Index

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(2024), "Index", Das, R.C. (Ed.) Sustainable Agricultural Practices: Economic and Environmental Implications, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 251-260. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83608-336-820241017

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INDEX

Adaptation studies

, 155

AGMARKNET portal

, 52

Agricultural activity

, 95

Agricultural commodities

, 44

data and methodology

, 49–50

intrastate variation in real prices

, 51

literature review

, 44–49

price volatility by GARCH model

, 50–51

results

, 51–53

testing of stationarity

, 50

Agricultural credit

, 61

(see also Institutional credit)

Agricultural credit facility (ACF)

, 173

Agricultural development

, 12, 94, 118

Agricultural economic globalization

, 60

Agricultural Economics

, 4

Agricultural exports

, 13, 60

Agricultural growth

, 12, 132, 193

Agricultural income (AI)

, 165

Agricultural markets in India

, 46

Agricultural output (AO)

, 100

Agricultural policies

, 212–213

Agricultural practices

, 4, 162

Agricultural prices

, 44

Agricultural processes

, 94

Agricultural production

, 7

extant literature

, 194–196

methodology

, 196–199

recommendations

, 205–206

results

, 199–204

Agricultural productivity

, 227

growth in

, 135

Agricultural scheme in Nigeria

, 60

Agricultural Science

, 4

Agricultural sector

, 58, 192

dynamics of comparative advantage and export performance

, 139–142

productivity

, 148

Agricultural sustainability

importance of

, 165–166

study

, 164

Agricultural sustainability index (ASI)

, 164

construction of

, 167–171

methodology of development

, 171–173

across states in India

, 174–175

Agricultural trade liberalization

, 47

Agricultural training

, 171

Agricultural transformation

, 194

Agriculture

, 6, 58, 61, 12, 163, 178, 181, 194

Agriculture 4.0

, 215

Agriculture-Fishery valuation

independent variables used for valuation of agriculture

, 33–34

methodology and results

, 31–40

regression results of open-ended referendum

, 36

results of logit model and open-ended referendum

, 38

Agro-ecology

, 164

Agroforestry

, 119

Alpaca Grow

, 85

Alpaca Island Company of Martha’s Vineyard

, 85

Amalgamation of pollutants

, 4

Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP)

, 6, 116

demographics of respondents from rice smallholder farmers

, 122

import substitution and rice production in Ebonyi State

, 124–125

literature review

, 117–119

methodology

, 121

modern farming technique and rice production in Ebonyi State

, 125

results and analysis

, 121–124

test of hypotheses

, 123

theoretical framework

, 120

Aquaculture subsector

, 192

Arable land

, 195

ARCH

, 51

Architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry

, 211

objective of study

, 211–212

recommendations for enhancing contribution

, 212–219

Architecture, engineering and construction industry professionals (AEC industry professionals)

, 7

Area instability of wheat

, 17

Arellano-Bond regression

, 60

Attitudes

, 80

Augmented Dickey–Fuller (ADF) test

, 50, 52, 184

Augmented Dickey−Fuller t statistics

, 199

Autocorrelation LM test

, 68

Autoregressive (AR) roots

, 67

Autoregressive distributed lag model (ARDL)

, 61, 180–181

Balassa’s indices

, 15

Bangladesh

environmental health and moral responsibilities

, 244–246

Feed the Future programmes

, 247

food security and safety

, 246–247

food security in

, 239–242

perspectives on sustainable agriculture

, 242–244

vulnerability

, 8, 239

Bangladesh Food Safety Authority

, 246

Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC)

, 5, 12

change in cropping pattern in India

, 15–17

data sources and methodology

, 13–15

instability of area, production and yield

, 17–24

objectives

, 13

policy implications

, 24–25

result

, 15–24

Between dimension (see Group tests)

Bijamrita

, 136

Bio organic fertilizers in México

, 81–82

BIO-FOM

, 82–84

Biodiversity conservation

, 119

Biodiversity loss

, 163

Biofertilizers

, 76

Block Exogeneity Wald test

, 66

Bottom trawling

, 37

Camelot Haven Alpacas

, 86

Carbon capture technology

, 150

Carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions

, 7, 61, 150, 178–179, 183, 195

Carbon emissions

, 151–152

Carbon sequestration

, 119, 163

Causality test

, 64

Cement industry

, 150

Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)

, 116

Cereals cropping

, 13

Change in productivity

, 13

Chemical fertilizer use intensity (CFI)

