The aim of this work is to propose a novel and formal approach evaluate the direct costs diseases caused by different pathogens as well their economic impact on typical Mediterranean grow-out farms culturing European sea bass under scenarios production related biomass produced (farm size) size fish (production strategy). We employ deterministic static model simulate annual income statement thos...

INCE 1974, FOLLOWING PUBLICATION of Schuh’s “The Macroeconomics of Agriculture,” much research effort has been devoted to determining whether and how monetary policy affects the farm sector. One of the more active areas of interest has been the question of whether changes in the money stock affect the farm! nonfarm product relative price ratio. The reason for this particular interest, as descri...

This paper introduces a first outline of a typology of distributed knowledge co-creation in virtual communities based on Porter‘s typology of virtual communities. The typology is based on empirical results from the analyses of social media, and a discussion of case study results from India proves the adaptability as well as usefulness of the typology. At the same time, the case study serves as ...

The technique of the processor farm has become very widely used for paral-lelising applications, often being mentioned without reference to any source. The goal of this work has been to put together a complete and rigorous understanding of what the technique can be used for and what is needed in order to arrive at an eeciently farmed application. This paper consists of these two parts. We have ...

This contribution is based on the personal experiences of the author as a typical crop farmer in Holland in 1925-1991, as a researcher at the Dutch Institute of Agricultural Engineering (19541964), and as the Director of that Institute in the period 1964-1983. In essence, the 20th century developments in mechanized agriculture are considered from a historical perspective. The future of farm mec...

Abstract Participatory modes of agricultural research have gained significant attention over the last 40 years. While many scholars and practitioners agree that engaging farmers other stakeholders is a valuable complement to traditional scientific research, there diversity in goals approaches used by participatory projects. Building on previous conceptual frameworks divergent farming (PFR), we ...

Over the last three decades, few studies have been conducted to tackle complexity and heterogeneity of Bangladesh farming systems. We address these research gaps with a new survey. Accordingly, survey was in North-Western understand how socio-economic traits influence technology adoption identify characterize key farm types. The based on household characteristics, structure, practices livestock...

This paper proposes a new typology to analyze trends among family and nonfamily farms in the Brazilian Amazon between 2006 2015. We highlight two opposite trends: decreasing number of farmers linked commercial production; an increasing dedicated subsistence agriculture. discuss main factors that help explain these trends. First, official legislation limits total income obtained outside farm be ...

Popular government presupposes the existence of liberty, equality, and justice as its fundamental principles. Theoretically these principles prevail in Michigan. Practically they do not. How is it as to political rights ? One-half of the people, though subject to the laws, have no voice in making those laws. Their right to vote and the right of the people to cast their votes for them is denied....