The current ACIAR (Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research) guidelines forimpact assessment of agricultural development projects see impact assessment as being usefulfor both accountability to stakeholders and as a learning tool to find out what works, whatdoesn’t work and...

In May, 2000 the Co-operative Research Centre for Sustainable Rice Production (henceforthcalled the Rice CRC) commissioned Professor John Spriggs and Mr Tony Dunn from CharlesSturt University to write a paper called Scoping out a Socio-economic Research Agenda. InJune 2000, Associate Professor...

Previous studies of the effects of agricultural trade policy reform have treated internal policies for supply-managed commodities as exogenous. In the authors' model, however, quotas on imports, are chosen jointly with domestic production quotas to balance total welfare and its distribution...

This paper examines the importance of monetary macroeconomic variables on Canadian agricultural prices using vector autoregressive modeling. The research results suggest that U.S. monetary macroeconomic policy, as represented by the U.S./world exchange rate, is the most significant monetary...