appendix describes the methodology the authors have used to measure the nominal and relative rates of assistance for farmers …

farmers. The paper suggests strategies and policy actions in order to increase efficiency of public support to agriculture …

farmers and the underprivileged population, are threefold: (a) as a supply-side incentive, to ensure high output from the … farmers, (b) as a demand-side provisioning tool, to subsidize the consumption needs of the poor, and (c) to maintain an … population of small farmers and a social planner. We model the strategic behavior of the farmers and the consuming population …