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We investigate long-term productivity trends in a representative intensive rice cropping system using periodic farm level survey data spanning more [...]

This article explores the role of migrant networks in Mexican rural out-migration focusing on how network composition influences rural-to-rural, rural-to-urban, [...]

The paper clarifies the “meso-economy” concept by defining it as comprising both the market mechanisms and administrative procedures through which [...]

This publication contains four in-depth reviews on current and emerging issues in the economic analysis of food, agriculture and rural [...]

Golden rice (GR) is a new rice variety that has been genetically modified to contain beta-carotene, a source of vA. [...]

The world rice market has been unstable for much of its post-world war II history, with prices volatile and the [...]

In recent years, there has been increasing emphasis in the rural development literature on the multiple income-generating activities undertaken by rural [...]

Evidence from developing countries points towards the growing importance of non-farm activities in the income-generating portfolio of rural households (Lanjouw [...]

The State of Food and Agriculture 2002 is FAO’s annual report on current developments and issues in world agriculture. It [...]

Urbanization and globalization may enhance access to non traditional foods as a result of changing prices and production practices, as [...]