Polish agriculture: Fight for control of peasant aid

Production Efficiency in Peasant Agriculture: An Application of LISREL Model

The study examined a simplified conceptual model which incorporates variables that influence the processes and consequences of household decision-making in the Ada and Selale districts of the Ethiopian highlands. Linear structural relations (LISREL) analysis was performed on three conceptual models. The results of LISREL analysis indicate that the magnitude of contribution of factors to product...

State Transitions in Polish Agriculture

Poland’s imminent entry into the EU re-emphasises the long-standing need for the restructuring of the country’s agricultural sector and the associated re-allocation of its bloated workforce. The transition matrix of net flows derived from an annual panel of micro-data taken from the LFS confirms the impression of the stagnation that is conveyed by gross movements that are computable from the pu...

Multifunctionality in Peasant Agriculture: a means of Insertion into Globalization

Peasant agriculture has been neglected as modern farming occupied its space in the production of basic foods. Exclusion of smallholders in LDCs is the outcome of declining prices for basic foods now produced and marketed globally by developed countries. This is an effect of globalization: it responds to advances in information technologies, communications, and biotechnology. Productivity gains ...

CARVER+Shock (Agriculture) - Software for Agriculturists to Fight against Bioterrorism

CARVER+Shock (Agriculture) software is developed by Sandia National Laboratory, USA with the association of USFDA and USDA-APHIS as a food defense tool for farms. In the wake of recent findings on food and agriculture defense studies, it is very useful software to prepare the farm managers to protect against any act and attack of bioterrorism. The software was tested on the north Indian farms a...

Optimization and Optimal Control of Plant Growth: Application of GreenLab Model for Decision Aid in Agriculture