World Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Abstracts

Overview

World Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Abstracts (WAERSA) is an online bibliographic and abstracts database of internationally published research on applied rural socioeconomic research.

Created and indexed by subject specialists WAERSA provides access to these abstracts alongside comprehensive indexing and classification codes. It includes a fully searchable backfile to 1973 of over 364,000 abstracts with approximately 15,000 new records added each year.

WAERSA is also available monthly in print with author, subject and serials cited indexes, and 8,000 new records added each year.

Delivery Platforms

Coverage
 

Agricultural economics

• Theoretical, regional and country models
• survey methods
• agricultural situation and outlook reports
• agricultural household economics
• production functions

Agricultural policy and development

• Agricultural policy theory models and empirical studies
• agricultural development

Regional policy and development

• Regional planning
• rural development policy
• rural economy
• rural services
• rural infrastructure

Agricultural structure and land issues

• Land valuation
• ownership
• tenure
• farm structure
• agrarian reform
• land reform
• cooperatives

Employment and income

• National policy on agricultural/farm labour
• labour market
• wages and remuneration
• labour productivity
• work organization
• trade unions
• social security
• working conditions
• trends in farm income
• non-farm income
• part-time farming
• diversification

Inputs and input industries

• The economics of the agricultural input industries themselves and of their products (fertilizers, plant protection chemicals, farm machinery, fuels, feeds, seeds, veterinary and pharmaceutical products).
• Includes product supply, demand, policy, regulations, marketing and trade

Biotechnology and genetic resources

• Biotechnology industry
• biodiversity (policy, regulation, international agreements)
• plant and animal genetic engineering

Supply, demand and prices

• Price policy
• demand analysis and supply trends for all agricultural and food products

Food policy and food security

• Food policy
• food security
• theoretical and country models
• food aid
• famine, hunger and nutritional studies

Food industry

• Whole sector studies
• food processing sector
• packing

Non-food industries

• The economics of the cotton, rubber, floriculture and tobacco industries
• Agritourism

Marketing and distribution

• Market regulations
• market competition
• market concentration and integration
• food safety and quality control
• transport
• storage
• wholesale and retail marketing of all agricultural and food products

Consumption and consumer behaviour

• Household and consumer surveys
• food consumption trends
• consumer behaviour
• attitudes
• preferences

International trade

• Trade agreements
• trade negotiations
• trade barriers
• imports
• exports
• terms of trade
• balance of trade for all agricultural and food products

Finance, investment and credit
For the agricultural sector and rural enterprises. Includes support measures;

• subsidies
• intervention
• fiscal and tax policies
• monetary policy
• inflation
• exchange rates
• credit, loans
• banks and other financial institutions
• crop insurance
• farmers' investment decisions
• farm indebtedness

Natural resource economics
The application of the concept of economics to natural resources covering:

• theoretical, regional, country and international models
• environmental policy, protection and management
• environmental impact assessment and valuation studies
• natural resource economics, utilization and management
• sustainability
• biodiversity and wildlife management and conservation
• land use and management
• degradation
• water resource management, irrigation and drainage
• biomass utilization
• fisheries policy and management
• aquaculture

Farm management and decision making

• Farm management, planning, accounting and information systems
• attributes of farm managers

Farming systems
For all types of farming (arable, dairy, etc.):

• costs, returns and profitability of the various types of farm enterprises (organic farming, horticulture, etc.)
• farm results
• farm surveys
• farming systems (including alternative farm enterprises e.g. farm holidays, farm forestry, etc.)

Education, extension and research

• Higher education and training in agriculture and vocational training
• agricultural extension services, participatory extension, diffusion of information and pilot/demonstration farms
• national and regional agricultural and rural research policy and planning
• costs and financing of research
• on-farm and farming systems research (methodology and application)
• innovation adoption

Rural sociology

• State of the subject
• sociology and social policy of rural areas
• rural/urban relations and migration
• rural population trends
• social stratification
• rural families and communities
• behaviour, attitudes and cultural factors
• conflict and political movements

Updates to this list are produced monthly. Designation of Open Access publications are currently available in the downloadable version.

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