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Fish and Fishery Products Trade by India: Trends, Competitiveness and Comparative Advantage
This study analyzes the trends and determines the comparative advantage and competitiveness of India’s fish and fishery products trade in the world market and of India’s exports to 10 major destinations over the period of 2000–2021. We use the revealed symmetric comparative...Volume 19 Issue No. 2 (December 2022) -
How to Manage a World Food Crisis: A Viewpoint
As this is written in mid-September 2022, the world is facing a potential food crisis worse than any since World War II. With a devastating war in Ukraine launched by Russia in late February 2022, a historic drought and heat wave in China, and an uneven monsoon in South Asia, food supplies from...Volume 19 Issue No. 2 (December 2022) -
Productivity and Competitiveness of Garlic Production in Pasuquin, Ilocos Norte, Philippines
A total of 124 garlic farmers were selected and interviewed to evaluate the productivity and competitiveness of garlic farming in Pasuquin, Ilocos Norte, Philippines. The Technical efficiency (TE) was estimated using a stochastic frontier analysis or SFA based on the Cobb-Douglas production...Volume 18 Issue No. 1 (June 2021) -
Integrating Indigenous with Scientific Knowledge for the Development of Sustainable Agriculture: Studies in Shaanxi Province
Smallholder farmers are the main stakeholders in agricultural development in China. Their agricultural knowledge (indigenous knowledge) influences their decisions and behaviors both directly and indirectly. However, the importance of smallholder-farmers’ indigenous knowledge is often ignored...Volume 15 Issue No. 2 (December 2018) -
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) -
Cereal Price Transmission in Several Large Asian Countries during the Global Food Crisis
World cereal prices have been increasing substantially since 2003. Until 2008, the Asian countries examined in this paper (Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam) had generally been able to contain domestic price increases by using trade policies and taking...Volume 6 Issue No. 1 (June 2009) -
Non-Tariff Measures Faced by Philippine Agricultural Exports in East Asia
Many consider non-tariff measures (NTMs) as another protectionist stratagem to prevent exports, especially of agriculture, from developing countries. Philippine exporters seem to be taking things in stride, however. The estimated cost of less than 3% of sales borne by a Philippine food exporter due...Volume 3 Issue No. 1&2 (December 2006) -
Pig Production in Cambodia, Laos, Philippines, and Vietnam: A Review
In the last two decades, Asia has become the world's fastest economically growing area. Countries in Southeast Asia are growing at an increasing rate. For instance, the average annual income is increasing from 4% to 8%, population from 2% to 3%, urbanization from 4% to 6%, and meat consumption...Volume 3 Issue No. 1&2 (December 2006) -
The Ecological and Economic Aspects of the Multifunctional Role of Agroecosystems
Current perceptions about agriculture-based systems are rooted in an assessment of their negative and positive externalities, as well as their tremendous influence in the cultural and religious values of communities. Among the emerging concerns is how to integrate this view of the multi-faceted...Volume 3 Issue No. 1&2 (December 2006) -
Averting Hunger and Food Insecurity in Asia
The recent years have seen a resurgence of economic growth in Asia. The region's growth of roughly 5% achieved in 2003 came close to the level achieved prior to the East Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s. Remarkably, too, despite this crisis that led most countries in East Asia to either...Volume 1 Issue No. 1 (June 2004)
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