, 172

Chemical fertilizers

, 76, 132

Cholesky decomposition of covariance (Lütkepohl) orthogonalization method

, 68

Circular bio-economy and practices

, 167

Climate change

, 28–29, 148, 163, 179, 210

adaptation policies

, 4

Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)

, 136

Climate-smart village (CSV) approach

, 136

Close-ended models

, 35

Close-ended referendum

, 35

Close-ended single-bounded dichotomous choice model

, 31

Co-operatives

, 62

Cobb Douglas production function

, 59, 227

Cobb–Douglas stochastic frontier production analysis approach

, 228

Coefficient of variation (CV)

, 5, 45

Cointegration

analysis

, 184–185

results

, 103, 186–187

tests

, 62–63, 184

Commodities

, 44

Community Managed Sustainable Agriculture (CMSA)

, 133

Composite error model

, 229

Composite index

, 165

Comprehensive entrepreneurship model of green business innovation

, 79–80

Conservation agriculture

, 119, 164

Consumer Price Index-Combined (CPI-C)

, 48

Contingent valuation method (CVM)

, 29, 31

Convergence

, 195

effect of agricultural production

, 199–203

rate

, 197

Coppock’s instability index (CII)

, 14, 49–50

Correlation results

, 100–103

Cosoleacaque Petrochemical Complex plants

, 76

Cotton

, 45

Counterfactual reproduction tests

, 46

Credit in agricultural production in India

, 60

Credit policies and institutions

, 59

Crop area elasticity value

, 15

Crop intensity

, 171

Crop production

, 7, 179, 194

Crop production index

, 183–184

Crop selection

, 94

Crop-cutting experiments (CCEs)

, 136

Cropping intensity (CI)

, 165

Cropping pattern of cereal cropping

, 14

change in cropping pattern in India

, 15–17

Crops subsector

, 192

Cuddy-Della Valle index

, 45, 49

Cultural services

, 162

Currency rates

, 60

Cyclone Sidr

, 246

Data envelopment analysis (DEA)

, 226

Data source

, 196–197

Database on Indian Economy (DBIE)

, 61

Decision-making

, 153

Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL)

, 153

analysis

, 7

application

, 154–155

literature review

, 150–152

method

, 153–154

Decomposition analysis

, 45

Deforestation

, 163

Descriptive statistics

, 98–100

Developed countries (DCs)

, 6, 96, 133

Developing countries

, 94, 133, 194

Diammonium phosphate (DAP)

, 79

Diamond model

, 81

Direct institutional credit to agriculture

, 62

Dual dice-throwing process

, 31, 37

Durbin-Watson (DW) statistics

, 67

Dynamic panel

, 199

Ebonyi State

, 116–117

Eco-efficiency

, 76–77

Ecological farming

, 135

Ecological security patterns

, 215

Econometric analysis methods

, 151

Econometric model

, 62–64

Economic development

, 61

Economic globalization (EG)

, 60

Economic growth

, 59, 80, 96, 238, 240

from American agriculture

, 59

Economic inefficiency effect model

, 225–226

Economic liberalization

, 132

Economic policies

, 59

Economic sustainability index (ECSI)

, 172

Economic-environmental performance of crop production

, 196

Ecosystem

, 148

services

, 162

Effective regulations and auditing

, 154

Electrical energy

, 149

Empirical model

, 197–199, 229–230

Empirical studies

, 180

Energy

, 178

consumption

, 61

efficiency

, 151–152

Engle-Granger Cointegration test

, 63

Entrepreneurial activities

, 80

Entrepreneurial intentions

, 80

Entrepreneurial models

, 80

Entrepreneurial opportunities

, 80

Entrepreneurship

, 6, 80

Environmental health

, 244–246

Environmental Kuznets Curve concept

, 60

Environmental pollution

, 148, 151

Environmental quality

, 179

Environmental Science

, 4

Environmental sustainability

, 179, 195–196

(see also Agricultural sustainability)

effect of agricultural production on

, 203–204

Environmental sustainability index (ESI)

, 172

Equitable distribution

, 238

Estimation of instability index

, 49

Expansionary effect

, 14

Expert architects

, 218

Export and import

, 13–14

Face to face interview process

, 31

Family farming

, 95

Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs)

