We analyse intertemporal poverty in two important dimensions – income and nutrition – in less developed northwest China during 2000-2004. A generalised recursive selection model is proposed which enables simultaneous estimation of the causes of intertemporal poverty within and between dimensions. Improvement in agricultural production is crucial for reducing both dimensions of intertemporal pov...

Recent empirical evidence suggest that real money balances can be treated as a productive input in production. The reason for incorporating real money balances as a factor of production is because real money balances as a medium of exchange facilitate adjustments between capital and labour for specialisation purposes and thus increase productivity. This study is an attempt to empirically test t...

The study assessed the role and constraints of youth association in agricultural and rural development in Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State, Nigeria. A simple sampling technique was employed to select 100 youth associations used as Sample size for the study. Data were generated using Structured questionnaire and interview schedule. Both descriptive Statistics and mean score were emp...

This short commentary on the Special Issue ‘Agricultural Regimes and Migrant Labour’ emphasises colonial roots of employment conditions labour relations in contemporary capitalist food supply chain; continued reliance agriculture racialisation unfree labour; some individual collective ways which these have been resisted.

diversity, accessibility and reliability are the three main factors governing the adoption of information sources by farmers in rural areas. based on the research hypothesis, the existing knowledge and information delivery system in the agricultural sector, functions far below the ever changing nature and tangible needs of existing farming systems. the main objective in this study is to determi...

Recently, many accidents relating to food happened in Japan. The consumer's distrust for food, food companies, and the administration is increasing. The consumer especially has an extreme refusal feeling for chemicals such as food additives and agricultural chemicals, and begins to request agricultural chemical-free vegetables and food additive-free food. Food companies also state no agricultur...

The world population is expected to reach 9.1 billion by year 2050 says FAO (World Food and Agriculture Organization) and to feed this population food production should be increased by at least 70%. Developing countries have to double their food production. The traditional methods of farming and ever decreasing farm labour availability is making agriculture economically unviable and inefficient...