several market distortions and mounting fiscal costs. Wheat and rice supply strongly and significantly respond to the minimum … grain. The public stock analysis suggests higher storage losses for rice (10 per cent) than for wheat (2 per cent). Public …. international price difference in the case of rice and in the case of wheat, the correlation turned out to be contrary to …

-constrained countries. Within agriculture, crops and non-ruminant sectors have displayed the strongest growth between 1961 and 2001, and …

The extent of genetic diversity in food crops is important as it affects the risk of attack by pathogens. A drop in …

most effective. This paper adds to the literature on extension interventions by evaluating the Uruguayan Livestock Program … breeders. Using an eight year panel constructed by combining data from the Uruguayan livestock traceability system with a …

We present a Bayesian structural Vector Autoregressive model of the global wheat market to examine the relative … importance of supply and demand shocks, which are interpreted as the fundamental driving forces of wheat price. To our knowledge … opposite in signs (0.19 for supply and -0.20 for demand); (ii) the price and the inventories respond to global wheat market …