This research examined the inequality that emerges as Indonesia's economy shifts from an agricultural to a non-agricultural sector at subnational level. These questions include: (1) How has in Indonesian provinces changed over past two decades? (2) What was widespread impact of several socioeconomic variables on transformation agriculture? (3) sub-sector responded dynamics these factors last de...

Economic development and structural transformation are dynamic processes in which sectoral interactions are numerous and multidirectional. Recent growth literature has noted that many of these effects occur in the form of externalities not captured in a neoclassical accounting of intersectoral resource flows and price adjustments. This work has emphasized, for example, that increasing returns p...

The Innovation Fund for Agricultural Transformation (IFAT) is a proposed in-country agricultural funding initiative to support the transformation of the agriculture sector in the developing countries in Africa, through the Integrated Agricultural Research for Development (IAR4D) concept. The IAR4D concept fosters the generation of innovations, sustainability of smallholder farmer’s livelihood, ...

The most important public health priority in agricultural policy-making is currently food safety, despite the relatively higher importance of food security, nutrition, and other agricultural-related health issues in terms of global burden of disease. There is limited experience worldwide of using health impact assessment (HIA) during the development of agriculture and food policies, which perha...

Tensions over water resources in upland areas of northern Thailand are often attributed to reductions in water supply caused by forest clearing. This article argues that the hydrological evidence for such reductions in supply is very weak and that, rather, the key hydrological issue in upland catchments is a significant increase in water demand, especially during the dry season. The arguments a...