, 25

Federal Government’s ABP

, 118

Fertilizers

, 45, 76

bargaining power with buyers

, 87

challenges and opportunities

, 79–80, 89

considerations based on institutions

, 88–89

considerations based on resources and capabilities

, 87–88

data analysis

, 81–82

demand in Mexico

, 77–79

empirical results

, 84–89

entry barriers

, 86

exports and imports

, 78–79

GIB

, 82–84

industry-based considerations

, 84

instrument and procedures

, 81

market

, 79

methodology of research

, 81

problem and assumption

, 81

production

, 77–78

rivalry between companies

, 84–86

substitute products or services

, 86–87

theoretical and conceptual framework

, 82

use

, 163

Fish farmers, socio-economic features of

, 230

Fish farming

, 224

Fisher-type unit-root test

, 199

Fisheries

, 192

Fishery dependency

, 37

Fishery management

, 224

Fitted quadratic trend model

, 49

Fixed and variable inputs

, 120

Flood

, 29

Food

, 238

insecurity

, 238

loss

, 94–95

price stability

, 238

safety

, 238

wastage

, 94, 96

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

, 13, 94, 195, 242

Food for Work (FFW) programme

, 241–242

Food grain productivity (FP)

, 171

Food security

, 116, 171, 210, 224, 238

in Bangladesh

, 239–242

challenges

, 211–212

marco dimensions

, 238

Food waste

, 6, 94

cointegration test results

, 103

comparison between PCAGDP and PCFW

, 98

comparison Between PCGDP and PCFW

, 99–100

correlation results

, 100–103

data and methodology

, 97–98

descriptive statistics

, 98–100

literature review

, 96–97

research gaps

, 97

results

, 98–109

results of short-run causality through Wald test

, 109

stationarity test results

, 103

VECM results

, 109

Foreign debt stocks

, 60

Forest coverage (FC)

, 165

Forestry subsector

, 192

Forests

, 171, 192

Fossil fuel consumption

, 150

Frontier production function

, 224

Fully modified ordinary least squares-dynamic ordinary least squares (FMOLS-DOLS)

, 180

Futures trading

, 46

Generalised method of moments (GMM) estimator

, 198–199

Generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH)

, 46

Genetic engineering

, 119

Geothermal energy

, 149

Global warming

, 148

Globalization

, 46

Governments

, 179

price policy

, 47

Grain dust

, 149

Granger causality

analysis

, 151

test

, 181

Granger Cointegration test

, 62

Green business innovation, comprehensive entrepreneurship model of

, 79–80

Green innovation business (GIB)

, 6, 82–84

Green innovation in urban areas

, 81

Green Revolution Model

, 4, 132

Greenhouse effect

, 148–149

Greenhouse gases (GHGs)

, 181

emissions

, 179

global and regional trend

, 182

Gross domestic product (GDP)

, 4, 241

Gross value-added (GVA)

, 5–6, 62

Groundnuts

, 45

Group ADF-statistics

, 185

Group PP-statistics

, 185

Group tests

, 184–185

Group-rho

, 185

Growth rate of cropped area, production and productivity

, 14

Half-life cycle of convergence

, 197–198

Healthy agricultural outputs

, 210

Homoscedasticity test

, 68

hypothesis for residual heteroskedasticity tests

, 69

Household-level calorie adequacy indicator

, 238

Human resource

, 45

Hunger

, 96, 116

Hydroelectric energy

, 149

‘Hydroponics’ role in food security

, 212

Illegal bottom trawling

, 5

Illegal fishing

, 37

Im, Pesaran, and Shin (IPS) test

, 184, 199

Import substitution and rice production in Ebonyi State

, 124–125

Impulse variance function

, 69–70

Income convergence

, 193

Incremental innovation

, 137

Indian agriculture

, 134–135

Indian Sundarbans

, 28–29

resources in

, 30

Indirect agricultural credit accounts

, 60

Individual subjective norms

, 80

Infant mortality rate (IMR)

, 165, 172

Inland fisheries

, 226

Inorganic farming

, 138

Input substitution

, 94

Instability of area, production and yield

, 17–24

Institutional credit

, 58, 171

analysis of findings

, 64–65

data source

, 61–62

econometric model

, 62–64

limitations and future scope of study

, 73

literature review

, 59–61

model diagnostics

, 67–70

objective of study

, 61

Pairwise Granger Causality Test

, 66–67

policy recommendations

, 72–73

studies related to domestic aspects

, 60–61

studies-related foreign aspects

, 59–60

VAR Granger Causality/Block Exogeneity Wald test

, 66

variance decomposition analysis

, 70–71

Institutional financial support

, 58

Insured area (IA)

, 165

Integral model

, 81

Integrated pest management (IPM)

