countries. In Egypt and some other countries it has put food subsidy schemes to the test. This paper develops two comparable … computable general equilibrium models for Egypt and Ukraine which are used to simulate direct and indirect impacts of the food …

The dominance of cotton in the irrigated areas of Central Asia has long been criticized for its ecological effects on … dominated by the conventional cotton and wheat rotation introduced after 1991. The second district is home to a wide range of … hands-on experience of harvest mechanisation in the traditional cotton region so far. In addition to the state delivery …

current paper analyses the nature and effects of state regulation in the cotton sector. In the early 2000s, it was considered … to be the only example of private vertical coordination in Kazakhstani agriculture, which contrasted sharply with the … host a "cotton cluster". In the following years, private producers and investors turned away from cotton, and cotton area …