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...

Agriculture plays a significant role in the economies of Central America and the Caribbean as a source of employment and export revenue. The role of agriculture in the region is nothing new, yet the nature of the relationship has changed in the past century, particulary when one considers the...

A stochastic frontier production is applied to study the technical inefficiencies of grain production in China using a panel dataset on 30 provinces in 1978-92.