, 119

Interdisciplinary collaboration

, 215

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

, 155

International trade

, 46

on food items

, 95

Internationalization

, 6

Intra-year price instability

, 48

Intrastate variation

, 51

Irrigation

, 45

water

, 96

Isolated Wood Farm

, 85

Jiwamrita

, 136

Johansen cointegration

analysis

, 47

technique

, 98

test

, 62–63, 181

KLEMS database

, 61

Labour productivity

, 59

Lagged difference terms

, 50

Law of diminishing marginal returns

, 120

Legal regulations

, 151

Less developed countries (LDCs)

, 6, 133

dynamics of comparative advantage and export performance of agricultural sector

, 139–142

literature review

, 133–137

simple theoretical model on zero-budget-natural farming

, 137–139

Level of education (LE)

, 171

Levin, Lin, and Chu (LLC) test

, 184

Linear regression analysis

, 123

Livelihoods

, 240

Livestock production

, 7, 178–179, 184

Livestock sector

, 194

Livestock subsector

, 192

Log real prices

, 52

Log-odds ratio

, 33, 37

Maize

, 13

Mark-ups

, 48

Market

, 77

of fertilizers in México

, 6

Maximum likelihood (ML)

, 224

Maximum likelihood estimates (MLE)

, 230

Mechanization

, 59, 118–119

Methane emissions

, 4

Mexican government’s National Fertiliser Programme

, 76

Millet

, 13

Modern farming techniques

and promotion of rice production in Ebonyi State

, 118–119

and rice production in Ebonyi State

, 125

Moral responsibilities

, 244–246

Mulching

, 136

Multicollinearity test

, 69

National Agricultural Survey (ENA)

, 82

National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD)

, 58

National Biofertilizer Program

, 76

National fertilizers

, 76

National Parliament of Bangladesh

, 246

National technology system

, 193

National trade

, 46

Natural disasters

, 94

Natural farming

, 136

Natural resource management (NRM)

, 134–135

Natural resources

, 28

rents

, 60

Necessary condition analysis

, 196

Neoclassical growth models

, 195

Neoclassical theory

, 193

New technology strategy

, 132

Nigeria

, 116

Non-conventional agricultural practices

, 166

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs)

, 127, 246

Non-Pesticide Management

, 133

Non-renewable energy sources

, 178

Non-stationary test

, 50

Non-timber forest products (NTFPs)

, 28

Normality test

, 68

hypothesis for normality test of residual

, 68

Nuclear energy

, 151

Nutshells

, 149

Open market sales (OMSs)

, 241

Open-ended models

, 35

Open-ended referendum

, 35

Ordinary least square (OLS) method

, 35

Organic farming (OF)

, 138, 164

Organic fertilizers

, 81–82

Output market targeting

, 94

PacaProGro

, 85

Pairwise Granger Causality Test

, 66–67

Pajaritos plant

, 76

Panel ADF-statistic

, 184

Panel cointegration analysis

, 151

Panel cointegration tests

literature review

, 179–182

materials and method

, 183–184

methods

, 184–185

results

, 185–187

Panel PP-statistic

, 184

Panel tests

, 184

Panel unit root tests

, 187

Panel-rho

, 184

Panel-v

, 184

Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient

, 123

Pedroni’s cointegration test

, 186–187

Pemex Law

, 77

Per capita agricultural GDP (PCAGDP)

, 97–98

Per capita food waste (PCFW)

, 97–98

Per capita GDP (PCGDP)

, 97–98

Perfect competition

, 120

Pesticide use

, 163

Phillips–Perron t statistics

, 199

Policy Research and Strategy Support Program for Food Security and Agricultural Development in Bangladesh

, 247

Policymakers

, 179

Pollution

, 148

Pond fishery

, 225

Post-harvest losses

, 97

Poverty alleviation

, 224

Precision agriculture

, 118–119

Price instability

, 48–49

Price seasonality

, 48–49

Price volatility

of agricultural commodities and food

, 45–46

by GARCH model

, 50–51

Principal component

, 173

Principal component analysis (PCA)

, 165

Problem-solving

, 153

Production analysis

, 230–232

Production theory

, 120

Productivity

, 5

Protest bidders

, 32, 37

Provisioning services

, 162

Public health

, 238

Pure Economics

, 4

R-squared values

, 67

Radical innovation

, 137

Rainfall

, 45

Rationality

, 120

Real WTP

, 35

Regional rural banks (RRBs)

