Examines the consequences of export-led agricultural growth for food production, food supply, food prices and agricultural wages.

Examines the economic and social consequences of the decline in international prices for coffee, cocoa, and cotton. Covers the period 1980 to 1992.

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the role of natural disasters, agrarian structures, agricultural policy (agricultural price) and economic development trends in recent food shortages in Africa South of Sahara - includes a comparison of food production and agricultural product export volume;...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on rural area labour markets in Peru - discusses the historical background, agrarian structure, farm size, social structure, internal migration, seasonal unemployment, agricultural income, impact of land reform, obstacles to labour market expansion, impact on...

Examines the impact of an Economic Recovery Programme, a standard IMF/World Bank Structural Adjustment Programme, on agriculture in the period between 1987 and 1997.

Focuses on the relationship between the overall growth of the economy and the growth of food production. Discusses the impact of relative food and agricultural prices on rural-urban wage differentials.

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the role of the new international economic order in eradicating rural area poverty and promoting rural development - focuses on importance of the agricultural sector and agricultural exports; examines NIEO proposals such as increasing export earnings, reducing...

Attempts to identify incentives that will stimulate diversification of the rural economy and encourage adoption of ecologically sustainable technologies within the traditional sector.