Readers may make verbatim copies of this document for non-commercial purposes by any means, provided that this copyright notice appears on all such copies. Abstract: Spatial externalities can affect economic welfare and landscape pattern by linking farm returns on adjoining parcels of land. While policy can be informed by research that documents spatial externalities, statistically quantifying ...

62 Optimal Transportation and Spatial Integration of Regional Palm Oil Markets in Nigeria L.O.E. Nwauwa, Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria K.O. Adenegan, Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria M.A.Y. Rahji, Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, U...

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 ...

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...

Given the specific geographic and spatial location of rural areas in developing countries, to bring agrochemical to the rural farming households, it is argued, may have to come at a cost over and above the normal price it is sold in market. To this end, this work focuses on the willingness of rural farming households to pay more than the mean average regional retail price for agrochemicals in K...

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...