Crop income is the predominant source of income for most rural Mozambican households, accounting for 73% of rural household income on average in 2002, and greater than 80% of the total income of the poorest 40% of rural households. While the Government of Mozambique recognizes the need to...

In an effort to facilitate communication between agricultural producers and their local officials, the Texas AgriLife Extension Services' risk-management specialists and county agricultural agents developed region-specific model farms through the FARM assistance program. Financial and Risk...

Este trabajo pretende evaluar cuantitativamente el impacto economico a largo plazo de la abolicion de la Politica Agraria Comun (PAC), con especial enfasis en Espana. Para realizar nuestro analisis, hemos empleado el modelo de equilibrio general computable del Proyecto de Analisis de Comercio...

El Instituto Agricola Catalan de San isidro (IACSI) es la asociacion agraria mas antigua de las existentes hoy en Espana y, desde su fundacion (1851), ha sido la principal institucion representativa de los interese de la propiedad agraria en Cataluna. Este articulo analiza el papel desempenado...

Este articulo aborda las politicas de gestion de riesgos seguidas en Espana asi como sus persepctivas y posibilidades de mejora. Comienza con un examen de los riesgos a los que se enfrenta la agricultura espanola, partiendo para ello de la percepcion que de ellos tienen los productores y del...

The Feed the Future (FtF) program being implemented in Zambia’s Eastern Province by United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) has its goal of lifting more than a quarter of a million rural people (mostly farmers) out of poverty by 2015 (USAID 2011). The attainment of this...

Rapid urbanization in Zambia means that increasingly heavy demands are being placed on urban food marketing systems. Investment in these systems has been woefully inadequate for many decades, creating supply bottlenecks and health hazards that work against the interests of both farmers and...

This paper underscores the scope and nature of needed responses to the rapidly changing food systems in Africa. The paper identifies key drivers of this change and estimates their magnitudes. The drivers identified are urbanization, per capita income growth, globalization and climate change....