World Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Abstracts

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Agricultural economics

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

Agricultural policy and development

• • - agricultural development
  - agricultural policy theory models and empirical studies

Agricultural structure and land issues

• • - agrarian reform
  • • - cooperatives
    - farm structure
  • - land reform
  - land valuation
• - ownership
• - tenure
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Biotechnology and genetic resources

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

Consumption and consumer behaviour

• • - attitudes
  • - consumer behaviour
  • - food consumption trends
  - household and consumer surveys
• - preferences

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

Employment and income

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

Farm management and decision making

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

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.)

Finance, investment and credit

 For the agricultural sector and rural enterprises. Includes support measures:

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

Food policy and food security

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

Food industry

• - food processing sector
• - packing
• • - whole sector studies

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

International trade

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

Marketing and distribution

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

Natural resource economics

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

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

Non-food industries

• • - agritourism
  - the economics of the cotton, rubber, floriculture and tobacco industries

Regional policy and development

• - regional planning
• - rural development policy
• - rural economy
• • - rural infrastructure
  - rural services

Rural sociology

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

Supply, demand and prices

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

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