SABIIA - Sistema Aberto e Integrado de Informação em Agricultura (Sabiia)

Burger, Anna; Szep, Katalin.

Combined elaboration of the first and second parts of papers prepared for presentation at the IAMO FORUM 2007 Halle, Germany 24-29 June 2007 and the IAAE-EAAE 104th seminar Budapest, Hungary 6-8 September 2007. In 2003 a research study looked at the position of smallholders; the survey was carried out using questionnaires and interviews. The farms included in the survey were situated in 3 counties in the Southern Great Plain of Hungary and in 3 counties of the western part of the country (Transdanubia). The results of the survey showed that there was a firm tendency of concentration among the Hungarian individual farms. Though their average size is about 3 ha, the number and area of farms over 50 ha size are rapidly growing and taking a significant part...

Evolution of tubewell ownership and production in the North China Plain

Palavras-chave: Agricultural production; Family farms; Land tenure; Land use; Trade; Finances; Profitability; Consumer/Household Economics; Farm Management.

Ano: 2007

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/9512

Modelling the likely impact of healthy eating guidelines on agriculture in England and Wales

Wang, Jinxia; Huang, Jikun; Rozelle, Scott.

The overall aim of the present paper is to better understand the evolution of tubewell ownership in the North China Plain, especially focusing on the factors that determine ownership and its effect on production. Based on a random sample of 30 villages in three counties in the Hai River Basin, our results show that collectively owned tubewells have been gradually privatised. The analyses demonstrate that increasing water and land scarcity and policy intervention (mainly fiscal and financial subsidies for tubewell investment) leads to the observed shifts in tubewell ownership patterns. The results also show that the privatisation of tubewells has affected cropping patterns in the North China Plain. When villages shift towards private tubewells, farmers move...

Tipo: Article

Palavras-chave: Agricultural production; China; Privatisation; Subsidies; Tubewell ownership; Water scarcity; Agribusiness.

Ano: 2005

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/118452

Arnoult, Matthieu H.; Jones, Philip J.; Tranter, Richard B.; Tiffin, J. Richard; Traill, W. Bruce.

Household food consumption data is used to estimate likely changes in diet under healthy eating guidelines, and the consequences this would have on the agricultural sector in England and Wales. The first step entails imposing nutrient restrictions on food consumption following dietary recommendations. The resulting diet is then used as a proxy for demand in agricultural commodities, to test the impact of such a scenario on agricultural land use and production. Results of the diet optimisation indicate a severe drop in foods rich in saturated fats and sugar, essentially cheese and sugar-based products, along with lesser cuts in fat and meat products Conversely, consumption of fruit & vegetables, cereals, and flour would increase to meet dietary fibre...

Agricultural production in Greater Sekhukhune: the future for food security in a poverty node of South Africa?

Palavras-chave: Dietary guidelines; Land use; Agricultural production; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Land Economics/Use.

Ano: 2008

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44331

Drimie, Scott; Germishuyse, T.; Rademeyer, L.; Schwabe, Craig.

This paper argues that within the range of complementary activities necessary to secure the food security of marginalised groups in South Africa in places such as Greater Sekhukhune, the aspect of agricultural production is often neglected. A comprehensive approach to food security should focus on exploiting opportunities around increasing local food availability through production, as well as stimulating food accessibility by, for example, supporting small enterprises through micro-credit, and supporting food utilisation through education. In this way a range of options is created that vulnerable people can adopt to promote their livelihoods beyond survivalist strategies. This paper explores the issue of agricultural production within Greater Sekhukhune...

Tipo: Journal Article

Palavras-chave: Food security; Agricultural production; Household surveys; Greater Sekhukhune; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty.

Ano: 2009

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55045

Developing effective institutions for water resources management: A case study in the Deduru Oya Basin, Sri Lanka

Somaratne, Pallewatte G.; Jinapala, Kiribandage; Perera, L.R.; Ariyaratne, Badugodahewa Ranjith; Bandaragoda, Don Jayatissa; Makin, I.W..

The world food situation: New driving forces and required actions

Palavras-chave: River basins; Water resource management; Water lifting; Wells; Domestic water; Population; Economic aspects; Income; Irrigation programs; Institutions; Policy; Groundwater; Agricultural development; Fish farming; Pumps; Ecology; Water supply; Drought; Poverty; Land use; Water scarcity; Natural resources; Agricultural production; Cropping systems; Agricultural and Food Policy; Agricultural Finance; Consumer/Household Economics; Crop Production/Industries; Food Security and Poverty; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; Land Economics/Use; Political Economy; Production Economics; Public Economics; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.

Ano: 2003

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/92665

Irrigation management transfer in Mexico: A strategy to achieve irrigation district sustainability

von Braun, Joachim.

