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Enhancement of Trade and Investment in Agriculture Between Australia and Vietnam: Opportunities and Challenges
This article highlights bilateral investment and trade between Australia and Vietnam. Through analysis of the situation of trade and investment in agriculture and addressing strengths and weaknesses in agriculture of each country, opportunities and threats in fostering trade and investment in...Volume 15 Issue No. 2 (December 2018) -
Rice Yield Gap between Myanmar and Vietnam: A Matter of Price Policy or Public Investment in Technology?
This paper examines the rice yield gap between Myanmar and Vietnam, two countries that show a stark contrast in terms of rice production in the past two decades. It considers the impact on yield of price policies and public investments in production technology. While domestic rice prices were once...Volume 10 Issue No. 1 (June 2013) -
Economic Cost and Returns from Research and Development: The Case of Chili in Bangladesh
The study estimated the benefit and rate of returns to investment on chili research and development (R&D) in Bangladesh. The Economic Surplus Model with ex-post analysis was used to determine the returns to investment and their distribution between production and consumption. Several discounting...Volume 12 Issue No. 1 (June 2015) -
Foreign Direct Investment and Agricultural Growth: Panel Data Evidence on Chinese FDI Inflows in African Countries
This study examined the impact of Chinese foreign direct investment (CFDI) on the annual growth rate (AGR) of agricultural value added in Africa and analyzed the correlation between AGR and employment in the agriculture sector (EIA) from 2003 to 2021. The study employed annual...Volume 22 Issue No. 1 (June 2025) -
Economic Cooperation in Natural Rubber: The Impacts on Natural Rubber's World Supply and Indonesia's Economy
In 1999, the International Natural Rubber Agreement (INRA) which had regulated the world’s natural rubber since 1979 collapsed. This paper analyzed the impacts of this international agreement on both the global trade and supply of natural rubber as well as on Indonesia, a major producer of...Volume 10 Issue No. 2 (December 2013) -
Global Financial and Food Price Crisis: A Double Shock on ASEAN Food Security
The food price crisis that occurred in the mid-2000s and the global financial crisis that transpired in 2008 had an enduring impact on developing and emerging countries where investment growth rates have declined sharply. Food insecurity has also become an important concern. Using a food security...Volume 14 Issue No. 1 (June 2017) -
The Transformation of Food Retail in the Philippines
From a small base by the end of the 1990s, modern retail (the chains selling at least some food) in the Philippines grew very rapidly in the 2000s, at thrice the rate of the country's GDP growth. Reaching 13 billion USD of overall sales by 2010, 5.25 billion USD of this amount came from food...Volume 6 Issue No. 2 (December 2009) -
Exploring Pathways for Promoting and Scaling Up Climate-Smart Agriculture in Myanmar
This paper explores potential pathways for promoting and scaling up the uptake of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) in Myanmar, using qualitative methods. Key informant interviews with stakeholders from government, research institutes, international and local development agencies, and...Volume 19 Issue No. 1 (June 2022) -
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) -
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)
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