocos Norte, Philippines. The Likert scale and Kruskal-Wallis test were employed to assess the farmers' risk perceptions while the...Volume 8 Issue No. 2 (December 2011)
