This study assesses the responsiveness of peas ant farmers to price and non-price factors using a farm-level survey data from Ethiopia, and the extent to which responsiveness varies with agro-ecology and farming systems. Agro-climatic and farming system differences are explicitly taken into...

Books reviewed: Carl Davidson and Steven J. Matusz, International Trade and Labour Markets: Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications Christina L. Davis, Food Fights Over Free Trade: How International Institutions Promote Agricultural Trade Liberalization Jan Joost Teunissen and Mark Teunissen...

This paper is concerned with the impact of the BSE crisis in the UK and focuses on the spread between retail and farm prices. From a theoretical perspective we show that if market power has an effect on the spread between retail and farm prices then this determines the specification of the...

Much research has been devoted to assessing the evidence for linear trend in a time series. We discuss the statistical implications of some recent developments, with specific application to 24 time series of relative primary commodities prices