Macroeconomic events and policies strongly influence agricultural sector outcomes. Chapters synthesized here delineate both feed-forward and feedback linkages between agriculture and the macroeconomy, examining how relationships change as countries develop and undergo structural transformation....

The changing economic conditions over the past century, along with changes in technology and developments in economic theory and quantitative methods, helped shape the profession we currently refer to as agricultural and applied economics. The broadening of the profession from the original focus...

This paper compares domestic dairy policies in the USA and EC and examines the impact of these policies on each dairy industry to explore domestic policy interdependence. The EC and USA have similar goals ofimproving farm income and use similar price support policies to achieve these goals....