The world food situation is currently being rapidly redefined by new driving forces. Income growth, climate change, high energy prices, globalization, and urbanization are transforming food consumption, production, and markets. The influence of the private sector in the world food system, especially the leverage of food retailers, is also rapidly increasing. Changes in food availability, rising commodity prices, and new producer–consumer linkages have crucial implications for the livelihoods of poor and food-insecure people. Analyzing and interpreting recent trends and emerging challenges in the world food situation is essential in order to provide policymakers with the necessary information to mobilize adequate responses at the local, national, regional,...

Tipo: Report

Palavras-chave: World food situation; Globalization; Food security; Agricultural production; Markets; Food prices; Climate change; Food Security and Poverty.

Ano: 2007

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55645

CHANGES IN AGRICULTURAL MARKETS IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES

Johnson, Sam H., III.

Describes the process of transfer of irrigation districts in Mexico from public ownership to joint management, where responsibility for irrigation O&M is shared between the public irrigation agency and water user associations. It evaluates the sustainability of transferred systems and discusses needed changes.

Tipo: Report

Palavras-chave: Irrigation management; Privatization; Participatory management; Agricultural production; Sustainability; Private sector; Public sector; Economic aspects; Water users' associations; Investment; Agricultural policy; Irrigated farming; Water law; User charges; Land ownership; Mexico; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Agricultural Finance; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Crop Production/Industries; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; Land Economics/Use; Marketing; Production Economics.

Ano: 1997

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/52799

Liefert, William M.; Swinnen, Johan F.M..

Economic reform in the transition economies of the former Soviet bloc has transformed the volume and mix of these economies' agricultural production, consumption, and trade. Output drops in most countries have ranged from 25 to 50 percent. The livestock sector has been hit particularly hard, all but eliminating U.S. grain exports to the region. This report concludes that the output decline has been an inevitable part of market reform and that the main goal of agricultural policy in the transition economies should not be to return output to pre-reform levels but to increase the productivity of input use. Although reform has created a food security problem in some countries, the cause of the problem is not insufficient food supplies, but rather inadequate...

Tipo: Report

Palavras-chave: Russia; Ukraine; Former Soviet Union; Central and Eastern European countries; Transition economies; Agricultural production; Livestock sector; Food consumption; Trade; Policy reform; Productivity; International Relations/Trade.

Ano: 2002

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/33945

GENERATING PLAUSIBLE CROP DISTRIBUTION MAPS FOR SUB-SAHARA AFRICA USING SPATIAL ALLOCATION MODEL

You, Liangzhi; Wood, Stanley; Wood-Sichra, Ulrike.

Spatial data, which are data that include the coordinates (either by latitude/longitude or by other addressing methods) on the surface of the earth, are essential for agricultural development. As fundamental parameters for agriculture policy research agricultural production statistics by geopolitical units such as country or sub-national entities have been used in many econometric analyses. However, collecting sub-national data is quite difficult in particular for developing countries. Even with great effort and only on regional scales, enormous data gaps exist and are unlikely to be filled. On the other hand, the spatial scale of even the subnational unit is relatively large for detailed spatial analysis. To fill these spatial data gaps we proposed a...

DEVELOPMENT OF SMES IN AGRIBUSINESS OF VOJVODINA COMMUNES - STATE AND PERSPECTIVES

Palavras-chave: Sub-Sahara Africa; Cross entropy; Satellite image; Spatial allocation; Agricultural production; Crop suitability; Crop Production/Industries; C60; Q15; Q24.

Ano: 2004

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/19965

Popovic, Blazenka S.; Paunovic, Tamara Z.; Maletic, Zoran M..

Agriculture as the economic sector is an important factor of economic development of Serbia and an important part of economic structure. Serbia has agrarian resources (land, climate and water) that are not used enough, and therefore, represent a significant economic potential for further development. Vojvodina is the best-developed economic region of the Republic of Serbia, with dominant role of agricultural production. The main economic potential of Vojvodina development is, among other things, the strengthening and improvement of agriculture in the private sector. Economic potential of agriculture impose the need to analyze this situation in the field of small and medium sized entrepreneurship as the bearer of the future development of agriculture in...

Benefits of Protecting Rural Water Quality: An Empirical Analysis

Palavras-chave: Agricultural production; Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs); Clusters analysis; Clustering of communes in Vojvodina; Agribusiness; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Public Economics.

Ano: 2009

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/57643

Crutchfield, Stephen R.; Feather, Peter; Hellerstein, Daniel.

Concerns about the impact of farm production on the quality of the Nation's drinking and recreational water resources have risen over the past 10 years. Because point sources of pollution were controlled first, agricultural nonpoint sources have become the Nation's largest remaining single water-quality problem. Both public and private costs of policies that address the conflict between agricultural production and water quality are relevant, but measuring the off-farm benefits and costs of changing water quality is difficult. Many of the values placed on these resources are not measured in traditional ways through market prices. This report explores the use of nonmarket valuation methods to estimate the benefits of protecting or improving rural water...

Tipo: Report

Palavras-chave: Water quality; Nonpoint source pollution; Environmental quality; Agricultural production; Costs; Benefits; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.

Ano: 1995

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/33949

IMPACT ON FOOD SECURITY AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT OF REALLOCATING WATER FROM AGRICULTURE

Rosegrant, Mark W.; Ringler, Claudia.

