In this study, considering the importance of incremental capital output ratio (ICOR) in agriculture Investment capital and self-sufficiency in this sector in order to grow and being influenced by the past and previous relationships strong agricultural sector productivity growth in other sectors of the economy, especially the effect of oil revenues, was trying to, long-term relationships as well...

Food security is an important issue that is of concern for all countries around the world. There are many factors which may cause food insecurity including increasing demand, shortage of supply, trade condition, another countries' food policy, lack of money, high food and oil prices, decelerating productivity, speculation, etc. The food self-sufficiency ratio of Taiwan is only 30.6% weighted by...

Agricultural land use systems have been optimized for producing provisioning ecosystem services (ES) in the past few decades, often at expense of regulating and cultural services. Research has focused mainly on supply side ES related trade-offs, but demand regulatory remains largely neglected. The objective this paper is to evaluate usefulness participatory geographic information system (PGIS) ...

This study aims to provide an accurate and realistic prediction model for electricity demand using population, imports, exports, per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and per capita Gross National Income (GNI) data for India. Four different models were used for different combinations of the above five input variables and the effect of input variables on the estimation of electricity demand ha...

Globalization has led to the unintentional movement of thousands species around world, necessitating a better understanding how are spread by international trade prevent new invasions. However, date, evidence implicating global in intercontinental flows been mixed. Here, we show that commonly used proxies trade, such as general and agricultural imports, fail explain invasion alien ants from don...

Public agricultural research in the United States is conducted by state agricultural experiment stations (SAES) and by the research agencies of the USDA. Both have research activities in every state. A vast amount of research and experiments has shown that the performance of plants and to a lesser extent animals, in which new technologies are frequently embodied, is altered by local geoclimatic...

The objective of this article is to estimate the derived demand for imported cheese products into Japan when cheese import data are disaggregated by specific cheese group and by source country of production+We provide empirical measures of the sensitivity of demand to changes in total imports, own-price, and cross-prices among exporting countries for four market segments of the cheese category+...

During the 19th century the cultivation of grass and root crops for the production of raw sugars was associated with some of the most important developments in the international economy. The burgeoning demand for cheap foodstuffs from the industrial centres of Western Europe and the United States led to an enormous increase in demand for cheap sugm along with other wicultural and industrial com...