Unless we look anew at agriculture in terms of the balances between wider benefits and impacts and link this to current and future societal drivers, we will continue to pay lip service to the concept of sustainability without ever developing ways to achieve it, they argue. Part of the problem in facing the future is the remarkable past achievements. In recent decades there has been a huge growt...

the quality of firms’ reaction against demand uncertainty affects the production inputs employment. in this research i have studied and compared the behavior of active firms in manufacturing sector with respect to the risk attitude and tested it’s effect on production inputs combination(with the special emphasize on labor employment). the research findings reveal that active firms in manufactur...

Today’s acute world food situation is shaped by volatility of food prices, low growth in agricultural productivity, and severe constraints on access to investment capital for agriculture. The sharp rise in global food prices in 2007–08 severely undermined the nutrition security of the poor, provoked social and political instability, and increased competition for already limited natural resource...

The Mexican, Asian, and Russian crises of the midand late 1990s, have renewed the interest among policymakers in the determinants and effects of private capital flows. This paper analyzes whether policies can affect the composition of capital inflows and whether different compositions aggravate crises. We find that, while fundamentals matter, capital controls can affect the mix of capital inflo...

communication technologies) and accompanying new forms of social organisation (the existential centrality of what Alain Touraine [] called auto-géstion) have effectively socialised the means of immaterial production, putting them at the direct disposition of the computer-literate multitude. Social production has at the same time been greatly empowered, and liberated from direct capitalist c...

We examine the energy-food nexus using dependence-switching copula model. Specifically, we look at dependence for four distinct market states, such as, increasing oil–increasing commodity, declining oil–declining as well commodity markets. Our results support argument that crash of oil markets and agricultural commodities happen same time, especially during crisis period. However, is not true t...

This paper emphasizes the benefits of an agricultural strategy of development in developing countries. It begins by analyzing the close links between food and employment in the development process. In an underdeveloped country, food production is minimal, but demand is as well because of the small population growth. After development begins, income rises and food demand outstrips production....