Combining risk programming with biophysical simulation offers potential benefits for helping farmers in developing countries choose cropping and irrigation strategies or for the study of farmer behaviour. Risk can have a significant impact on the way resources are allocated and should therefore...

The major determinants of cereal import demand in 7 4 less-developed countries (LDCs) were analysed using an econometric cross-sectional model. Key explanatory factors included the level of income and degree of urbanization, financial capacity proxies, and domestic grain supply variables. A...

This paper proposes that under the conditions typical of the Amazon frontier of Brazilabsence of a wage labour market and abundant supply of land-farm-family labour is a positive function of debt. This labour supply response, known as "debt peonage," provides for indirect management of farm...

Agricultural protection varies considerably among different commodities. To understand inter-industry protection within agriculture, the price-setting neotiation procedure involving producers and consumers. This type of price setting gives farmers an excellent opportunity to affect relative...

In a developing economy characterized by economic dualism, the interrelationship between the growth of the agricultural sector and that of the industrial sector is crucial for overall development. Theoretically, the agricultural and industrial sectors are closely linked. Agricultural progress...

The PROCISUR cooperative research programme is an agreement among Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uraguay. This paper analyses its impact in terms of rates of return, based on an analysis of the programme as it affects productivity changes in wheat, maize, and soyabeans in the...

This paper extends Bresnhan's market power measure, which can be estiamted exonometrically, to marketing firms that have potential for price discrimination. An investigation of Japanese soyabean markets during 1973-78 using the model reveals an episode in which Japanese importers exercised some...

The interaction between macroeconomic and trade issues and agriculture is not well understood. In sub-Saharan Africa, this relation becomes critical in recent structural adjustment programmes, especially in countries where agriculture is the mainstay of the economy. This paper examines...

Based on a case study, this paper analyses China's current price and subsidy policy for grain and discusses some questions relating to the reorientation of this policy. First, the pricing system for the grain market, especially that for the state-run grain marketing agencies, is illustrated....