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Discussion: Economic Sustainability of Rural Areas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 January 2015

Douglas H. Constance
Douglas H. Constance*
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas
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Abstract

The three articles in this invited paper session examine value-added strategies related to agriculture and food at the state and federal level designed to enhance rural development. Two of the papers dealt with the GO TEXAN program and the other with organic agriculture. All three papers were well written and interesting, but all three also shed light on the problem of using classical economic theory to interpret differentiated agriculture and food products as opposed to undifferentiated commodities.

Keywords

foodorganicrural developmentvalue addedQ18Q56
Type
Invited Paper Sessions
Information
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 43 , Issue 3 , August 2011 , pp. 453 - 455
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 2011

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