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Drought Risk in Cambodia: Assessing Costs and a Potential Solution
The two major natural hazards that threaten Cambodia are flood and drought. Millions of people have been affected by these natural disasters which have put to waste millions of hectares of paddy rice lands on which depend the lifeblood of the rural economy as well as that of the whole country. Given...Volume 11 Issue No. 2 (December 2014) -
Agricultural Price Policy, Output, and Farm Profitability—Examining Linkages during Post-Reform Period in India
The formulation of agricultural price policy is complicated by the multiplicity of functions that price performs. The objectives, thrust, and instruments of agricultural price policy in India have undergone conspicuous shifts during the past 50 years and so has the role and effectiveness of price...Volume 10 Issue No. 1 (June 2013) -
Cultural Risk Communication Framework: The Case of a Riverine Community in Infanta, Quezon, Philippines
Natural hazards pose insurmountable challenges to sustainable human development because they shake the structure of social systems and the built environment. Contemporary studies in the “hard” sciences, commonly known as the scientific-technical or technocratic perspectives, have...Volume 22 Issue No. 1 (June 2025) -
The Microeconomics of Agricultural Development: Risk, Institutions, and Agricultural Policy
Assertions of pervasive inefficiency in the behavior and organization of developing agriculture are found to be based on unsound methodologies. Models apparently based on expected utility theory are theoretically flawed and use highly restrictive assumptions that make them largely irrelevant for...Volume 21 20th Anniversary Issue (October 2024) -
Youth Engagement in Transforming the Food System to Address Malnutrition in the Philippines
Transforming the Philippine food system is essential to achieving AmBisyon Natin 2040 and addressing persistent malnutrition. This paper focuses on youth engagement as a pathway to reform by exploring how to inspire interest in agriculture, improve dietary quality, and integrate nutrition into...Volume 21 20th Anniversary Issue (October 2024) -
Effects of Farm Income Diversification and Labor Out-Migration on Rice Household Productivity in Indonesia
This study analyzed the impact of income diversification on agricultural output in Indonesia. We specifically focused on the effects of the cultivation of multiple crops, household heads’ employment in non-agricultural sectors, and regional differences in paddy rice productivity per area. We...Volume 21 Issue No. 2 (December 2024) -
Book Review | Becoming a Young Farmer–Young People’s Pathways into Farming: Canada, China, India and Indonesia
Based on a multicountry research done in 2016–21, this book provides new insights on the socioeconomic mechanisms underlying the phenomenon of aging agriculture both in developed and developing economies. This work contributes significantly as a good reading material for tertiary education...Volume 21 Issue No. 1 (June 2024) -
Digitalization in Indonesia’s Agrifood Sector in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic
COVID-19 has disrupted Indonesia’s agricultural food supply chain, leading to the massive mintage and exertion of digitalization in the food and agriculture (agrifood) sector. This study systematically mapped the landscape of agrifood digital technology studies and startups in Indonesia and...Volume 21 Issue No. 1 (June 2024) -
Drivers of Successful Adoption of Eco-innovation: Case Studies of Agricultural Cooperatives in Vietnam
Research shows that external factors dominate the key determinants of eco-innovation (EI) adoption in organizations in the agriculture sector. Studies are needed to understand the link between internal organizational capabilities and EI adoption. Given the heterogeneity in the types of agricultural...Volume 21 Issue No. 1 (June 2024) -
Commentary: Institutionalizing Agricultural Ethics
When something is institutionalized, it is established as a convention or norm of an organization or culture. Most professional disciplines have institutionalized and published their professional ethical expectations. Universities routinely include ethical study in the curriculum for medicine, law...Volume 20 Issue No. 2 (December 2023)