agro-fuels, may keep prices high for a few years, it is unlikely to fundamentally alter the structure of global agriculture … supports. Meanwhile, farm prices do not remain high for long after liberalization, as supplies, fed by rising yields and new … and the long-term trends toward lower prices. …

, and trade policies on wheat supply, demand, prices, and overall inflation. Analysis of price multipliers indicates that … increases in wheat procurement prices (one means of promoting domestic procurement) have relatively small effects on overall … manipulation, are plausible explanations for price increases in recent years. Comparisons of domestic and international prices …

this light, the paper suggests that the policy focus needs to be laid, towards productivity enhancement in agriculture …

the level of demand for the commodities by an individual consumer given the structure of relative prices faced, real …

making domestic investments targeted at productivity growth. Scenarios for Philippine agriculture under these policy options … liberalization alone has a contractionary effect on agriculture; and production support is a costly instrument for promoting … agricultural growth. The model experiments suggest that a backtobasics strategy for agriculture, incorporating various …

Fruits and vegetables comprise a large and dynamic sub-sector within Philippine agriculture. However the countrys … consumers from the expansion of the sub-sector; fruits and vegetables output has indeed grown more rapidly than agriculture as a …

Achieving self-sufficiency in foodgrain production by 2012, reduction of prices of essential commodities, and poverty … it is available, but low-income households face problems to buy food when food prices are high. For such low …