This paper explores the reduction of food insecurity in Bolivia, adopting a supply side approach that analyzes the role of agricultural spending on vulnerability. Vulnerability to food insecurity is captured by a municipal level composite -- developed locally within the framework of World Food...

This paper explores the reduction of food insecurity in Bolivia, adopting a supply side approach that analyzes the role of agricultural spending on vulnerability. Vulnerability to food insecurity is captured by a municipal level composite -- developed locally within the framework of World Food...

First World politicians ascribe an exceptionally high social value to the well-being of domestic farmers, apparently without being penalized by political setbacks. In the European Community (EC) , they fix domestic prices on most agricultural commodities above world market prices, sustain these...

The agricultural and food sector is an ideal case for investigating the political economy of public policies. Many of the policy developments in this sector since the 1950s have been sudden and transfirmational, while others have been gradual but persistent. This article reviews and synthesizes...

Die Politik hat die Landwirtschaft mehr und mehr in den Markt entlassen. Auch in Jahren mit durchschnittlichen Preisen produzieren die Landwirte bei den meisten Agrarprodukten nunmehr für den Markt und nicht für die Intervention. Zwar erhalten die Landwirte noch Direktzahlungen, deren...

Seit Januar 1996 bilden die Türken und die EU eine Zollunion, von der die meisten Agrarprodukte ausgenommen sind. In diesem Beitrag werden die Auswirkungen einer Einbeziehung von Agrarprodukten in die Zollunion sowie alternativer Optionen für die Agrarhandelspolitik der Türkei auf den...