Primary Industries

Since the global financial crisis, the world has seen a stark rise in financial investment in farming and agricultural production. Indeed, finance ...

From barnyard to backyard, lowly hens have flown the country coop and joined the city chicken movement. A new generation of small-acreage farmers r...

The eighteen articles selected for this third volume of the History of the Prairie West series all focus on the agricultural history of the Canadia...

This fourth volume of the History of the Prairie West Series contains fifteen articles examining the rich history of business and early industry in...

Access to adequate food and nutrition is a fundamental human right. However, a significant population worldwide presently suffers from malnutrition...

South Pacific island nations are committed to international agreements and regional declarations to progress gender equality within their own terri...

Thirty years ago, China began implementing a series of reforms to improve efficiency in agricultural production. These, and subsequent, reforms res...

During the past decades, the performance of the agricultural sector in Africa and particularly in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has been distressing. Ra...

The federal crop insurance program began in 1938 when Congress authorized the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation. The current program, which is adm...

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) entered into force on January 1, 1994. The overall economic impact of NAFTA is difficult to measure...

This book describes and analyses competitive factors in Brazil affecting U.S. and Brazilian sales of agricultural goods, including grains, soy-bean...

In this book, the authors present current research from across the globe in the study of the quality management, issues and economic implications o...

The heightened commodity price volatility of 2008 and the subsequent acceleration in U.S. food price inflation raised concerns and generated many q...

Amid over a half a century of antagonistic political relations between the United States and Cuba during which commercial ties were largely severed...

The U.S. beef industry has recalled over 23 million pounds of beef owing to contamination from pathogenic strains of Shiga toxin-producing E.coli (...

During the past decades, the performance of the agricultural sector in Africa and particularly in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has been distressing. Ra...

The animal sector of agriculture has undergone major changes in the last several decades, a fact that has drawn the attention of policymakers and t...

Agriculture is one of the defining elements of a nation. This series consists of analyses on a variety of agricultural issues including (but not li...