Editorial by Roger Spear ............................................................................................. 3 Communicating the Co-operative Message: A Case Study of the Irish Credit Union Movement by Olive McCarthy and Michael Ward .................. 8 Innovating a Joint Buying System through IT by Akira Kurimoto. ..................... 15 Social Movements and Co-operatives: Implicat...

"This paper assesses the usefulness of economic-demographic simulation models for policy analysis, emphasizing in particular the relevance of the current state of the art for agricultural development planners. A critical review of eight models defines the range of questions that can be answered with particular models, evaluating the reasonableness of their specifications and the probable qualit...

Basic concepts and philosophy of integrated pest management are presented in order to dispel several misconceptions and to provide the necessary background information for discussion of its relationship to the health-related effects of pesticide use. Implications for human health of current pesticide practices in Central America are examined to illustrate major problems associated with the inju...

The author briefly describes the work of Malthus and the development of first- and second-generation economic-demographic models. He then discusses a proposed third-generation model which "examines conjointly both consequences and determinants of population growth, and analyzes them at the level of the agricultural household." A project being conducted by the Food and Agricultural Organization ...

Climate change and its effects have become a major developmental challenge of Africa in the millennium. The problem of environmental degradation and decreased agricultural production are some of its major effects. The study was , therefore ,conducted to evaluate the extent of adoption of climate change adaptation technologies by farmers in Obudu Agricultural zone of Cross River State. In conduc...

At present, China has more than 6000 agricultural website. But with the development of network technology, further perfect the logistics distribution technology and the consumer is the pursuit of personalized demand situation, agricultural e-commerce website will have great development space, through the investigation of related domestic website found that domestic agricultural e-commerce is st...

The implementation in Malawi of a large scale agricultural input subsidy programme in 2005/6 and subsequent years has attracted significant international interest. This paper reviews the background, implementation and impacts of the programme from 2005/6 to 2008/9. The programme is estimated to have raised national maize production by 26 to 60 percent. In so doing, the programme has contributed...

investing in research and development spending (r&d) affects total factor productivity (tfp).recently new theories of economic growth have emphasized the relationship between r&d and tfpand also identified a number of channels through which a country’s r&d affects tfp of its tradepartner. this study seeks to estimate the effect of agricultural r&d and education spending and some...