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The Role of Supply Chains and International Networks in Enhancing the Agricultural Sector's Competitiveness in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV)
The expansion of supermarkets in Asia typifiesthe effects of the increasing liberalization in trade and the inflow of foreign investment. The supermarket revolution thus occupies a focal point in this paper which tracks its phenomenal growth in Asia, and its continuing in roads into CLMV &ndash...Volume 4 Issue No. 1 (June 2007) -
MNEs and the Global Integration of Thailand's Processed Food Exports: A Firm-Level Study
This paper presents the findings of a firm-level case study examining the role of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in processed food exports from Thailand. The discussion covers both FDI (foreign direct investment) and non-FDI channels of MNE involvement in the export of four major items, namely...Volume 3 Issue No. 1&2 (December 2006) -
Spatial Integration of the Rice Market: Empirical Evidence from Mid-west and Far-west Nepal, and the Nepalese-Indian Border
This paper studies the integration of rice markets in the mid-west and far-west districts of Nepal. The data were drawn mainly from the World Food Programme (WFP) database on Nepal. Results indicate that the rice markets of the hinterland are poorly integrated with the regional market of Nepalgunj...Volume 3 Issue No. 1&2 (December 2006) -
Rural Poverty in Southeast Asia: Issues, Policies, and Challenges
Economic growth among Southeast Asian countries during the last 25 years has averaged at five percent per year and has been accompanied by a decline in the relative importance of agriculture in the national output and employment. The response of poverty to this growth and structural transformation...Volume 2 Issue No. 1&2 (December 2005) -
China's Agricultural Research System and Reforms: Challenges and Implications for Developing Countries
The expansion of the real output of major food and agricultural productions in China ranks as one of the nation's great achievements. Publicly funded agricultural research has been key to the impressive performance (Huang et al. 2003). Expenditures grew rapidly from the early 1960s to the middle...Volume 1 Issue No. 1 (June 2004) -
Rural Institutions, Agricultural Development, and Pro-Poor Economic Growth
According to conventional wisdom, the ideal form of pro-poor economic development is through investment in agriculturally-led growth. In the early stages of growth, increased production decreases food prices and shifts out the demand for labor. Inasmuch as poor households disproportionately consume...Volume 1 Issue No. 1 (June 2004) -
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) -
Assessing the Effects of Access to Safe Drinking Water on Children's Nutritional Status in Indonesia
This study analyzed the effects of access to safe drinking water on the nutritional status of children under the age of 59 months in urban and rural areas in Indonesia using the Indonesian Family Life Survey 5. Both piped water and packaged water were considered safe to drink. The descriptive...Volume 18 Issue No. 2 (December 2021) -
The Fishery Potential of Freshwater Gobies in Mandulog River, Northern Mindanao, Philippines
Freshwater gobies, particularly fry and some adult species, have been used as an alternative fishery resource. Mandulog River in Iligan City, northern Mindanao, Philippines, is one of the areas known for goby-fry fishery. This study described the potentials of the goby population in Mandulog River...Volume 11 Issue No. 1 (June 2014) -
Assessment of a Farmer Base Network in Promoting an Integrated Farming System at the Mekong Delta in Vietnam
This study analyzed forces driving the emergence of farmer networks in Vietnam and quantified the benefits of an integrated farming system (IFS) and the role of a farmer network in promoting IFS in the Mekong Delta. This case study applied a combination of literature review, participatory community...Volume 10 Issue No. 2 (December 2013)