"August 1999". Includes bibliographical references (p.42-48).

A well of one's own: gender analysis of an irrigation program in Bangladesh

Palavras-chave: Water transfers; Water scarcity; Agricultural production; Projections of food supply and demand; Demand management; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Food Security and Poverty; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.

Ano: 1999

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/97500

Jordans, Eva H.; Zwarteveen, Margreet Z..

Tipo: Book

Palavras-chave: Irrigation management; Groundwater irrigation; Gender; Women in development; Poverty; Households; Agricultural production; Privatization; Farm Management; Food Security and Poverty.

Ano: 1997

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/113611

Increasing agricultural production in Nepal: role of low-cost irrigation development through farmer participation

CARACTERÍSTICAS DE LA AGRICULTURA PROTEGIDA Y SU ENTORNO EN MÉXICO

Pradhan, Prachanda.

This book reveals that Nepal irrigation policy directives and resources must be channeled to encourage the participation of beneficiaries and to focus the functions of the Department of Irrigation on a management perspective . The low cost approaches recommended in the paper include : 1) incorporating farmer participation in operation and management, 2) considering lower cost structures in surface irrigation and underground water development and, 3) improving the management of irrigation systems

Tipo: Book

Palavras-chave: Agricultural production; Farmer participation; Irrigated farming; Benefits; Cost recovery; Farmer-agency interactions; Farmer managed irrigation systems; Farm Management.

Ano: 1989

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/114039

Moreno Resendez, Alejandro; Aguilar Duron, Juanita; Luevano Gonzalez, Armando.

The Secretaria de Agricultura, Ganadería, Desarrollo Rural, Pesca y Alimentación (SAGARPA) and the Universidad Autónoma Agraria Antonio Narro (UAAAN) have signed agreements, looking a vision more attached to the reality of the conditions, factors and obstacles that affect productive process in Mexico, in order to generate recommendations that increase the efficiency of the involved programs of support with the farming production. Derived of the participation in the Rapid Assessment of Program Acquisition of Productive Assets: Component Protected Agriculture 2008, the characteristics and the context are approached in which the agriculture protected in Mexico is develops. The definition of “protected agriculture” settles down, their characteristics are...

Tipo: Journal Article

Palavras-chave: Greenhouse; Agriculture; Environmental risks; Agricultural production; Vegetables.; Agribusiness.

Ano: 2011

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/114479

SPATIAL DEVELOPMENTS OF HUNGARIAN AGRICULTURE IN THE TRANSITION: THE CASE OF CROP PRODUCTION

Ferto, Imre.

The paper investigates spatial changes in cultivation and land use of wheat, maize and oilseed in Hungarian agriculture using different methods to measure these changes. The results suggest that spatial structure of crop productions has remained fairly stable during analysed period. The spatial concentration increased significantly for wheat and maize production and maize land use, whilst the changes were not significant for other cases. Estimates confirm the presence of spatial autocorrelation for all cases. The degree of spatial autocorrelation has no unambiguous pattern over time, except for maize production. Finally, we have not found significant relationship measured by PSE index between agricultural support and spatial concentration, but estimates...

Impact assessment of irrigation management transfer in the Alto Rio Lerma Irrigation District, Mexico

Palavras-chave: Agricultural production; Land use; Spatial analysis; Hungary; Agribusiness; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Crop Production/Industries; International Development; Land Economics/Use; Q13; Q18.

Ano: 2007

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/90871

Kloezen, Wim H.; Garces-Restrepo, Carlos; Johnson, Sam H., III.

Tests the hypothesis that, in general, irrigation management transfer has positive impacts on operation performance, managerial accountability, O&M budgeting and expenditures, costs of water to farmers, and agricultural and economic productivity in the Alto Rio Lerma Irrigation District in Mexico. Evaluates the potential of the Mexican IMT process as a model for other countries.

Tipo: Report

Palavras-chave: Irrigation management; Privatization; Assessment; Economic aspects; Legal aspects; Data collection; Water rights; Water allocation; Water distribution; Groundwater; Financing; Maintenance; Operations; Agricultural production; Water users' associations; Farmer participation; Mexico; Alto Rio Lerma Irrigation District; Agricultural and Food Policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Crop Production/Industries; Farm Management; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.

Ano: 1997

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61110

THE CHALLENGE OF CONFORMING TO SANITARY AND PHYTOSANITARY MEASURES FOR CHINA'S AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS

Dong, Fengxia; Jensen, Helen H..

China's bilateral trade in food and agricultural products has grown dramatically since the country's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO). However, the country faces significant problems related to sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) compliance because of increasing concerns about food safety, stricter SPS requirements in trade, and competitiveness in export markets. China's food and agricultural industry will need to address the SPS issues and make significant changes in production and distribution methods in order to gain wider access to world markets. This study provides a systematic and comprehensive analysis of current Chinese SPS conditions, the food safety regulatory system, production environment, inspection technology, and information...