Agricultural Development and Economic Transformation
Title | Agricultural Development and Economic Transformation PDF eBook |
Author | John W. Mellor |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 2017-10-17 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 3319652591 |
This book examines the role of agriculture in the economic transformation of developing low- and middle-income countries and explores means for accelerating agricultural growth and poverty reduction. In this volume, Mellor measures by household class the employment impact of alternative agricultural growth rates and land tenure systems, and impact on cereal consumption and food security. The book provides detailed analysis of each element of agricultural modernization, emphasizing the central role of government in accelerated growth in private sector dominated agriculture. The book differs from the bulk of current conventional wisdom in its placement of the non-poor small commercial farmer at the center of growth, and explains how growth translates into poverty reduction. This new book is a follow up to Mellor’s classic, prize-winning text, The Economics of Agricultural Development. Listed as a Best Books of 2017: Economics by Financial Times.
Science Breakthroughs to Advance Food and Agricultural Research by 2030
Title | Science Breakthroughs to Advance Food and Agricultural Research by 2030 PDF eBook |
Author | National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Pages | 243 |
Release | 2019-04-21 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0309473926 |
For nearly a century, scientific advances have fueled progress in U.S. agriculture to enable American producers to deliver safe and abundant food domestically and provide a trade surplus in bulk and high-value agricultural commodities and foods. Today, the U.S. food and agricultural enterprise faces formidable challenges that will test its long-term sustainability, competitiveness, and resilience. On its current path, future productivity in the U.S. agricultural system is likely to come with trade-offs. The success of agriculture is tied to natural systems, and these systems are showing signs of stress, even more so with the change in climate. More than a third of the food produced is unconsumed, an unacceptable loss of food and nutrients at a time of heightened global food demand. Increased food animal production to meet greater demand will generate more greenhouse gas emissions and excess animal waste. The U.S. food supply is generally secure, but is not immune to the costly and deadly shocks of continuing outbreaks of food-borne illness or to the constant threat of pests and pathogens to crops, livestock, and poultry. U.S. farmers and producers are at the front lines and will need more tools to manage the pressures they face. Science Breakthroughs to Advance Food and Agricultural Research by 2030 identifies innovative, emerging scientific advances for making the U.S. food and agricultural system more efficient, resilient, and sustainable. This report explores the availability of relatively new scientific developments across all disciplines that could accelerate progress toward these goals. It identifies the most promising scientific breakthroughs that could have the greatest positive impact on food and agriculture, and that are possible to achieve in the next decade (by 2030).
World Development Report 2008
Title | World Development Report 2008 PDF eBook |
Author | World Bank |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 390 |
Release | 2007-10-15 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0821368095 |
The world's demand for food is expected to double within the next 50 years, while the natural resources that sustain agriculture will become increasingly scarce, degraded, and vulnerable to the effects of climate change. In many poor countries, agriculture accounts for at least 40 percent of GDP and 80 percent of employment. At the same time, about 70 percent of the world's poor live in rural areas and most depend on agriculture for their livelihoods. 'World Development Report 2008' seeks to assess where, when, and how agriculture can be an effective instrument for economic development, especially development that favors the poor. It examines several broad questions: How has agriculture changed in developing countries in the past 20 years? What are the important new challenges and opportunities for agriculture? Which new sources of agricultural growth can be captured cost effectively in particular in poor countries with large agricultural sectors as in Africa? How can agricultural growth be made more effective for poverty reduction? How can governments facilitate the transition of large populations out of agriculture, without simply transferring the burden of rural poverty to urban areas? How can the natural resource endowment for agriculture be protected? How can agriculture's negative environmental effects be contained? This year's report marks the 30th year the World Bank has been publishing the 'World Development Report'.
The Development of American Agriculture
Title | The Development of American Agriculture PDF eBook |
Author | Willard W. Cochrane |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 524 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Agriculture |
ISBN | 9781452900537 |
Growth Through Agricultural Progress
Title | Growth Through Agricultural Progress PDF eBook |
Author | Graduate School, USDA. |
Publisher | |
Pages | 88 |
Release | 1961 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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Agricultural Advancement in the United States
Title | Agricultural Advancement in the United States PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Valentine Riley |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1879 |
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Some of the Hindrances and Helps to the Advancement of Agriculture
Title | Some of the Hindrances and Helps to the Advancement of Agriculture PDF eBook |
Author | George Buckland |
Publisher | |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 1869 |
Genre | Agriculture |
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