Author: Committee on Biological Threats to Agricultural Pl
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: bioterrorism, agricultural, countering
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2003-04-30
List price: $34.00
ISBN-10: 0309085454
ISBN-13: 9780309085458

Public confidence in the security of the US food and fiber system has been sustained by the quality, variety, abundance, and affordability of agricultural products in the United States. Although the system in place to defend against unintentional threats to agriculture has weaknesses and needs, the demonstrated ability of the system to resolve, accommodate, or manage critical food safety problems, temporary shortages of some commodities, plant and animal infestations and diseases, and natural disasters indicates that, in general, such confidence has been warranted. However, over the last sever

Author: Frank Ellis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: agricultural, rural, development, studies, countries, policies, developing, wye
Number of Pages: 372
Published: 1992-01-31
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0521395844
ISBN-13: 9780521395847

This book is about agricultural policies in developing countries. It concerns the methods used by governments to change the ecomonic and social framework within which agricultural production takes place: by influencing the prices of farm inputs and outputs, by modifying agricultural institutions, and by promoting new technologies in agriculture. The book is organized around a central set of eight policy chapters, covering topics of price policy, marketing policy, input policy, credit policy, mechanization policy, land reform policy, and irrigation policy. These chapters are preceded by mate

Author: Gerrit Hoogenboom
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub
Keywords: agricultural, sustainable, development, approaches, production, options, understanding, system
Number of Pages: 325
Published: 1998-01
List price: $439.00
ISBN-10: 0792348338
ISBN-13: 9780792348337

Understanding Options for Agricultural Production is a synthesis of a global multidisciplinary network of scientists from around the world. This book describes the outputs of the IBSNAT network, including topics on data standards and the minimum data set, crop simulation models of major food crops, and application programs to assess risk resulting from implementation of different management options and strategies. These outputs were integrated into a single portable and functional software product referred to as DSSAT (Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer). Complete des

Authors:C. Romero, T. Rehman,
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Keywords: agricultural, volume, developments, economics, second, decisions, criteria, analysis, multiple
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2003-04-04
List price: $102.00
ISBN-10: 0444503439
ISBN-13: 9780444503435

This book presents the Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) paradigm for modelling agricultural decision-making in three parts. The first part, comprising two chapters, is philosophical in nature and deals with the concepts that define the underlying structure of the MCDM paradigm. The second part is the largest part consisting of five chapters, each of which presents the logic of a specific MCDM technique, and demonstrates how it can be used to model a particular decision problem. In the final part, some selected applications of the MCDM techniques to agricultural problems are presented a

Author: Food and Agriculture Org.
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Keywords: agricultural, training, materials, policies, planning, development, issues, rural, sustainability
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1995-12-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9251036772
ISBN-13: 9789251036778

Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Na
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org
Keywords: agricultural, services, bulletin, fao, quantitative, residues, bibliography, survey
Number of Pages: 174
Published: 1983-04
List price: $12.50
ISBN-10: 9250011571
ISBN-13: 9789250011578

Authors:David Colman, Trevor Young,
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: agricultural, wye, studies, development, countries, rural, developed, economics, markets, prices, principles
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1989-03-31
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0521336643
ISBN-13: 9780521336642

Colman and Young address the main economic principles required by agricultural economists involved in rural development. They draw upon the characteristics of agricultural and food systems in less developed countries to highlight the importance of economic principles. Because argriculture presents unique problems to economists, this book equips the reader with the analytical tools that agricultural economists need for the study of supply, demand, and agricultural markets in developing countries. The book considers the three main strands in the theoretical analysis of agricultural product marke