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Non-timber Forest Products Value Chain Toward Sustainable Livelihood: Exploring Linkages and Trends Using Visual Optimization Network Analysis
Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) contribute significantly to the livelihood, food, and nutrition security of rural communities and forest dwellers. Earlier studies on NTFPs emphasized the economic importance, sustainability aspects, and commercialization of NTFPs, and highlighted the importance of...Volume 17 Issue No. 2 (December 2020) -
Fish and Fishery Products Trade by India: Trends, Competitiveness and Comparative Advantage
This study analyzes the trends and determines the comparative advantage and competitiveness of India’s fish and fishery products trade in the world market and of India’s exports to 10 major destinations over the period of 2000–2021. We use the revealed symmetric comparative...Volume 19 Issue No. 2 (December 2022) -
Hypothesizing ICT4D in Philippine Agriculture: Deriving from Trends, Setting Directions
The yield gap in rice production can be narrowed by improving farmers' access to information. In recent years, the Philippines has witnessed a profusion of information and communication technology (ICT) interventions expected to increase Filipino famers' access to rice farming information, led by...Volume 8 Issue No. 2 (December 2011) -
Trends in India's Agricultural Growth and Its Determinants
The present study discusses the trends in crop sector growth at national and sub-national levels in India. Data on important variables such as area, production, input use, and value of output were compiled for the periods 1967-1968 to 2007-2008 from published sources. The analysis reveals that the...Volume 8 Issue No. 2 (December 2011) -
Integrated Agriculture-Aquaculture Systems in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam: An Analysis of Recent Trends
In order to explain the trends in the development and farm attributes of Integrated Agriculture-Aquaculture (IAA) systems in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam, a participatory community appraisal and two surveys are carried out in three districts with contrasting fish culture input systems. The first...Volume 4 Issue No. 2 (December 2007) -
Foreign Labor Shortages in the Malaysian Palm Oil Industry: Impacts and Recommendations
Malaysia’s plantation industry and economy, as a whole, has benefitted from foreign labor and remains crucially dependent upon it. Yet, this dependence can prevent optimum productivity by disincentivizing mechanization and innovation. Furthermore, foreign workers have historically filled gaps...Volume 17 Issue No. 2 (December 2020) -
Commercialization and Mission Drift in Microfinance: Implications for Rural India
The emergence of microfinance has been justified as a measure to occupy the empty space that was created with the retreat of formal banking as part of structural and neoliberal reforms for rural India in post-1990s. Worldwide, although the microfinance institution (MFI) has been flouted to provide...Volume 17 Issue No. 1 (June 2020) -
Linking the Gross National Happiness Concept to Smallholder Farm Level: An Empirical Application
This study aims to refine the gross national happiness (GNH) development concept of Bhutan at the farm level and to show the major temporal and spatial trends in the development of rural areas with differing agroecological conditions and adoption of cattle crossbreeding. The study areas (four...Volume 16 Issue No. 1 (June 2019) -
Recent Changes in the Bioeconomics of Lobster and Mud Crab Mariculture in Vietnam
The purpose of this paper is to compare trends in the bioeconomics of tropical spiny lobster and mud crab mariculture in Vietnam between 2010 and 2013 using survey processes and bioeconomic analysis. Results show that tropical spiny lobster and mud crab grow-out mariculture remained strongly...Volume 13 Issue No. 2 (December 2016) -
Competitiveness and Trade Performance of India's Dairy Industry
The study investigates the pattern, trends, competitiveness, and determinants of the export of dairy products from India—the world’s largest milk producer. Data show that exports of dairy products from India have witnessed a remarkable growth in recent years. Our estimates also establish...Volume 11 Issue No. 2 (December 2014)
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