This paper examines the distributional impacts of agricultural policies versus those of cash transfers using a tax …-benefit microsimulation model for Zambia for the policy year 2020. The analysis also considers the behavioural impacts of input subsidies and … social cash transfers. The results indicate that Zambian agricultural policies reduce headcount poverty by 3-5 percentage …

showing how much emissions from agricultural production would change if agricultural support were abolished worldwide. The … agricultural emissions would be smaller. Without agricultural trade protection, however, emissions would be higher. This is partly … because protection reduces global demand more than it increases global agricultural supply, and partly because some countries …

Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) easement programs offer an adaptation strategy to improve agricultural … resilience. Easements impact agricultural production directly by reducing planting on marginal land and indirectly by improving … externalities including yield spillovers and a spillage effect. My results have policy implications for future NRCS funding and …

Colonial Trade Act of 1831 (a unilateral liberalization of the entry of agricultural goods from the United States) and a rapid …