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Soil Conservation Decisions and Upland Corn Productivity: A Philippine Case Study
This paper empirically investigates whether farmers who adopt soil conservation measures derive productivity gains. A twelve-year (1994-2006) panel data in Bukidnon, Philippines was used to quantify the indirect relationship between soil conservation technology adoption and upland corn productivity...Volume 6 Issue No. 2 (December 2009) -
Technical Efficiency of Land Tenure Contracts in West Java Province, Indonesia
Obtaining land tenure contracts for rice farms is a major problem faced by farmer tenants in the province of West Java. This study aimed to analyze the type of land tenure contracts in this region and the levels of technical efficiency of each contract system. Data were collected through a survey...Volume 6 Issue No. 2 (December 2009) -
Technical Efficiency of Rice-Producing Households in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam
Technical Effi ciency (TE) is an estimation of the ability of a household to produce the maximum output with the given inputs. It is usually estimated by using the data envelopment analysis (DEA) and stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). Data collected from 261 rice-farming households in the Mekong...Volume 6 Issue No. 2 (December 2009) -
Technological and Institutional Changes in the Indonesian Rice Sector: From Intensification to Sustainable Revitalization
Agricultural development in Indonesia has been changing dynamically since the country's independence. This paper reviews the rice sector as part of agricultural development in Indonesia. It is remarkable that the agricultural sector was ignored when the oil boom benefited Indonesian economy. As...Volume 6 Issue No. 2 (December 2009) -
The Transformation of Food Retail in the Philippines
From a small base by the end of the 1990s, modern retail (the chains selling at least some food) in the Philippines grew very rapidly in the 2000s, at thrice the rate of the country's GDP growth. Reaching 13 billion USD of overall sales by 2010, 5.25 billion USD of this amount came from food...Volume 6 Issue No. 2 (December 2009) -
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) -
Price Dynamics and Cointegration in the Major Markets of Aquaculture Species in the Philippines
This study explores the interdependencies of aquaculture markets in the Philippines by establishing the price cointegration between the wholesale and retail prices of three major species commonly farmed in the country, i.e., milkfish, tilapia, and shrimp. The co-movements of wholesale prices between...Volume 6 Issue No. 1 (June 2009) -
Social Capital and the Local Food Movement in Japan: The Case of the Chiba Prefecture
This study investigates the relationship between social capital and local food movements in rural Japan, with the latter factor markedly leaning towards the goal, "Local Production for Local Consumption" (LPLC). Promoted by the central and local governments in Japan since the 1990s, LPLC...Volume 6 Issue No. 1 (June 2009) -
Spatial Integration of Rice Markets in Vietnam
The study analyzes the extent, pattern, and degree of the spatial integration of rice markets in Vietnam, as well as the dynamic relationship of the rice export prices of Vietnam and Thailand. The extent of market integration is determined by identifying locations that are linked by trade and whose...Volume 6 Issue No. 1 (June 2009) -
The "Tipping Point" in Indian Agriculture: Understanding the Withdrawal of the Indian Rural Youth
Recent trends suggest that India might very well be at the "tipping point" of the transition in its agriculture-dependent population. A large proportion of the youth in the countryside are trying to severe their links from farming. The paper attempts to identify the drivers of this process of...Volume 6 Issue No. 1 (June 2009)
