The Handbook of Global Agricultural Markets
The Handbook of Global Agricultural Markets
Editor/Author
Nijs, Luc
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Ltd
Single-User Purchase Price:
$120.00

Unlimited-User Purchase Price:
$180.00
ISBN: 978-1-349-45383-2
Category: Agriculture, Aquaculture & Food Sciences
Image Count:
7
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
This book is a one-stop reference for practitioners and academics in finance, business and economics, providing a holistic reference to the international agriculture business. It takes a multidisciplinary approach, looking at the issues, opportunities and investable themes in the global agricultural space, combining research and practical tools.
Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Investible Agricultural Space
- 3 Climate Change and Agriculture
- 4 Agricultural Risk Management and (Crop) Insurance
- 5 Biofuels and Agriculture
- 6 Biofuels and the Sustainability Conundrum
- 7 Financing the Agricultural Firm
- 8 Farmland I: An Investible Asset Class?
- 9 Farmland II: Capita Selecta
- 10 Farmland III: Land-Expectation Value and Timberland Valuation
- 11 Advanced Technologies and Agriculture: Genomics, Nanotechnology, and Beyond
- 12 Challenges in Agricultural Production and Natural-Resources Management
- 13 Sustainability of Agricultural Productivity Growth
- 14 Commodities I: Derivative Markets
- 15 Commodities II: Trading Agricultural Commodities
- 16 Commodities III: Speculation on (Agricultural) Commodity Derivatives and Financialization of Commodity-Price Formation
- 17 The Global Water Challenge
- 18 Future Agricultural Dynamics