La configuracion actual de los sistemas agroalimentarios y la evolucion de las caracteristicas de la demanda de alimentos han motivado en los ultimos anos la proliferacion, en diferentes paises, de un conjunto de estrategias que representan una busqueda de alternativas a las formas mas...

Numerous observers have charged US agricultural data systems with conceptual obsolescence Although some modernization has occurred, particularly in providing information about commercial farms, agricultural and rural data bases have failed to keep up with production and structural changes in the...

Drawing on the case of Dharmapuri District, South India, the article aims to investigate the potential and the constraints by which agricultural biotechnologies can be employed to serve the purpose of agricultural and rural development. The analysis follows two main routes: on one side it...

A summary function describing the relationship between output level, conservation reserve program (CRP) acreage, and production costs for major US field crops indicates that extending the CRP from 40 million to 44 million acres in 1990 could raise the bid price for CRP land as much as 7 percent....