Since the introduction of the household responsibility system, China¡¯s agricultural economy has been growing with the enlargement of regional labor productivity disparity. Based on the traditional decomposition technique for the research of agricultural economic growth, this paper uses the...

This paper addresses various aspects of risk and risk management for smallholders in developing countries, and presents a quantitative assessment of farm-level risks and risk management strategies in three emerging economies: Brazil, China and Viet Nam. The analysis covers production, income,...

The key contribution of this report lies in developing a typology to structure the components of the enabling environment for agricultural growth and competitiveness, and in constructing an illustrative Agricultural Growth Enabling Index (AGEI) to summarise a wide array of available information...

The volume contains the papers accepted and published in the proceedings of the 3rd International symposium entitled: ‘Agrarian Economy and Rural Development - realities and perspectives for Romania’, organized by the Institute of Research for Agricultural Economics and Rural Development,...

In this paper I analyze the ÔNitrogen ParadoxÕ stated by Robert Allen in his interpretation of the English Agricultural Revolution as an adaptive response to the agro-climatic impacts of the last phase of the Little Ice Age. The colder and more humid climate during the second half of the 17th...

In this paper we investigate a `global' production function for agriculture, using FAO data for 128 countries from 1961-2002. Our review of the empirical literature in this field highlights that existing cross-country studies largely neglect variable time-series properties, parameter...

The paper reviews the implications for rural development of current transformations in agriculture. It first identifies some of the driving forces - in addition to the impact of rising incomes in some but not all developing countries - behind the transformation process: changing market chains,...

Entre 1990 y 1997 la agricultura colombiana ha registrado un pobre desempeño, el cual ha sido resultado fundamentalmente de tendencias macroeconómicas negativas (v.gr., la apreciación del tipo de cambio) y de la caída en los precios internacionales. Sin embargo, el desempeño global esconde...

Agricultural trade liberalization is a complex process, insofar as its shapes and stakes are concerned, in which numerous issues clash. This process comes at a time of high technical change. The consequences of agricultural trade liberalization are altogether paradoxical, ambiguous and...

This paper analyses the performance of the Romanian agriculture as against theEU agriculture from a historic perspective in order to reveal the gaps and to demythologizethe assertion saying that ‘Romania has been Europe‘s most productive cereal-producingagriculture‘. The findings resulted...