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  • - Linking Science, Economics, and Policy
    af Jessica Fanzo
    662,95 kr.

    In tandem with food policy, food systems determine the availability, affordability, and nutritional quality of the food supply, which influences the diets that people are willing and able to consume.

  • af Prabhu Pingali
    532,95 - 635,95 kr.

  • af Stephen Devereux & Christophe Béné
    530,95 - 633,95 kr.

  • af Erwin Bulte & Alan de Brauw
    1.383,95 kr.

  • - An Economic and Institutional Perspective
    af Erwin Bulte & Alan de Brauw
    1.391,95 kr.

  • - An Uneasy but Successful Collaboration Between Government and Farmers
    af David Hall
    1.695,95 kr.

    The book analyses agricultural economics and food policy in New Zealand, where farming produce has been by far the main export commodity. After World War II farmers at first encouraged Government financial support for farming and by the 1980s farming was highly subsidised.

  • - Historic Foundations and 21st Century Issues
    af Stephanie A. Mercier & Steve A. Halbrook
    1.206,95 - 1.223,95 kr.

    This book serves as a foundational reference of U.S. land settlement and early agricultural policy, a comprehensive journey through the evolution of 20th century agricultural policy, and a detailed guide to the key agricultural policy issues of the early 21st century.

  • - An Economic Perspective
    af John M. Antle & Srabashi Ray
    336,95 - 350,95 kr.

    This book provides a non-technical, accessible primer on sustainable agricultural development and its relationship to sustainable development based on three analytical pillars.

  • - Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Empirics in Commodities Markets
    af Michael K. Wohlgenant
    713,95 kr.

    In addition to problems of matching data with theoretical constructs, students and researchers need to know how to specify, estimate, and interpret results within the context of imperfect and often incomplete data.

  • af Prabhu Pingali, Anaka Aiyar, Mathew Abraham & mfl.
    334,95 - 351,95 kr.

    This open access book examines the interactions between India's economic development, agricultural production, and nutrition through the lens of a "Food Systems Approach (FSA)." The Indian growth story is a paradoxical one.

  • af Kym Anderson
    1.009,95 - 1.302,95 kr.

    This book explores the potential for policy reform as a short-term, low-cost way to sustainably enhance global food security. It argues that reforming policies that distort food prices and trade will promote the openness needed to maximize global food availability and reduce fluctuations in international food prices.

  • af Johan Swinnen
    1.391,95 kr.

    Political considerations are therefore crucial to understand how agricultural and food policies are determined, to identify the constraints within which welfare-enhancing reforms are possible (or not), and finally to understand how coalitions can be created to stimulate growth and reduce poverty.

  • - A New Approach to West Africa
    af Paul Richards, Erwin Bulte & Maarten Voors
    1.006,95 kr.

    This book argues that development strategies have thus far failed in Western Africa because the many challenges afflicting the area have yet to be explored and understood from the perspective of institutional resources.

  • af Johan Swinnen
    1.391,95 kr.

    Political considerations are therefore crucial to understand how agricultural and food policies are determined, to identify the constraints within which welfare-enhancing reforms are possible (or not), and finally to understand how coalitions can be created to stimulate growth and reduce poverty.

  • af Julian M. Alston & Abigail M. Okrent
    1.926,95 kr.

    Drawing on evidence from economics, public health, nutrition, and medicine, the authors evaluate past and potential future roles of policies such as farm subsidies, public agricultural R&D, food assistance programs, taxes on particular foods (such as sodas) or nutrients (such as fat), food labeling laws, and advertising controls.

  • af Matin Qaim
    349,95 kr.

    This book analyzes the impacts of current and possible future GM crop applications and shows that these technologies can contribute substantially to sustainable agricultural development and food security.

  • - Frittering Away Food Security
    af William A. Kerr & May T. Yeung
    620,95 kr.

    This Palgrave Pivot investigates barriers to international agricultural trade caused by a lack of standardized maximum residue levels (MRL) for pesticides.

  • - A New Approach to West Africa
    af Paul Richards, Erwin Bulte & Maarten Voors
    716,95 kr.

    This book argues that development strategies have thus far failed in Western Africa because the many challenges afflicting the area have yet to be explored and understood from the perspective of institutional resources.

  • - Impacts on Price Volatility in Grain and Oilseed Markets
    af Harry De Gorter, David R. Just & Dusan Drabik
    632,95 - 1.298,95 kr.

    This combined with biofuel policies role in affecting the link between biofuels and energy (gasoline, diesel and crude oil) prices will form the basis to show how alternative US, EU, and Brazilian biofuel policies have immense impacts on the level and volatility of food grain and oilseed prices.

  • - Promoting Growth with Poverty Reduction
    af John W. Mellor
    342,95 kr.

    This book examines the role of agriculture in the economic transformation of developing low- and middle-income countries and explores means for accelerating agricultural growth and poverty reduction.