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This glossary of agriculture is a list of definitions of terms and concepts used in agriculture, its sub-disciplines, and related fields, ... agricultural economics
Because agriculture is a large part of most developing economies, both in terms of employment and share of GDP, agricultural economists have been at the forefront of empirical research on development economics, contributing to our understanding of agriculture's role in economic development, economic growth and structural transformation.
The National Agricultural Library Thesaurus Concept Space (abbreviated NALT) is a controlled vocabulary of terms related to agricultural, biological, physical and social sciences. [1] NALT is used by the National Agricultural Library (NAL) to annotate peer reviewed journal articles for NAL’s bibliographic citation database, AGRICOLA , PubAg ...
Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. [1] Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to live in the cities. While humans started gathering grains at least ...
Also called resource cost advantage. The ability of a party (whether an individual, firm, or country) to produce a greater quantity of a good, product, or service than competitors using the same amount of resources. absorption The total demand for all final marketed goods and services by all economic agents resident in an economy, regardless of the origin of the goods and services themselves ...
Agricultural science – broad multidisciplinary field that encompasses the parts of exact, natural, economic and social sciences that are used in the practice and understanding of agriculture. Agricultural economics – originally applied the principles of economics to the production of crops and livestock – a discipline known as agronomics ...
Rural economics is the study of rural economies. Rural economies include both agricultural and non-agricultural industries, so rural economics has broader concerns than agricultural economics which focus more on food systems. [1] Rural development [2] and finance [3] attempt to solve larger challenges within rural economics.
Agreement on Agriculture; Agribusiness; Agricultural Act of 2014; Agricultural & Applied Economics Association; Agricultural and Rural Convention 2020; Agricultural attaché; Agricultural policy; Agricultural production; Agricultural value chain; AgroEurasia; Alimenta; American Journal of Agricultural Economics; Applied Economic Perspectives ...