In the Dasgupta-Heal-Solow-Stiglitz model of capital accumulation and resource depletion we show the following equivalence: If an efficient path has constant (gross and net of population growth) savings rates, then population growth must be quasi-arithmetic and the path is a maximin or a...

La Mojana es una subregión ubicada en la parte norte de Colombia, caracterizada por ser una zona de humedales productivos, perteneciente a la Depresión Momposina, con la función ambiental de regular los cauces de los ríos Magdalena, Cauca y San Jorge, amortiguar las inundaciones y facilitar...

Prior research presumes that the U.S. livestock feed demand for dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS) can accommodate the rapid growth in DDGS production. The objective of this work is to reexamine the market potential for DDGS by considering factors that limit the adoption rate of DDGS....

Agrarian policy discussions have traditionally centred on how such policy can be formulated so as to galvanise agricultural production (the 'reversing of the terms of trade bias against agriculture' of the Neo-liberals being one obvious facet of this approach) or to reduce rural inequalities (as...

This paper studies the impact of family structures and elders' participation status on sectoral labor allocation in developing agricultural economies.

This report is part of the Trade research Series that Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) is undertaking to support discussions in connection with multilateral and bilateral trade negotiations. The purpose of the series is to create an inventory of research that will make it easer for...

This paper examines the implementation of a Big Push policy in Northern Honduras. Big Push theory emphasizes that pro-active development policy could potentially lead to a Pareto-superior equilibrium. Market forces may not lead to the adoption of increasing-returns production processes, if...

Operational validation of a linear programming model of a dairy farm is done on the basis of representative results from reality. the model will be used to determine the effects of institutional, technical and price changes on the results of dairy farms.

An organizational economic analysis of the agricultural enterprise illustrates that agricultural entrepreneurs are not the independent capitalist entrepreneurs they are often assumed to be. This paper offers an alternative characterization of agricultural entrepreneurs as entrepreneurial...