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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) -
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) -
PAFERN: Advancing Philippine Agroforestry Education and Research via Networking
Agroforestry education in the Philippines is already 30 years old. While there was interest among the state colleges and universities to offer various agroforestry education programs in the Philippines, these institutions were faced with a number of issues, development needs, and challenges that...Volume 8 Issue No. 1 (June 2011) -
The Role of Agriculture in Recovery Following Natural Disasters: A Focus on Post-Tsunami Recovery in Aceh, Indonesia
Coastal communities are especially vulnerable to the impacts of a range of natural disasters. The reported frequency of natural disasters has risen dramatically in the past 100 years, with coastal zones particularly exposed to tsunamis, cyclones, and flooding. Managing the change in coastal dynamics...Volume 8 Issue No. 1 (June 2011) -
International Best Practice in Food Policy: Reflections on Food Policy Analysis
It has been more than 25 years since Food Policy Analysis (Timmer et al. 1983) was published, and more than 30 years since the initial outline for the book was circulated among the authors. It is fair to say that the volume has been very influential in the way food policy issues have been looked at...Volume 7 Issue No. 1 (June 2010) -
Risk Management Strategies for Drought-Prone Rice Cultivation: A Case Study of Tamil Nadu, India
This study aimed to understand the issues associated with rainfed rice production in dry and semidry areas in Tamil Nadu, India. Farmers face risks such as input, output, market-price, and income, as these areas are prone to rainfall shortage. Secondary data about Tamil Nadu and various waterlimited...Volume 6 Issue No. 2 (December 2009) -
Tackling Household Food Insecurity: The Experience of Vietnam
This paper is a systematic review of the facts and figures related to the issues of food security in Vietnam. Based on a comprehensive definition of food security as "access by all people at all times to enough, nutritionally adequate, and safe food for an active and health life" (Kennedy...Volume 5 Issue No. 2 (December 2008) -
Managing Microfinance Risks: Some Observations and Suggestions
Risk is an integral part of financial intermediation. Hence, risk management must be at the heart of finance. However, it is disturbing to note that systematic risk management is still not as widespread as it should be in the microfinance industry. Except for a few flagship microfinance institutions...Volume 4 Issue No. 2 (December 2007) -
Analysis of the Philippine Chicken Industry: Commercial versus Backyard Sectors
The chicken industry in the Philippines has diverse components. The commercial sector is characterized by large-scale, industrialized production systems of broilers and layers of exotic hybrids. On the other hand, the backyard sector is made up of many smallholders who keep a few native or crossbred...Volume 4 Issue No. 1 (June 2007) -
Enforcing TRIPS in Asia: The Implications for Agricultural Trade and Development, and an Agenda for Effective Compliance
In accordance with its mandate to ensure the production and trade of better and competitively priced goods and services around the world, the World Trade Organization has to enforce several multilateral agreements, one of which is that on the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights...Volume 4 Issue No. 1 (June 2007)
