Showing papers in "Agricultural Economics in 2001"

TL;DR: In this article, a spatial multi-agent programming model was developed for assessing policy options in the diffusion of innovations and resource use changes in an agricultural region in Chile, where the individual choice of the farm-household among available production, consumption, investment and marketing alternatives is represented in recursive linear programming models.

TL;DR: In this paper, evidence from Ghana suggests that gender-linked differences in the adoption of modern maize varieties and chemical fertilizer result from gender linked differences in access to complementary inputs, especially land, labor, and extension services.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed the literature on the conceptual and empirical underpinnings of this more recent perspective, focussing on the experience in developing countries, pointing to evidence that in many countries the sector is expanding rather than declining.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the literature on the conceptual and empirical underpinnings of this more recent perspective, focussing on the experience in developing countries and document the size and heterogeneity of the rural non-farm sector, pointing to evidence that in many countries the sector is expanding rather than declining.

TL;DR: In this article, a meta-analysis is performed to review empirical estimates of technical efficiency (TE) in developing country agriculture in order to contribute to a better understanding of the factors that influence estimates of mean TE.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated fresh meat consumption in Belgium during 1995-1998 through the specification of a three-equation almost ideal demand system (AIDS) incorporating a media index of TV coverage and advertising expenditures as explanatory variables.

TL;DR: In this article, a comparative assessment of alternative modelling approaches, considering a total of 16 partial equilibrium and general equilibrium models, is presented, and a typology of models is provided by structuring the assessment along a clear set of evaluation criteria.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured the technical efficiency of wheat farms in eastern England through the estimation of a stochastic frontier production function using panel data for the 1993-1997 crop years.

TL;DR: The divergence in the implementation of agricultural reform has led to divergence in standard development measures: the CEE countries are outperforming the CIS countries by growth in GDP and agricultural product since 1992; the productivity of agricultural labor in CEE is generally increasing, and in CIS it is decreasing.

TL;DR: In this article, an econometric assessment of wine market prices for 21 of the Crus Classes châteaux in the Bordeaux region of France is presented, and the results indicate that composition levels of Merlot dominated wines are more climate sensitive than those from Cabernet Sauvignon-dominated wines.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the problem of accounting for locational spillovers in attributing varietal-improvement technology among research performers, using US wheat varieties as an example.

TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between the financial structure of a marketing cooperative and the requirement of the domination of control by the members is analyzed from a transaction costs perspective, and it is shown that a MC receives less favorable terms on outside equity than a conventional firm because the decision power regarding new investments is not allocated to the providers of these funds.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the role of telecommunications within the contexts of rural development in general and of poverty reduction in particular, and find that pursuance of pragmatic policies can turn telephones into production goods, especially through lowering transaction costs, and the services originating from telephones in villages are likely to deliver (even) more benefits to the poor than to the non-poor.

TL;DR: In this paper, an approach to evaluate a broad set of such benefits for a vegetable program in the Philippines was provided. But little empirical work has been completed to estimate the value of the environmental benefits of IPM.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provided district-level estimates of the contribution of technical change to agricultural output growth in the Indian Punjab from 1960 to 1993, and found that productivity growth was surprisingly low during the green revolution (in the mid-1960s), when modern hybrid seed varieties were being adopted.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the impact of food scares on UK beef prices at retail, wholesale and producer levels over the 1990s and show the importance of publicity regarding the safety of food in the transmission of beef prices in the UK.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the psychology of decision making from a farm management perspective, outlines what psychology offers for changing a person's attributes, and considers the structure of a research programme aimed at developing methods for improving individual's managerial ability.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the physical risk assessment approach combined with contingent valuation survey results on consumers' willingness to reduce pesticide risk and found that the reduction in external costs associated with the changes in pesticide use in Ontario agriculture between 1983 and 1998 is US$ 188 per household.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the impact of the institution of brokerage on the optimal search behavior and the welfare gains and losses of traders in the Ethiopian grain market and found that without brokers, the privately optimal search diverges from the socially optimal search due to the positive spillover of individual search behavior.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of structural changes coinciding with economic development and changes in political institutions on agricultural protection is investigated. But the authors focus on the impact on the agricultural market and do not consider the effect of political institutions.

TL;DR: In the case of the 1998 flood in Bangladesh, despite the best efforts of donors and the government, the public distribution of rice and wheat was only 188,000 T more than originally planned for July 1998 to April 1999.

TL;DR: In this article, estimates presented for Taiwan demonstrate that structural changes in food demand (as distinguished from changes due to income and price effects) have been significant factors driving the rapid changes in dietary patterns seen in East Asia over the past three decades.

TL;DR: In this article, an integrated reform agenda involving improvements in the targeting of the public distribution system, creation of an enabling environment for increased private participation in food grain markets and greater incentives for efficiency by the Food Corporation of India (FCI) is proposed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the need for crop insurance for litchi production in northern Vietnam and how farmers might participate in such a program and concluded that while farmer participation would be significant, crop insurance is not needed to achieve policy goals like raising farmer income or guaranteeing subsistence levels of income.

TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between the financial structure of a marketing cooperative and the requirement of the domination of control by the members is analyzed from a transaction costs perspective, and it is shown that a MC receives less favorable terms on outside equity than a conventional firm because the decision power regarding new investments is not allocated to the providers of these funds.

TL;DR: The conceptual and practical issues in measuring total social factor productivity (TSFP) and shows that no one measure alone will be theoretically or empirically robust as an indicator of sustainability as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: This paper surveys the experience of agricultural taxation in developing countries in the context of the ongoing policy debate about the tax structure and administration affecting agricultural producers, and analyzes the conceptual and practical problems associated with different tax regimes.

TL;DR: In this article, the main determinants of alcoholic beverages consumption at home were analyzed using data from the latest Spanish Household National Survey, which provides information on expenditure and quantities of different food products by household.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted theoretical inquiries and empirical analysis on the issue of institutional evolution for resource management, focusing on irrigation water, a traditional local common property resource, and found that the profit of rice production using well water only is low due to the high labour input required for well irrigation management.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the economic implications of transgenic virus-and weevil-resistant sweet potatoes in Kenya and found that the projected annual gross benefit is 5.4mUS$ (million US$) for virus resistance and 9.9 mUS$ for weevil resistance.