Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
It is difficult to discuss these differences without the aid of an example. Consider the case of a conventional (see conventional agriculture) apple farmer.This farmer may choose to change his farm to conform to the standards of USDA approved organic agriculture because he felt motivated by social or moral norms or the potential of increased profits or a host of other reasons.
Agricultural economics is an applied field of economics concerned with the application of economic theory in optimizing the production and distribution of food and fiber products. Agricultural economics began as a branch of economics that specifically dealt with land usage. It focused on maximizing the crop yield while maintaining a good soil ...
Rural economics is the study of rural economies. Rural economies include both agricultural and non-agricultural industries, so rural economics has broader concerns than agricultural economics which focus more on food systems. [1] Rural development [2] and finance [3] attempt to solve larger
The largest 1% of farms in the world are greater than 50 hectares (120 acres) and operate more than 70% of the world's farmland. [2] Nearly 40% of agricultural land is found on farms larger than 1,000 hectares (2,500 acres). [2] However, five of every six farms in the world consist of fewer than 2 hectares (4.9 acres), and take up only around ...
Horticulture and agriculture as types of subsistence developed among humans somewhere between 10,000 and 8,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent region of the Middle East. [1] The reasons for the development of agriculture are debated but may have included climate change , and the accumulation of food surplus for competitive gift-giving . [ 2 ]
Josh Hoffman's essay addresses a challenge that many families in agriculture face: the family farm's transition from one generation to the next. Josh Hoffman's essay addresses a challenge that ...
Farm Families and Change in 20th Century America (2014) Gardner, Bruce L. "Changing Economic Perspectives on the Farm Problem." Journal of Economic Literature (1992) 30#1 62–101. in JSTOR; Gardner, Bruce L. American Agriculture in the Twentieth Century: How it Flourished and What it Cost (Harvard UP, 2002).
An agricultural value chain is the integrated range of goods and services (value chain) necessary for an agricultural product to move from the producer to the final consumer. The concept has been used since the beginning of the millennium, primarily by those working in agricultural development in developing countries , although there is no ...