促进中部地区发展的财税政策

由于种种原因,中部地区经济发展相对缓慢。而中部地区经济的崛起对于我国国民缉济协调、可持续发展来说,有着重要的战略意义。文章分析了中部六省资源优势和经济发展现状及当前财税政策对中部地区的制约因素,提出发展中部经济发展的路径,建议采取政策倾斜、改革现行增值税、资源税等政策手段刺激中部地区的发展。     

我国农业大中型沼气工程发展现状、 存在问题与对策措施

该文分析了我国处理农业废弃物大中型沼气工程建设数量、产气量、区域分布及沼气工艺类型等方面的发展现状,总结了我国沼气工程发展中存在的主要问题,提出了加快我国大中型沼气工程发展的对策措施。     

提高农业资源利用效率促进现代农业发展

农业资源利用效率直接影响着现代农业发展水平,高效合理地利用农业资源是现代农业发展的重要目标。该文在肯定我国现代农业发展取得举世瞩目成就的同时,从资源供需、资源利用效率及资源持续利用等方面指出了我国现代农业发展中存在的问题,并对如何更好地发挥中国农业资源与区划学会在提高农业资源利用效率、促进现代农业发展中的作用提出了建议。     

节水农业关键技术发展趋势及国内外差异分析

该文通过对国内外节水农业现状及发展趋势分析指出,现代节水农业技术是以节水、高效、安全、改善生态环境与可持续发展为目标,在传统的节水农业技术中融入了生物、计算机模拟、电子信息、高分子材料等一系列高新技术,具有多学科相互交叉、各种单项技术互相渗透的明显特征.该文从灌溉节水技术、节水种植制度、覆盖农业节水技术、抗旱节水作物品种的选育、节水制剂与材料、水肥信息采集技术与预警系统等方面分析了国内外存在的差异.我国节水农业已开展了一系列的技术创新与应用研究,取得了瞩目的成就,但与节水技术先进国家相比仍然存在较大差距.     

把农业资源调查和农业区划推向新阶段

该文结合部分省市更新农业资源调查和农业区划的要求,从市场经济、农业经济新阶段、农业经济新时期（工业化中期）与农业区划3阶段论述了新时期农业区划的特点,提出传统农业区划改进型、农村经济区划、农村发展区划的设想。     

漳州市农业资源可持续高效利用开发模式

随着漳州市农业的纵深发展,人口与资源的矛盾日趋尖锐,为缓解人多地少的矛盾和压力,解决农业可持续发展的问题,文章提出适合漳州地区推广的6种农业资源可持续高效利用开发模式。     

相互制保险在我国农业保险中的适用性分析

相互制保险公司是保险企业的主流组织形式之一,在国际保险市场上占有重要地位.分析了相互制保险的独特优势,并结合我国农业保险发展的实际情况,对相互制保险在我国农业保险发展中的适用性进行了深入的探讨.     

How and why large scale agricultural land investments do not create long-term employment benefits: A critique of the ‘state’ of labour regulations in Ghana

Support for large scale agricultural investments in Africa has been mainly premised on their employment prospects for local populations. However, despite earlier calls by Tania Li to centre labour in the land grabs debate, labour is generally invisible in both mainstream policy and academic research. This paper, through a governance lens, draws attention to the implications of the global land rush on wage labour. In principle, policy frameworks that emphasise the labour potentials from large-scale land investments also gravitate towards regulations that seek to facilitate capital accumulation and mitigate negative impacts on communities – congruent with Ghana’s policy direction. This paper assesses the political-economic context of the legislative gaps in the current governance framework for wage labour and large-scale agriculture in Ghana; characterised mainly by absent, illusively present and repressive institutions. It is supported with empirical findings from the nature of farm workers’ incorporation into a transnational oil palm plantation in Ghana, their struggles over the nature of the investment, and the political orientation of the existing regulatory institutions. The study calls for policy measures which address power relations that shape the distribution of benefits from land investments, and also recognise structural inequalities that exist in and outside of agriculture.     

Public preferences for post 2020 agri-environmental policy in the Czech Republic: A choice experiment approach

In November 2017 European Union commission presented a communication report summarizing the reform proposal of the post 2020 Common Agriculture Policy (CAP). The reform aims to address the environmental degradation associated with agricultural production as well as change in the structure of CAP payments. To this end, the Ministry of Agriculture in Czech Republic is preparing to set its priorities towards CAP’s reform. In this study we applied a choice experiment to investigate the public preferences for a set of environmental goods and services delivered by agri-environment-climatic voluntary measures (AECMs). A mixed logit model is employed to elicit preferences and explore their heterogeneity. We find that respondents oppose strongly funding removal. Among environmental attributes, water and food quality are the ones with the highest implicit marginal willingness-to-pay values. Preferences for no funding option are heterogeneous with socio-demographic and attitudinal variables explaining some sources of this heterogeneity. A continuation of national funding for the AECMs is expected to lead to a better state of environment with an anticipated positive welfare change of 669–932 mil EUR as opposed to funding removal. The change reflects the estimated welfare change resulting from moving from a low to a medium or to a high preservation state of agri-environmental attributes. We also project the budget change for AECMs considering the level of national funding and given the transfer share between Pillar I and II. Based on our results, we suggest that national funding can be informed by the welfare change scenarios and transfer shares are projected accordingly.     

Determinants of Visitors’ Intentions to Consume and Recommend Local Agro-Food Products

Previous research has revealed the relevance of consuming local food products in the visitor experience and in maintaining the sustainable development of tourism destinations. By reviewing the available studies in the field of tourism, attempts have been made to identify those factors influencing the consumption of local food products during a trip. However, few studies have analysed visitors’ behaviour in terms of their intentions to search for and recommend these products after returning to their home countries. The present study addresses this gap by analysing the factors that influence visitors’ intentions. A total of 500 international tourists in Portugal were interviewed and several linear regression models were used. The evaluation shows that the attributes of local agro-food products, food-related personality traits, and the motivations behind consuming these kinds of products emerge as the most important factors that influence visitors’ intentions to consume these products and to recommend them after a trip. However, the results also show differences in the determinants in terms of type of local agro-food product under analysis, as well as differences between the intention to consume and the intention to recommend. The theoretical and managerial implications of the findings are also presented.