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Agribusiness and Rural Development

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Agriculture".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2024) | Viewed by 2566

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Chanjin Chung

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Guest Editor
Department of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA
Interests: agricultural marketing; applied econometrics; industrial organization; consumer economics
Dr. Amy D. Hagerman

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Department of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA
Interests: agricultural policy; animal health; One Health; disaster preparedness and response

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We are inviting article submissions to a Special Issue of Sustainability on “Agribusiness and Rural Development”. Sustainability is a peer-reviewed and open access journal of environmental, cultural, economic and social sustainability of human beings. The purpose of this Special Issue is to enhance scholarly communication on agribusiness and rural development. Lately, agribusinesses and rural communities are facing significant challenges from consistent pressure from regional and international competition, volatile prices of agricultural products, reduction in usable land for farming, change in consumer tastes, the need to adopt and learn new technologies, climate change, soil erosion, labor shortages, demographic changes, and inequalities in income, health, and infrastructure between rural and urban areas, to name a few. Most recently, developing countries and low-income communities have been disproportionately impacted by climate change and COVID-19.

We invite contributions in the form of academic papers (research papers, reviews, and case studies) that investigate, but are not limited to, the following aspects of agribusiness and rural development:

  • Conceptualization of agribusiness, agricultural economics, sustainable agriculture, and rural development;
  • Socioeconomic analysis of global disruptors (e.g., COVID-19 and climate change effects) on agribusiness, rural development, environment, and sustainable agriculture;
  • Food chain analysis, i.e., production, processing, and distribution, and links to rural development;
  • New technology adoption (e.g., new variety, new machinery, and internet service) and its links to rural development;
  • Domestic and international trade of agricultural goods;
  • Policy analysis related to agriculture, environment, and rural development;
  • Migrant workers, immigration policies, and national and regional economies;
  • Analysis of change in consumer preference on agricultural and food products;
  • Family farming vs. corporate farming.

Prof. Dr. Chanjin Chung
Dr. Amy D. Hagerman
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • agribusiness
  • rural development
  • agricultural economics
  • sustainability
  • food system
  • agricultural production
  • marketing
  • international trade
  • agricultural policy
  • resource and environmental economics

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A Lower Threat than I Thought: How the Analysis of the Interdependence between Risks Influences Smallholder Farmers’ Perceptions
by Nuru Kipato, Peter Dorward and Graham Clarkson
Sustainability 2023, 15(19), 14467; https://doi.org/10.3390/su151914467 - 04 Oct 2023
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Smallholder farming businesses are exposed to numerous risks which significantly affect productivity, income, and farmers’ livelihoods. These risks are interdependent in nature and co-occur, which makes managing a single risk in isolation an inadequate approach. This study examined how the analysis of the [...] Read more.
Smallholder farming businesses are exposed to numerous risks which significantly affect productivity, income, and farmers’ livelihoods. These risks are interdependent in nature and co-occur, which makes managing a single risk in isolation an inadequate approach. This study examined how the analysis of the interdependence between risks can influence farmers’ perceptions of risk. The study employed focus group discussions and participatory activities, which involved the use of Scored Causal Diagrams (SCDs) to analyse risks with farmers and assess changes in perception. The results showed that the analysis of the interdependence between risks influenced a change in perceptions of risk for farmers, by enabling farmers to identify the important risks, cause-and-effect relationships between risks, and the root causes of risks. This also led to changes in the farmers’ own perceived ability to manage these risks. The analysis of the interdependence between risks provides insight into the design of holistic approaches for the management of risks. It enables farmers to identify the cause-and-effect relationships between risks, identify risks which contribute substantially to hindering their farming goals, and identify entry points for managing multiple interdependent risks. A unique contribution of this study is it presents a process for eliciting and analysing farmers’ perceptions of the interdependence between risks and explores how such analysis contributes to changes in farmers’ perceptions of individual risks. These changes in perceptions of individual risks ultimately shape farmers’ decisions about whether and how to adapt risk-management behaviour. Full article
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Analysis of Agri-Environmental Management Practices and Their Implementation in the Agricultural Policies of the Republic of Serbia
by Jelena Vapa Tankosić, Radivoj Prodanović and Vladimir Medović
Sustainability 2023, 15(16), 12476; https://doi.org/10.3390/su151612476 - 16 Aug 2023
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The subject of the research is focused on the application of agri-environmental management practices in the agricultural policies of the Republic of Serbia. The research, in the first part, addresses the current attitudes of the policymakers in the sector for agricultural policy, sector [...] Read more.
The subject of the research is focused on the application of agri-environmental management practices in the agricultural policies of the Republic of Serbia. The research, in the first part, addresses the current attitudes of the policymakers in the sector for agricultural policy, sector for rural development, and the department for the IPARD of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management, regarding the introduction of agri-ecological measures. In the second part, the current attitudes of the agricultural producers and agricultural advisory employees regarding the main economic and structural factors, as determinants of the adoption of agri-environmental management practices, are analyzed. The findings show that the policymakers have put in place an adequate framework, providing the training and education for the introduction of future AE measures. The findings show that the agricultural producers and the agricultural advisory employees consider agri-ecological measures to be a good way to improve the state of the environment and promote the diversity of nature and organisms. The producers have shown a high willingness to adopt the agri-ecological measures. For them, the highest motivation for using the agri-ecological measures is agriculture-oriented training and education, while the potential obstacles are the complexity of measures, implementation of measures, property rights, purpose of land use, and full-time farm workers. The farmers that perceived that the agri-ecological measures treat all farmers equally contributed the most to predicting the willingness of the agricultural producers to adopt agri-ecological measures. On the other hand, the agricultural advisory service employees perceived as the highest motivations the responsibility of farmers towards future generations, previous experience in the application of similar measures, and agriculture-oriented training and education, while the size of agricultural holdings and the property rights were seen as the largest obstacles. The proposed research on the agri-environmental management practices is particularly relevant in the context of discussions on the reform of the Serbian agricultural policy in light of the EU accession process. The findings of the research shall directly contribute to raising knowledge on the agri-environmental management practices in the Republic of Serbia. Full article
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