Browsing Auburn Theses and Dissertations by Department "Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology"
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Essays on the Profitability of Winter Farming Enterprises
(2010-12-08)
Cover crops can boost soil productivity as they increase soil organic carbon levels, improve water infiltration and reduce soil erosion. In addition to the agronomic and environmental benefits, they can also provide ...
Essays on Using Experimental Agronomic Data to Solve Practical Cropping Decision Problems
(2014-05-01)
Across the United States, agronomic research is being conducted that provides agricultural producers with new cropping options; however, without having insight into the profitability or risk associated with the options, ...
Evaluating Access Barriers To Primary Health Care Services For Hispanic Residents in Toombs County, Georgia
(2007-05-15)
Latinos are no longer concentrated in “traditional” cities and states, like Los Angeles, Florida, and Texas, and the rural Latino population is rapidly increasing in number throughout many regions of the nation, mostly in ...
Evaluating the Competitiveness of US Agricultural Market Commodities
(2007-08-15)
This dissertation is organized into three different topics in the field of international trade and economics that look at the competitiveness of US agricultural export commodities using different economic models and ...
Examining the Role of U.S. Agricultural Policy on Chapter 12 Bankruptcy Filings and Active Cases
(2022-05-01)
Farm bankruptcy enables eligible farmers the opportunity to reorganize debts while remaining operational. Providing safety nets for farmers is a long-standing U.S. agricultural policy that has recently reached historic ...
Extension Support for Cassava (Manihot esculenta) Production and Processing in Nigeria: Impact on Farm Practice Adoption
(2021-04-22)
Many factors have been found to affect farmers’ adoption of new technologies by different authors, which include farmers’ interaction with extension services and socio-economic characteristics of farmers. This study ...
Factors Affecting Markets, Economic Growth and Economic Development: Three Essays in Applied Economics
(2016-08-01)
Abstract
This dissertation consists of three essays. The topics of the essays are not necessary related, and each essay constitutes a chapter in this dissertation. The first chapter presents farm and retail models ...
Farm Investment and Off-Farm Income - A Study of Farms in Alabama
(2006-12-15)
This thesis examines the effect of availability of internal finance, net farm income, and net off-farm household income on farm investment. It presents a detailed review of previous studies, develops and estimates an ...
Farmer Mental Health and Rural Stressors
(2022-07-18)
Agriculture has recently suffered from low commodity prices, natural disasters (e.g. droughts and hurricanes), and supply chain disruptions due to COVID-19. These factors influence the physical and mental health of farmers ...
Financial Derivatives and Bank Performance
(2013-07-19)
Recent financial regulation changes have brought many challenges to community banks. In particular, the Volcker Rule, section 619 of the Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Act of 2010, prohibits banks from engaging in proprietary ...
Food Demand, Food Sensory Preferences and Attributes Explaining Food Price Differences
(2016-12-12)
This dissertation evaluates staple food demand in Burkina Faso, specialty coffee sensory attributes and their relation with coffee quality and the effect of material and reputation attributes on specialty coffee quality ...
FOOD INSECURITY, RACE and MARKET DEMAND
(2022-05-02)
This dissertation includes three essays related to the analysis of the food market from both the consumers’ end and the producers’ end. On the consumption side, I look into the association between food insecurity and ...
Food Safety Scandals and Scares: Media Presentation of Local Beef
(2019-07-23)
This study is part of a long-term project examining the attitudes of Southern beef consumers towards red meat food safety associated with Alternative Food Networks (AFNs). Previous work focused on locally produced beef and ...
Food Spending Among Low-Income Consumers: the Effects of the SNAP Cycle and Seasonality on Purchases and Produce Incentive Use
(2023-04-27)
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) provides food assistance benefits to low-income households. Participants in SNAP face both a cyclical and seasonal struggle when it comes to maintaining enough food ...
Four Essays in International Trade and Economic Development
(2024-01-08)
This dissertation comprises four essays investigating the impact of trade agreements on trade outcomes and the relationship between export diversification and economic growth.
Chapter 1 investigates the effect of the ...
Gender and Rural Vitality: Empowerment through Women’s Community Groups
(2019-04-23)
Rural women are often the main supporters of their families and have been involved in improving the quality of life for households and communities. Sustainable rural development and poverty reduction is linked to empowering ...
"God Bless the Farmer": Community Perceptions of Legal Challenges to Hog Farming Operations in North Carolina
(2018-05-16)
This research is designed to complement existing research concerning the health and the ecological impact of industrial agriculture through semi-structured interviews with residents of Duplin County, where two major lawsuits ...
Growing Naturally in Alabama: Needs and Possibilities
(2008-12-15)
The emergence of the term 'organic farming' describes a distinct system of agriculture compared to conventional or industrial agriculture. Since October 2002, farmers planning to market their products as ΄organic‘ must be ...
Growth Machine Meets Conservation: A Stakeholder Analysis of the Black Warrior and Cahaba River Watersheds
(2005-08-15)
Results from a stakeholder analysis of two central-Alabama watersheds—-the Black Warrior River watershed and Cahaba River watershed—-are presented in this thesis. Stakeholder opinions, perspectives, concerns, interests ...
Heir Property in the South: A Case Study of a Resettlement Community
(2018-07-20)
The purpose of this study is to determine if the resettlement program had an impact on the prevalence of heir property and the impact of heir property on asset building and community development. Given the prevalence of ...