Special circumstances in the agricultural sector have limited the use of comparative advantage in addressing the planner's dilemma of allocating investment between industry and agriculture and in examining the doctrine of food selfsufficiency. A three-factor model of agricultural trade,...

This article demonstrates that when a second product is introduced into the traditional single-product, partial equilibrium model, the predictions of the impact of a tariff on prices are no longer determinate In contrast to the traditional single-product partial equilibrium framework in a...

A methodology based on spatial analysis is proposed to investigate suitability of crop, and then applied to analyzing the suitability for global maize production. The suitable and unsuitable maize cultivated regions are given based on the analysis, and maize cultivated regions sensitive to...