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Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) is one of the most contagious animal diseases. Because of the easy transfer between animals, FMD is of importance to the domestic market, but also to international agricultural trade. Infected countries are often confronted with rigorous measures implemented by their...
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understanding of these important factors could be useful when negotiating trade agreements, especially in agriculture, which is a …, 2008) in an effort to explain trade bias in agriculture. We find little empirical evidence that governments pursue …
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The highly disputed effects of agricultural trade liberalisation are mostly simulated with static models. Our main objective in this paper is to evaluate the robustness of the static simulation results to the consistent modelling of dynamic behaviours and to the linked specification of...
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This paper presents a new model which incorporates features of developing country agriculture that may be critical in …
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Cotton is one of the most important smallholder cash crops in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). How to ensure input supply, credit recovery and competition is a subject of intense policy debate. This paper examines the performance of cotton sector development policies in Mozambique and Zambia. Both...
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Agricultural multifunctionality is the recognition of the joint exercise of economic, environmental and social functions by this sector. In order to make this concept operative for the design of public policies, it is necessary to estimate the social demand for such functions. The main objective...
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This paper describes a methodology to assess the impact of the decoupling of payments on Irish farms at a regional level. The methodology is based on a farm level dynamic linear programming model which optimises regional gross margin under a set of constraints. Regionally representative farms...
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facilitates the policy design for a sustainable and resource saving economic policy in the field of agriculture. We show that DIP …
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change in agriculture is often delayed. In the EU-15, agricultural employment decreased by -2.3% p.a. (measured in regular …, employment in agriculture plummeted in the early 1990s, whereas in others it increased during the first years of transition and …
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broad historical picture of U.S. official economic statistics concerning agriculture, and then turn to selected examples …
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