Agricultural Production Economics
Author : David L. Debertin
Publisher :
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 39,36 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Agricultural productivity
ISBN :
Author : David L. Debertin
Publisher :
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 39,36 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Agricultural productivity
ISBN :
Author : Andrew Barkley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 10,34 MB
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136779000
This book showcases the power of economic principles to explain and predict issues and current events in the food, agricultural, agribusiness, international trade, natural resources and other sectors. The result is an agricultural economics textbook that provides students and instructors with a clear, up-to-date, and straightforward approach to learning how a market-based economy functions, and how to use simple economic principles for improved decision making. While the primary focus of the book is on microeconomic aspects, agricultural economics has expanded over recent decades to include issues of macroeconomics, international trade, agribusiness, environmental economics, natural resources, and international development. Hence, these topics are also provided with significant coverage.
Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Documentation Center
Publisher :
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 39,81 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Agriculture
ISBN :
Author : David Colman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 14,80 MB
Release : 1989-02-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521336642
This textbook addresses the main economic principles required by agricultural economists involved in rural development. The principles of 'micro-economics' or 'price-theory' are of relevance to economists everywhere, but this book reinforces the message of their relevance for rural development by explaining the theory in the specific context of the agricultural and food sectors of developing countries. Hypothetical and actual empirical illustrations drawn almost exclusively from such countries distinguish this book from other economic principles texts that draw their examples almost invariably from industrialised countries, and also from books more oriented to the issue of rural development. The first half of the book deals with the underlying principles of production, supply and demand. These are essential tools for the study and management of the agricultural sector and food markets. In the second half, supply and demand are bought together into a chapter of equilibrium and exchange. This is followed by chapters on trade and the theory of economic welfare. In the final chapter it is shown that much of the material in the earlier chapters can be combined by agricultural economists into a system for analysing and comparing the effects of alternative agricultural policies. The ability of agricultural economics to provide a consistent framework for the analysis of policy problems thus enables it to make a key contribution to rural development.
Author : Andrew Boss
Publisher :
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 12,91 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Agriculture
ISBN :
Author : Kent D. Olson
Publisher :
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 41,41 MB
Release : 2011
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 9781405194440
"Farm managers will appreciate this book as they learn the principles of farm management; from the basics of management and economics; to the details of strategy and operations. It presents economic concepts, such as the discussion of markets, competitive forces, and macroeconomics, which is new to farm management texts. Material is included on strategy, marketing, budgeting, production and operations, quality, finance, investment, risk, contracts, staffing, business organisation, farm succession, and the future. Strategic management and quality management as well as new techniques and tools in production and operations management are also examined. This approach will help farm managers improve the efficiency, effectiveness, objectivity, and, ultimately, success of their decisions"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Keith Owen Fuglie
Publisher : CABI
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 20,25 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1845939212
This volume is written primarily for agricultural economists doing research on productivity. It includes discussions of the theoretical underpinnings of productivity measurement as well as the many practical considerations that go into translating this theory into actual measures of aggregated outputs and inputs. The unifying concept of agricultural productivity used across the chapters of this volume is aggregate total factor productivity (TFP) of the sector. The volume also contains detailed analysis of the underlying causes of agricultural productivity growth. Part I (chapters 2-6) examines agricultural productivity in high-income and transition countries. Part II (chapters 7-11) examines agricultural productivity growth and its driving forces in five important agricultural producers in Asia and Latin America. Part III (chapters 12-14) focuses on measuring and identifying constraints to agricultural productivity growth in sub-Saharan Africa. Part IV (chapters 15-16) gives a global perspective on agricultural productivity.
Author : Gerald Schwarz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,23 MB
Release : 2007-08-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134114133
Using Microsoft Excel, the market leading spreadsheet package, this book combines theory with modelling aspects and spreadsheet analysis. Microeconomics Using Excel provides students with the tools with which to better understand microeconomic analysis.It focuses on solving microeconomic problems by integrating economic theory, policy analysis and
Author : Dunstan S. C. Spencer
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 48,8 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Farm management
ISBN :
Agricultural economics paper on the data collecting methodology and research methodology used in conducting a 1970-1972 survey of agricultural management among traditional farmers in Sierra Leone - reviews some alternative methods of farm management and agricultural production economic research, and covers the general principles of field study work in africa, the 'cost route method' of data collecting, etc. Map and references.
Author : Henning Hansen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 29,96 MB
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1135075034
Food and food markets still enjoy a pivotal role in the world economy and the international food industry is moving towards greater consolidation and globalization, with increased vertical integration and changes to market structure. Companies grow bigger in order to obtain economies of scale and issues and such as food security, quality, obesity and health are ever important factors. This book describes the link between food markets and food companies from a theoretical and a business economics perspective. The relationships, trends and impacts on the international food market are presented, and the topic is related to actual business conditions. Each chapter is accompanied by questions and assignments designed to help students in their learning. .