This research investigates the efficiency and equity impacts of the cropland rental market in rural Vietnam and attempts to identify the determinants and importance of transaction costs impeding this market. A generalised ordered logit model with shifting thresholds accounting for effects of...

This paper is a current draft of my Honours research project, and looks into whether changing economic variables have any predictive power on changing rural land use in recent years. To do this I attempt to answer three questions: 1. Do recent commodity prices have any predictive power on land...

The aim of this study was to investigate the social influence that the recent growth of dairying has had in Southland. Over 60 semi-structured and informal interviews were undertaken with a wide cross-section of organisations and individuals. Quantitative data was used to complement the...

This study examined consumer attitudes towards food attributes and origins, alongside consumer’s willingness to pay (WTP) for food certified for these attributes in China, India and the UK. The study used surveys including a choice experiment undertaken in each country. The economic impact of...

O objetivo desta pesquisa é investigar as possibilidades de expansão das exportações agrícolas do Brasil para a União Européia (UE) estimuladas pelo rebaixamento de barreiras protecionistas deste mercado no contexto das negociações do Acordo Mercosul-União Européia. Em especial,...

This paper updates an analysis of returns from major productive land uses in New Zealand carried out in 2008. Trends in profitability over time are shown, and a preliminary investigation of the relationship between land-use change towards forestry (new land planting) and forestry profitability...

Além das vantagens econômicas e dos benefícios ambientais, a produção de biodiesel em larga escala será importante instrumento de geração de renda no meio rural, com impacto significativo sobre a agricultura familiar. Uma das maiores motivações para a produção desse combustível...

O objetivo deste trabalho foi identificar as principais atividades agropecuárias e as formas de organização social dos produtores familiares da região de Marília, Estado de São Paulo, no período de 2000 a 2005. Foram coletadas informações junto a técnicos da Casa da Agricultura,...