Showing papers in "Agricultural Economics in 2008"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a more comprehensive review of the potential causes and consequences of recent rising international food prices based on the best and most recent research, as well as on fresh theoretical and empirical analysis.

TL;DR: The authors showed that the short-run impacts of higher staple food prices on poverty differ considerably by commodity and by country, but, that poverty increases are much more frequent, and larger, than poverty reductions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the trends in government subsidies and investments in and for Indian agriculture and developed a conceptual framework and a model to assess the impact of various subsidies on agricultural growth and poverty reduction; and presented reform options with regard to reprioritizing government spending.

TL;DR: In this article, a new cross-sectional methodology that explicitly incorporates adaptation into an analysis of the impacts of climate change was developed, which examines how a farmer will change choices of species and number to adapt to climate.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a model of agricultural production and its impact on the environment (MAgPIE), which is a mathematical programming model covering the most important agricultural crop and livestock production types in 10 economic regions worldwide at a spatial resolution of three by three degrees, i.e., approximately 300 by 300 km at the equator.

TL;DR: This paper examined the impact of marketing cooperatives on smallholder commercialization of cereals using detailed household data in rural Ethiopia and found that although cooperatives obtain higher prices for their members, they are not associated with a significant increase in the overall share of cereal production sold commercially by their members.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the adoption and impact of two farmer and market-preferred and disease-resistant pigeonpea varieties that were developed and promoted in semi-arid Tanzania.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the mechanisms that transmit isolation into productivity in the case of Madagascar and found that the inverse relationship between agricultural productivity and isolation is surprisingly strong, and identified the following reasons why productivity might decline with isolation: transportation-induced transaction costs, increasing price variability and extensification onto less fertile land and insecurity.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared actual income with the hypothetical income without NERICA and found that introduction of the New Rice for Africa (NERICA) decreases poverty to a significant extent without deteriorating income distribution.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the impact of stone bunds on value of crop production per hectare in low and high rainfall areas of the Ethiopian highlands using cross-sectional data from more than 900 households, with multiple plots per household.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the performance of a rural credit market in Peru and develop a model that shows that collateral requirements imposed by lenders in response to asymmetric information can lead not just to quantity rationing but also to transaction cost rationing and risk rationing.

TL;DR: The authors decompose sources of output growth in global agriculture into aggregate input and total factor productivity (TFP) components and examine whether productivity growth slowed substantially in the years leading up to the recent rise in commodity prices.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impacts of these price rises are analyzed using various approaches, including short-run net benefit ratio analysis, long-term analysis using a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model, and policy analysis reveals difficult trade-offs between short run mitigation and long run growth.

TL;DR: The authors assesses the potential impact of rising world food prices on the welfare of Ugandan households using trade volumes, food prices, and household survey data, and describe how Uganda, unlike some other countries, is partially shielded from direct impacts of global food price movements.

TL;DR: This article used a global CGE model to show that the initial world price rise was largely due to higher world oil prices and demand for biofuels as opposed to other factors, especially in maize and soybeans.

TL;DR: In this paper, an economy-wide multimarket model, augmented with existing poverty growth elasticities, is developed to assess the likely impacts of a rapid acceleration in food production on food prices, consumption and demand, farmer revenue, and poverty.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use a model of farmer decision under risk to analyze the differential values between Spanish COP organic and conventional farms and assess the incentives for adoption of organic practices.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a sample of 73 developing countries to estimate the change in the cost of alleviating urban poverty brought about by the recent increase in food prices and found that, for most countries, the cost represents less than 0.1 percent of gross domestic product.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors estimate the costs of GHG mitigation for 36 world agricultural regions for the 2000-2020 period, taking into account net GHG reductions, yield effects, livestock productivity effects, commodity prices, labor requirements, and capital costs where appropriate.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the way that information about crop attributes is conveyed (or not) along the value chain and found that little information circulates about unobservable crop characteristics.

TL;DR: The authors measured consumer preferences for country of origin in four different international locations and one domestic control location using a conjoint experiment to test the null hypotheses that consumers do not have stronger own-country preferences.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of NCPB activities on the historical path of private sector prices in Kenyan maize markets between 1989 and 2004 were analyzed using a reduced form vector autoregression model (VAR).

TL;DR: In this paper, the impacts of rising world food prices on poverty in rural and urban areas of Pakistan were estimated by using household income and expenditure data for 2004/2005 to estimate compensated and uncompensated price and expenditure elasticities using linear approximation of the almost ideal demand system.

TL;DR: In this article, the potential impacts of Bt eggplant technology in Indian agriculture are analyzed and the potential benefits for farmers' health resulting from reduced insecticide applications are examined, using an econometric model and a cost-of-illness approach.

TL;DR: The authors found that the degree to which traded food commodities and the price of food are related depends on a long list of factors, most of which operate to dampen price transmission, and that consumers do not buy raw food commodities at international prices.

TL;DR: In this article, a general equilibrium approach is proposed to evaluate direct and indirect effects of ground water resources regulation on agriculture and nonagriculture sectors and extend the scope for water policy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrate how slow conversion to organic farming in general, and the different rates of conversion in Germany and Austria in particular, can be explained by the new investment theory.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of facilities and infrastructure available at the marketplace on a farmer's decision to sell at the market was analyzed and the econometric estimation showed that the likelihood of sales increased significantly with an improvement in market facilities and a decrease in travel time from the village to the market.

TL;DR: Park et al. as mentioned in this paper employed the error correction method and historical decomposition with direct acyclic graphs to quantify the impacts of domestic and oversea animal disease crises on the Korean meat markets.