The purpose of this study is to assess the potential of clustering in the development of agriculture and rural communities in China. We shall examine in detail the food industry, which is the link in the food chain that propels the industrialization of agriculture, and identify instances of...

There is no consensus about how globalization –trade and foreign investments – affects poverty reduction. Using household survey data, this study contributes to the empirical literature on globalization and poverty by analyzing the household-level implications of increased foreign...

El articulo reviso el debate suscitado en torno al Informe 2008 del Banco Mundial didicado especificamente al tema <<Agricultura para el Desarrollo>. El Informe ha tenido considerables repercusiones politicas, contribuyendo a situar la atencion a la agricultura en el centro de la agenda de desarrollo internacional, y ha abierto...</<agricultura>

El Instituto Agricola Catalan de San isidro (IACSI) es la asociacion agraria mas antigua de las existentes hoy en Espana y, desde su fundacion (1851), ha sido la principal institucion representativa de los interese de la propiedad agraria en Cataluna. Este articulo analiza el papel desempenado...

Even though it is clear that Substantial growth in inorganic fertilizer use is a prerequisite for sustained agricultural growth in Africa, fertilizer use is still one of the factors explaining lagging agricultural productivity growth in SSA. High transport costs and less policy support pose a...

Este trabajo pretende evaluar cuantitativamente el impacto economico a largo plazo de la abolicion de la Politica Agraria Comun (PAC), con especial enfasis en Espana. Para realizar nuestro analisis, hemos empleado el modelo de equilibrio general computable del Proyecto de Analisis de Comercio...

The deregulation of Ghana’s domestic cocoa supply chain that took place in the early 1990s was expected to bring competition among different private buyers and to generate a number of production incentives to the farmers. Most notably, it was expected that competition would emerge by means of...

Limited empirical evidence exists either to confirm or refute the hypotheses that food-safety standards confer a positive external effect on farmers adopting it. This article makes use of health indicators obtained from a random cross-section sample of 439 small-scale export farmers in Kenya to...

This paper focuses on methods for assessing the territorial impact (economic, social and environmental) of geographical indication systems. First, in a review of methods, methodological difficulties and choices are discussed and major studies are briefly presented. We highlight that it is...

El objetivo de este articulo es analizar la posible evolucion de los instrumentos de la PAC 2020 en funcion de la Comunicacion de la Comision de 18 de noviembre de 2010 y de las propuestas legislativas de 12 de octubre de 2011. Resalta los principales vecotres que con duciran el proximo proceso...