, 58

Regulating services

, 162

Renewable energy

, 148–149, 151, 181

Reserve Bank of India (RBI)

, 61

Residual test

, 67–68

Resource depletion

, 164

Revealed comparative advantage (RCA)

, 15

Rice

, 13

Rice cultivation

, 118

Rice production

, 116

in Ebonyi State, Nigeria

, 117–118

in Nigeria

, 6

Risk and exploitation by money lenders

, 60

RRBs

, 62

Rural development

, 12

Rural farming

, 211

Rural indebtedness

, 60

Rural planning

, 211

Samuelson Cobweb Model

, 46

Sanitary and phytosanitary measures (SPS measures)

, 133

Scheduled Commercial Banks

, 62

Scotts Miracle-Gro Company

, 85

‘Seed-fertilizer-water’ package

, 132

Sex ratio (SR)

, 165

Skyscraper crop factory

, 212

Small pond fishery

, 7–8

Social sustainability index (SSI)

, 172

Soil conservation

, 119

Soil erosion

, 164

Solar energy

, 149

Sorghum

, 45

Stationarity

, 62

Stationarity test, results of

, 103, 185–186

Stationary test

, 184

Steady-state equilibrium

, 195

Stochastic frontier production function

, 229

Stochastic frontier regression (SFR)

, 224

empirical model

, 229–230

empirical results and analysis

, 230–233

materials and methods

, 228–229

policy implications

, 233–234

review of literature

, 225–228

theoretical framework

, 229

Storage

, 46

Strategic planning

, 153, 239

Stratified random sampling

, 36

Subjective norms

, 80

Substitution effect

, 14, 17

Sugarcane crop

, 192

Supporting services

, 162

Sustainability

, 4, 162, 225

Sustainable agriculture (SA)

, 7, 162, 164

construction of agricultural sustainability index

, 167–171

dimensions

, 166–167

methodology of development of agricultural sustainability index

, 171–173

negative outlooks

, 163–164

objectives of study

, 165

perspectives on

, 242–244

positive outlooks

, 162–163

practices

, 211

results

, 174–175

review of literature

, 164–165

source of data

, 165–166

technologies

, 134–135

Sustainable awareness

, 34

SWOT analysis

, 89

Technical efficiency (TE)

, 224, 228

arrangement of farms (or fishermen) based on technical efficiency levels

, 233

factors contributing to technical inefficiency in fish production

, 232

of small pond fishery

, 7–8

Technical inefficiency model

, 230

Technological changes

, 59

Technological efficiency

, 120

Testing of stationarity

, 50

Text Relief programme

, 241

Theory of planned behaviour

, 80

Three-stage sampling technique

, 227–228

Tobit model analysis

, 60

Trade

, 12

liberalization

, 46, 134

openness in India

, 61

Trading

, 12

Traditional exports

, 133

Training

, 152

Training facility (TF)

, 171

Translog stochastic frontier cost function

, 225

Transportation services

, 7, 45, 179, 184

True WTP

, 35

Two-stage least squares (2SLS)

, 198

UN ‘Zero lost or waste of food’

, 96

Unit root test

, 50, 199

United Nations (UN)

, 246

United States of America (USA)

, 151

Univariate GARCH (1,1) model

, 52

Unwilling bidders

, 37

Urban agriculture

, 211–212

Urban farming

, 215

Urban planning

, 218

Urbanization

, 211–212

Valuation of agriculture

, 31–36

Value-added rates

, 60

Variables

, 196–197

Variance decomposition analysis

, 70–71

Variance inflationary factor (VIF)

, 35

Vector autoregression model (VAR model)

, 63–64, 98

Granger Causality test

, 66

hypothesis for VAR residual serial correlation LM tests

, 68

Vector error correction model (VECM)

, 180

Volatility

, 44

Vulnerability of agriculture-based livelihoods

, 4

Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF) programme

, 241

Waaphasa

, 136

Wald coefficient test

, 67

hypothesis for

, 67–68

Water use

, 163

Wheat

, 13, 45

Wheat straw

, 149

Wicked problem

, 96

Willingness to pay (WTP)

, 32

Within dimension (see Panel tests)

World Bank

, 94, 247

World Development Indicator (WDI)

, 196–197

World Food Programme (WFP)

, 241

X-culture

, 88

Zero budgeting

, 8

Zero-budget natural farming (ZBNF) model

, 132–133, 136–137

simple theoretical model on

, 137–139

Zones of cyclogenesis

, 29