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Agricultural crop issues and policies / Committee on Managing Global Genetic Resources: Agricultural Imperatives, Board on Agriculture, National Research Council.

— (Managing global genetic resources) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN Get this from a library. Agricultural crop issues and policies. [National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Managing Global Genetic Resources: Agricultural Imperatives.;] -- Genetic diversity is one of agriculture's first lines of defense against loss to biologic and environmental stresses.

Yet, the world's genetic resources are continually threatened by these stresses. : Managing Global Genetic Resources: Agricultural Crop Issues and Policies (): National Research Council, Board on Agriculture, Committee on Managing Global Genetic Resources: Agricultural Imperatives: Books.

agricultural subsidies, financial assistance to farmers through government-sponsored price-support programs. Beginning in the s most industrialized countries developed agricultural price-support policies to reduce the volatility of prices for farm products.

This book is designed for undergraduate and graduate students taking courses related to agricultural policy, agricultural economics, or rural development in developing countries. It will also be Author: Frank Ellis. Conservation Policy, the New Agriculture Extension Policy, the Research Master Plan, the HIV and AIDS Policy for the Agricultural sector, the Livestock Development Policy and the Irrigation Policy, amongst others.

In addition, the prevailing socioeconomic environment poses several challenges that. Agricultural Policy in Kenya: Issues and Processes A paper for the Future Agricultures Consortium workshop, Institute of Development Studies, March “unbalanced agriculture policies which have favoured maize production and disadvantaged the production of other crops”.

Despite this recognition, very little progress has been made to diversify agricultural spending away from its current focus on maize, a low value crop. Agricultural policies aim to address a wide range of issues, from assisting farmers to achieve adequate incomes to providing sufficient food at reasonable prices for consumers, and from improving the sector’s resilience to weather, market or other shocks to ensuring food safety and improving the environmental performance.

crops, commercialisation of smallholder agriculture, and increased value addition through stronger linkages with other sectors. In the following sections, we review some of the key policy issues and concerns with respect to the sector’s development.

Key Policy Issues Agricultural policy in Kenya revolves around the main goals of increasing. Managing Global Genetic Resources: Agricultural Crop Issues and Policies. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: / Managing Global Genetic Resources: Agricultural Crop Issues and Policies Get This Book.

The purpose of The Economics of Managing Crop Diversity On-farm: Case Studies from the Genetic Resources Policy Initiative is to assess a variety of economic issues as they relate to agricultural biodiversity and show how addressing these issues can assist in agricultural biodiversity policymaking.

How Agriculture Came to Be a Political Weapon—And What That Means for Farmers In his new book, Ted Genoways follows a family farm and the ways they’re impacted by geopolitics. Prepared under the aegis of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), this text presents a fresh and comprehensive look at agricultural development policy.

It provides a clear, systematic review of important classes of policy issues in developing countries and discusses the emerging international consensus on viable approaches to the issues.

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The contents are provided free for noncommercial purpose such as teaching, training. This book is about agricultural policies in developing countries. It concerns the methods used by governments to change the ecomonic and social framework within which agricultural production Reviews: 2.

Journal of Agricultural Policy is an internationally double blind peer reviewed journal published by CARI. The peer review publication process is fast and takes at most two weeks. The journal contains refereed papers on sustainable crop production systems, economics of crop production, agricultural development, food access, and nutrition.

This book, Special Issues in Agriculture, is part of SSPN’s contribution to the AFMA mandate. This book contains four chapters that look into four key issues that affect and remain outstanding in the agriculture sector, namely, agricultural distribution system, agricultural biotechnology, natural resource manage-ment and property rights reform.

Our crop books discuss a range of issues such as the use of pesticides, biology, breeding, disease resistance and climate change. Our environment is constantly changing and crop growers are amongst the first to see the affects on the land, types and quantities of crops produced.

The book is designed to provide empirical evidence to shed light on the complexities of agricultural and food policy in today's Ethiopia, highlight major policies and interventions of the past decade, and provide insights into building resilience to natural disasters and food crises.Botswana Agriculture Sector Policy Brief 2 Figure 2: Trends in crop productivity for traditional and commercial farming systems.

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