In this paper, we analyze the factors that influence t he productivity of maize among smallholder farmers, given that unfavourable output and input market conditions throughout the 1990s have compelled smallholder farmers into unsustainable agricultural intensification. We use farm-household...

We examine the performance of the primary school education system in Tanzania over the 1990sa decade characterized by substantial AIDS deaths. Given the relatively robust correlation between educational attainment and productivity established in the literature in both agricultural and...

The evolution of the world food economy between 1980 and 2000 is analyzed based on results obtained with the basic linked system of national and regional models developed by the Food and Agriculture Program of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. Two scenario runs are made....

This study examines three alternative public policies to expand growth in Canadian agncultural production and trade: an approximately 50 percent increase in publicly-funded research and development, a 2 percent subsidy on exports for expanded market development, and a 25 percent reduct10n m the...

The evidence provided in this paper supports the view that the evaluation of the impacts of new technologies must be set in a general equilibrium framework if the results are to valid. The paper also provides support for the need to bring into such impact analyses the effects on imcome...