This report sets out some broad ideas about how poverty evaluation could be conducted for ACIAR research projects. As with good benefit–cost analysis, there are good practices that need to be observed when undertaking poverty analysis. While poverty is a broad concept, and can be addressed...

Kazakhstan?s agricultural sector plays an important role in the country'seconomy. Not only does it function as an economic output producer, it alsoserves as a social buffer in times of transition to a market economy. Therestructuring process had a strong impact on the economic performance...

Like many other Asian countries, the causal relationship between agriculturalproductivity and the incidence of rural poverty has been a widely debated subjectin Bangladesh. A number of studies argued that the real agricultural wage ratewas declining during the period when the country had...

Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirementsfor the joint academic degree of International Master of Science in Rural Development from GhentUniversity (Belgium), Agrocampus Rennes (France), Humboldt University of Berlin (Germany) andUniversity of Cordoba (Spain) in collaboration...

This paper presents a new partial-equilibrium, multi-market international model developed to analyze policies affecting peanut products markets. The model covers four goods (food-quality peanuts, crush-quality peanuts, peanut oil, and groundnut cake) in 13 countries/regions (Argentina, Canada,...

The purpose of the paper is examining the potential implications for the UK sugar beet sector of the EU sugar regime reform. Although the reform has yet to be formalised, the initial proposals centre on price and quota cuts. Using panel data from the Farm Business Survey for England, the paper...

The elimination of the marketing quota system that regulated the peanut market since the 1930s has been accompanied by the emergence of marketing contracts between farmers and peanut buyers (mainly peanut shellers). Two types of contracts have been observed, forward contracts for delivery at...

The Arkansas Global Rice Model is based on a multi-country statistical simulation andeconometric framework. The model consists of six sub regions. These regions are the U.S., South Asia,North Asia and the Middle East, the Americas, Africa and Europe. Each region comprises of severalcountries and...

To meet its overall objective of ensuring food security for all households, the Government of Bangladesh undertakes several activities: it intervenes in markets to stabilize prices, targets food distribution to poor households and provides emergency relief after natural disasters. This paper...

The Florida citrus industry operates in a competitive global market. However, unlike program crops, producers in this industry do not benefit from direct income support under the new Farm Bill. There is concern about the impact of elimination of the orange juice tariff on the financial health of...