SIMON WARD Increment Limited and The Policy Group Simon.Ward@increment.co.uk ABSTRACT Brexit has provided impetus to discuss the UK government’s role in policy with the knowledge that a new agricultural policy will be introduced. Decisions on income support are likely...
- January 22, 2019
Holmes, S1, Heather Watson1 1Farm Management Canada (FMC) ABSTRACT The next generation are the future of farming and lifeblood of the agriculture and agri-food industry. Farm transition is arguably the most critical time in the lifecycle of the farm...
- January 22, 2019
Alison Bailey1, Jacob Kambuta1, Eva Schröer-Merker2, Thomas Perrier1, Kevin Old1 1Lincoln University 2Massey University Alison.Bailey@lincoln.ac.nz ABSTRACT The Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation System (AKIS) is a concept that describes the different organisations and individuals involved in the process of innovation...
- January 22, 2019
Shida Rastegari Henneberry 1, Riza Radmehr2 1Director of the Master of International Agriculture Program, Regents Professor of Agricultural Economics, Don & Cathey Humphreys Chair in International Studies; College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Oklahoma State University, USA 2Ph.D. Candidate of Agricultural Economics,...
- January 22, 2019
ROSALIND M GOUGH John Easterbrooke and Partners, Shaftesbury, Dorset, United Kingdom ABSTRACT This paper is a review of on-farm diversification projects as practised by family farms in the South West of England and covers just a few of the options that are...
- January 22, 2019
Jia Lei1, Morita Kiyohide2, Zhang Lixia3, Zhao Xintong4 1.3Information Research Institute of Science and Technology, Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai 201403, China; 2Department of Intercultural Communication, Komatsu University, Komatsu, Ishikawa 9230921, Japan; 4Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University,...
- January 22, 2019
Tlalang, B.E1, Yonas T. Bahta1, Willem Abraham Lombard1 1University of the Free State, Department of agricultural economics, South Africa ABSTRACT Pumpkin is a source of protein and fat and is a product of homestead gardens. The homestead food garden programme was...
- January 22, 2019
Brian H. Jacobsen1, Latacz-Lohmann2, Luesink, Harry and Michels, Rolf3, Lisa Ståhl4 1Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, brian@ifro.ku.dk 2Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Kiel, Germany 3Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands 4Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of...
- January 22, 2019
Ringetani Maltou1, Yonas T. Bahta1 1Department of Agricultural Economics, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa Bahtay@ufs.ac.za/Yonas204@yahoo.com ABSTRACT Recurring drought is a major challenge to smaller holder livestock farmers. This study estimates agricultural drought resilience of smallholder livestock farms...
- January 22, 2019
Mr Guido van der Hoeven, Mr J.C. Hobbs Nc State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States Abstract This paper discusses and illustrates potential financial risk exposure farmers and ranchers may have as...
- January 22, 2019
