The current situation and prospects for coffee are of widespread interest to American consumers and to those who supply them, and it is of vital interest to the many Latin American countries that depend on coffee as a primary source of foreign exchange earnings. The smaller per capita use of...

Mathematical programming methods are used as a framework to evaluate world food prospects. Emphasis is on analyzing the world grain-oilseeds-livestock economy to capture the interaction of the predominantly cereal economies of the developing world and the livestock economies of the developed...

The domestic peanut industry has operated under Government programs for over 40 years, programs designed primarily to Increase producers' Income The author evaluates effects of these controls on the Industry and provides an estimate of their indirect costs to consumers The major novelty of the...