1. Sustainable development Today, the concept of sustainability significantly affects our life and economic activities. In 1987, the Bruntland Commission stated: “Humanity has the possibility of making development sustainable, i.e. ensuring that the needs of the present are met without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” (World Commission for environment and ...

1 Department of Animal Science, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan. 2 Taitung Animal Propagation Station, Livestock Research Institute (LRI), Council of Agriculture (COA). No. 30, 27 Line, Binlang Vil., Beinan Township, Taitung County 95445, Taiwan. 3 Department of Animal Science, Chung Hsing University, Taiwan. 4 Animal Products Processing Division, LRI, COA, Tainan...

How important are the 'non-traditional' economic roles of agriculture in development? Randy Stringer Some good reasons explain why early approaches to identifying agriculture’s economic roles resulted in a one-way strategic path that involved the flow of resources towards the industrial sector and urban centres. In an effort to provide a more comprehensive view of the roles that agriculture pla...

Cities are centers of technology-based transformations and play pivotal role in economic procedures. Moreover, cities are the social, cultural pivots and center for political challenges either in peace or violence and war. Cities possess a distinguishing share in societies’ economic growth and development. Future of the development of the developing countries is concentrated in cities. Theref...

among investments in different sections of economy, investment in agriculture is great importance. in addition to increasing production and job opportunities in agriculture, investment in this section will help to increase these in other sections as well, due to back and front relations with other economic activities. due to the fact that investment does not yield rapidly, and it takes some tim...

Using a political economy framework, this paper explores the tax-farming nature of China’s fiscally decentralized system and examines why the system incurs a particularly heavy financial burden on peasants. It points out that a political hierarchy, financed by a tax-farming system in China, fails to contain the exploitative behavior of local officials. Such a system results in expenditure devol...

S the origin of agriculture, the human population and human consumption of resources have increased steadily throughout the world. As a consequence, forests and other natural areas have been transformed into agriculture, pastureland, and cities. Land-use and land-cover change (LUCC) represents one of the most important components of global environmental change. Widespread effects of LUCC includ...

Over the 14 years since economic reform began, and the restructuring of the economy to encourage international trade, a large number of township enterprises have been developed and put into operation in the Peoples Republic of China. From 1978 to 1991, the number of enterprises has increased 11.5 times; the number of employees has increased 2.4 times; the fixed assets have increased 13.7 times;...