Soybeans are one of the most valuable crops in the world and are characterized by their multi-purpose uses: food, feed, fuel and other industrial usages such as paint, inks, and plastics. Out of 183.9 million tons of world supply/demand of soybeans in 2001-03 year, about 10% of them were...

This study investigates the demand for selected healthy food groups in the United States. The original linear approximate almost ideal demand system (LA/AIDS) is modified by the use of a Laspeyres index and a normalization in order to compute demand elasticities identically to the AIDS model....

This research develops 'Johansen-type' models of agriculture and constructs Input-Output models for assessing the impact of the post-1992 CAP reforms on incomes, employment and the environment in four Alentejo study areas of Portugal. The effects of agricultural output changes on businesses...