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on Agricultural Economics |
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Issue of 2009‒08‒22
nine papers chosen by |
| By: | SriSubramaniam, Guruswamy; Sairavi, Subramaniam |
| Abstract: | Food production has been one of the major concerns for Indian political climate. Major agricultural changes and policies were initiated to bring more agricultural productivity in India. Union Government also strives to bring more growth in Agricultural sector through five year plan initiations. Yet, result seems to be slower agricultural growth and lack of proper vision & implementation. Major concerns like water availability, improper distribution & water management, pollution, increasing population, rural migration to urban, economic diversion towards other sectors, and increasing rural poverty are in increasing trend. Authors bring statistical evidence for above mentioned concerns and decision makers to consider these issues critically for any policy initiations. Authors stress that unless agricultural productivity increases, average Indian poverty statistics will not reduce. By 2030, India will reach first in world population, might also face severe food crisis. It’s now time for Indian government to rethink on their economic policies to bring life for dieing agricultural sector. |
| Keywords: | Indian agriculture; Food production; Agricultural growth; future of Indian agriculture; Sustainable Agricultural development |
| JEL: | O1 Q1 Q17 O13 N5 |
| Date: | 2009–08–17 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:16866&r=agr |
| By: | Larry Janssen (Department of Economics, South Dakota State University); Burton Pflueger (Department of Economics, South Dakota State University) |
| Abstract: | Agricultural land values and cash rental rates in South Dakota, by region and by state, are the primary topics of this report. The target audiences for this report are farmers and ranchers, landowners, agricultural professionals (lenders, rural appraisers, professional farm managers), and policy makers interested in agricultural land market trends. This report contains the results of the 2009 SDSU South Dakota Farm Real Estate Market Survey, the 19th annual SDSU survey developed to estimate agricultural land values and cash rental rates by land use in different regions of South Dakota. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural Land,farmland, Cropland, Land Ownership, Land leasing, Land Use, Landownership |
| JEL: | Q12 Q15 |
| Date: | 2009–06 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:sda:rerepo:200901&r=agr |
| By: | Orazio Attanasio (Institute for Fiscal Studies and University College London); Erich Battistin (Institute for Fiscal Studies); Alice Mesnard (Institute for Fiscal Studies) |
| Abstract: | <p>We study food Engel curves among the poor population targeted by a conditional cash transfer programme in Colombia. After controlling for the endogeneity of total expenditure and for the (unobserved) variability of prices across villages, the best fit is provided by a log-linear specification. Our estimates imply that an increase in total expenditure by 10% would lead to a decrease of 1% in the share of food. However, quasi-experimental estimates of the impact of the programme on total and food consumption show that the share of food increases, suggesting that the programme has more complex impacts than increasing household income. In particular, our results are not inconsistent with the hypothesis that the programme, targeted to women, could increase their bargaining power and induce a more than proportional increase in food consumption.</p> |
| Keywords: | Demand patterns, food Engel curves, evaluation of welfare programme |
| JEL: | C52 D12 I38 |
| Date: | 2009–07 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ifs:ifsewp:09/15&r=agr |
| By: | Janssen, Larry (South Dakota State University); Pflueger, Burton (South Dakota State University) |
| Date: | 2009–06 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:sda:ibrief:2009508&r=agr |
| By: | Akay, Alpaslan (IZA); Martinsson, Peter (University of Gothenburg); Medhin, Haileselassie (University of Gothenburg) |
| Abstract: | We investigated attitudes toward positionality among rural farmers in Northern Ethiopia, using a tailored survey experiment. On average, we found positional concerns neither in income per se nor in income from aid projects among the farmers. These results support the claim that positional concerns are positively correlated with absolute level of income of a country. |
| Keywords: | Ethiopia, positional concern, relative income |
| JEL: | C90 D63 |
| Date: | 2009–08 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:izadps:dp4354&r=agr |
| By: | Taylor, Gary (South Dakota State University) |
| Date: | 2009–04 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:sda:ibrief:2009507&r=agr |
| By: | Clément De Chaisemartin (Department of Economics, Ecole Polytechnique - CNRS : UMR7176 - Polytechnique - X); Thuriane Mahé (Department of Economics, Ecole Polytechnique - CNRS : UMR7176 - Polytechnique - X) |
| Abstract: | We explore the willingness-to-pay (WTP) to fight climate change in a choice experiment. Since tree planting prevents climate change, subjects are offered to choose between receiving a high amount of money or receiving a lower amount of money plus participating to tree planting action. This allows us to get an individual interval of the WTP to prevent climate change. We also set the experiment to control for framing effects: we measure whether subjects WTP is higher not to prevent a tree planting action (negative framing) than to contribute to it (positive framing). Finally, we measure subjects' individual characteristics like altruism and risk aversion with a questionnaire, to understand the determinants of WTP. The results show that the WTP to prevent climate change is high: subjects are ready to give up half their gains to participate to a tree planting action. Women tend to have a higher WTP. We also find that both altruistic and self-interested motives can explain WTP. Surprisingly, their degree of knowledge of climate change related issues do not influence subjects WTP. Finally, when the choice is negatively phrased, WTP increases: subjects are ready to pay more not to make the number of trees planted decrease than to increase it. This suggests that negative eco-labelling might have a greater impact on consumer preferences than positive labels. |
| Keywords: | willingness-to-pay, preferences elicitation, carbon-offset schemes, framing effect, climate change. |
| Date: | 2009–03–25 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-00370738_v1&r=agr |
| By: | Stefano Balbi (PhD Candidate in Analysis and Governance of Sustainable Development, Ca' Foscari University of Venice.); Carlo Giupponi (Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Department of Economics Center for Environmental Economics and Management) |
| Abstract: | The integrated - environmental, economic and social - analysis of climate change calls for a paradigm shift as it is fundamentally a problem of complex, bottom-up and multi-agent human behaviour. There is a growing awareness that global environmental change dynamics and the related socio-economic implications involve a degree of complexity that requires an innovative modelling of combined social and ecological systems. Climate change policy can no longer be addressed separately from a broader context of adaptation and sustainability strategies. A vast body of literature on agent-based modelling (ABM) shows its potential to couple social and environmental models, to incorporate the influence of micro-level decision making in the system dynamics and to study the emergence of collective responses to policies. However, there are few publications which concretely apply this methodology to the study of climate change related issues. The analysis of the state of the art reported in this paper supports the idea that today ABM is an appropriate methodology for the bottom-up exploration of climate policies, especially because it can take into account adaptive behaviour and heterogeneity of the system's components. |
| Keywords: | Review, Agent-Based Modelling, Socio-Ecosystems, Climate Change, Adaptation, Complexity. |
| JEL: | Q |
| Date: | 2009 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ven:wpaper:2009_15&r=agr |
| By: | Hamda, Yonas (South Dakota State University); Qasmi, Bashir (South Dakota State University); Fausti, Scott (South Dakota State University) |
| Date: | 2009–07 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:sda:ibrief:2009509&r=agr |