It is often asserted that agricultural land yields significant amenity benefits that could be used as a rationale for some of the substantial support to agriculture occuring in many industrialized countries. This paper introduces a method for incorporating information on the willingness to pay...

In this paper we use a price endogenous mathematical model to estimate the national welfare losses induced by the Norwegian dairy policy. Firstly, we focus on welfare losses at the processing level due to price discrimination between different uses of the milk and cross-subsidization of export....

This paper examines the causes of agrocultural land expansion and deforestation in Tanzania. In the theoretical part, two different - and partly contradicting - sets of hypotheses are outlined. These are based on a subsistence approach, emphasizing the food or income requiremenrs of farm...

This paper examines the causes of agricultural land expansion and deforestation in Tanzania. In the theoretical section, two different -and partly contradicting- sets of hypotheses are outlined.