For decades, the rural development and poverty alleviation agenda in sub-Saharan Africa has emphasised support for smallholder farming and little else. Foreign large-scale miners and other industrial operators have complied, establishing agriculture-support services and programs for communities...

Developed countries have been researching food expenditure patterns of population for a longer period of time. They found out that importance of food away from home (FAFH) was growing. The latter was mostly a result of development or influence of demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of...

Proceedings of the 2012 Parliamentary Conference, with Sir John Beddington; Professor Jonathon Foley; Dr Derek Byerlee; Dr Frank Rijsberman and others

Increasing population and consumption are placing unprecedented demands on agriculture and natural resources across the planet. Today, approximately a billion people are chronically malnourished while our agricultural systems are concurrently degrading land, water, biodiversity and climate on a...

In the past the oxen were used as working animals, but nowadays in some countries there have been trading with young fattened steer meat. With the help of trading questionnaire we wanted to find out the actual possibilities for sale of breaded steer meat in our country. We used the method of the...

In the paper, actual changes of agricultural structure of Bosnia and Herzegovina, tradition of agricultural economy, transformation of socially-owned agricultural estates and changes in agricultural settlements are analysed. Agricultural areas of Bosnia and Herzegovina have changed more...