This report explores how countries can strengthen the resilience of their agricultural sectors to multiple risks. A shifting risk landscape in agriculture – due to increasing weather variability, natural hazards, pests and diseases, and market shocks – will require public and private actors...

Hans Ulrich Locher untersucht das Verhältnis zwischen den UNO-Menschenrechtspakten und der Gesellschaft. Er analysiert die Kommunikation über diese fundamentalen Werte der Menschheit. In diesem Zusammenhang erforscht der Autor den Prozess zwischen universalen Rechtsgrundlagen und dem Handeln...

"This paper examines interactions between market power and agricultural policy in the U.S. wheat flour milling industry using a non-parametric approach. The analysis focuses on marketing loan and pre-1986 deficiency payment programs; farmers' payments from these programs are dependent on whether...