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Youth Engagement in Transforming the Food System to Address Malnutrition in the Philippines
Unless the Philippine food system is made more resilient, the aspirations of AmBisyon Natin 2040 will remain elusive, hindering the country’s ability to achieve inclusive growth, eradicate poverty, and ensure the well-being of all Filipinos. Focused on the youth, this paper brings together...Volume 21 20th Anniversary Issue (October 2024) -
Measuring the Efficiency of Rice Production in Myanmar Using Data Envelopment Analysis
Rice production in Myanmar is constrained by biophysical and socioeconomic factors. Nonetheless, efficient farm practices can enhance productivity, farmers’ profit, and the price and quality of marketed rice. This study analyzed the profitability and efficiency of rice production in the...Volume 16 Issue No. 2 (December 2019) -
Price and Profitability Analysis of Major Pulses in India
The paper examines the reasons for the low growth in pulses production at the all India level in terms of profitability of the farm business and the workings of the price policy. More precisely, it looks into the effectiveness of (price) policy instruments in helping the farmers to get sufficient...Volume 14 Issue No. 2 (December 2017) -
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) -
Supply Response and Investment in Agriculture in Andhra Pradesh
The study explored the response of aggregate farm output, input use, and farm investment decisions to output and input prices, wages, technological change, public investments, and climatic factors using district-level panel data of over 39 years from Andhra Pradesh. It confirms the low, short-run...Volume 9 Issue No. 2 (December 2012) -
Market Integration and Price Causality in the Myanmar Rice Market
In Myanmar, rice is an invaluable commodity both as a staple food and a source of high foreign exchange earnings through export. The country's agricultural economy has been transitioning from a planned economy to a market system since the late 1980s; however, the government has yet to engage in...Volume 7 Issue No. 2 (December 2010) -
Climate Change and Asian Agriculture
Asian and global agriculture will be under significant pressure to meet the demands of rising populations, using finite and often degraded soil and water resources that are predicted to be further stressed by the impacts of climate change. In addition, agriculture and land use change are prominent...Volume 7 Issue No. 1 (June 2010) -
Exploratory Study on Selected Philippine Agricultural Commodity Import Statistics vis-à-vis Export Statistics of the Exporting Countries
Using the import data compiled by the Philippines and comparing these with data as reported by the exporting countries, this study aims to determine the disparity of the statistics from the two sources on the quantity and value of selected agricultural commodities for the years 2000 to 2005. The...Volume 5 Issue No. 2 (December 2008) -
Myanmar in Economic Transition: Constraints and Related Issues Affecting the Agriculture Sector
The paper proceeds from the widely held assessment that Myanmar's economy is handicapped by structural imbalance, instability, inefficient and imperfect markets, and distorted prices. The paper delineates how this general state of affairs is clearly evident in the agricultural sector. It then...Volume 1 Issue No. 2 (December 2004) -
Reconceiving Food Security and Environmental Protection
The twin issues of food security and environmental protection for the remainder of the century will be defined by expectations that the population will continue to grow to 11 billion, mainly in less developed countries (LDCs), as well as by human behavior. This paper considers conventional analyses...Volume 1 Issue No. 2 (December 2004)
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