This paper addresses two issues: the relationship between the choice of rental contract in agriculture and the set of conditions or environment under which such contracts are arrived at, and the implications of this relationship for efficiency, equity, and development policy. Both issues have...

A lack of agricultural marketing facilities is generally seen as one of the major obstacles to agricultural development. However, subsistence producers in southern Africa are influenced by certain exogeneous factors, such as competition from commercial production, the well-developed marketing...

This paper presents the main results of a study that proposes a methodology for studying whether or not a heterogeneous agricultural sector, such as that of Mexico, faces unfavourable terms of trade. These results are used to interpret the origins of the basic food production problems...

This paper analyzes the farm, wholesale, and retail price series of nine agricultural prcxiucts (rice, beans, maize, soyabeans, potatoes, onions, bananas, tomatoes, and oranges). Causality analysis is carried out to determine the possible existence of a market level that systematically tends to...

This paper docwnents the radical restructuring of the supply of agricultural credit in Portugal in the 1980s. In the previoos decade, commercial banks and Ministry of Agriculture programmes dominated the supply of agrirultural finance. By 1986, however, the national network of agricultural...