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  • An Adaptation of the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) for Measuring Food Insecurity among Women in Socially-Backward Communities

    Federica Onori, Preeti Dhillon, Konsam Dinachandra, Abdul Jaleel, Abhishek Saraswat, Reshmi R.S., Sayeed Unisa, and Vani Sethi
    Recent reviews on the use of experience-based food insecurity scales in the Indian context suggested the addition of "how often" related items to food insecurity modules to avoid overestimation of food insecurity, especially in underprivileged communities. Following this recommendation, we...
    Volume 18 Issue No. 1 (June 2021)

  • The Microeconomics of Agricultural Development: Risk, Institutions, and Agricultural Policy

    James A. Roumasset
    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)

  • Motivation toward Rice Farming in Margokaton Village, Sleman District, Yogyakarta Province, Indonesia

    Rosalia Natalia Seleky, Wataru Ozawa, and Aofei Chen
    Sustaining rice farming in rural Indonesia is increasingly difficult as younger generations move away from agriculture. This study examined the motivations of 82 rice farmers in Margokaton Village, Yogyakarta, using Alderfer’s Existence-Relatedness-Growth (ERG) theory and Spearman’s rank...
    Volume 21 Issue No. 1 (June 2024)

  • Climate-Smart Agriculture: Do Young People Care?

    Jaime A. Manalo IV, Fredierick M. Saludez, Myriam G. Layaoen, Argie M. Pagdanganan, Jayson C. Berto, Christina A. Frediles, Katherine P. Balmeo, and Jennifer D. Villaflor
    This paper is about the information-seeking and information-sharing behavior on climate-smart agriculture (CSA) of high school students who participated in the Infomediary Campaign in 2014. This seeks to answer five research questions: (1) What are the indicators that searching and sharing of...
    Volume 13 Issue No. 1 (June 2016)

  • Wither the Economics of Agricultural Development?

    James A. Roumasset
    In spite of a healthy demand for a renaissance in economic policy for agricultural development, the academic supply response is found wanting. The infusion of public economics into the economics of agricultural development, which thrived during the 1970s and 1980s, has stagnated due to the lack of...
    Volume 7 Issue No. 1 (June 2010)

  • Determinants of Demand for Fertilizer: A Case for India

    Kalyan Chakraborty
    In India, agriculture contributes 14 percent to GDP and provides subsistence to two-thirds of the population. One of the top priorities of the Indian government is to provide food security to more than 1.25 billion people. Hence, increasing farm productivity is viewed as a primary goal for the...
    Volume 13 Issue No. 1 (June 2016)

  • Transaction Costs of Exchange in Agriculture: A Survey

    Agham C. Cuevas
    The concept of transaction cost has been around for more than 75 years. It has been used to explain every economic phenomenon that does not fit with standard neoclassical predictions. It has been applied to so many fields, its definition varying with every application. This paper surveys the...
    Volume 11 Issue No. 1 (June 2014)

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