The paper develops a model of producer participation in farm commodity programs. In the model, producers maximize profits subject to a common technology, but a differentiated resource endowment. As a result, in equilibrium, some producers participate in the program, while others do not. The...

The paper focuses on possible scenarios of EU CAP reforms after 2013. It uses linguistic analysis in order to analyze the discourse of EU Agriculture commissioners. One of the conclusions of the paper is that one of the main catalyst of EU CAP reform discussion is the issue of climate change. We...

In line with economic conditions in 2008 and the need to boost agricultural productivity and stabilize agricultural commodity prices, the government of Ghana instituted a nationwide fertilizer subsidy program. This study analyzes the determinants of access to the Ghana Fertilizer Subsidy Program...

The overall goal of our paper is to understand how WTO will affect the agriculture sector in China. To accomplish this goal we have two specific objectives. First, we seek to provide measures of the distortions in China's agricultural sector at a time immediately prior to the nation's accession...

This paper presents the dominating farming structure in Bulgaria on the eve of EU accession, and evaluates recent policies for farm and agricultural income support, and assesses likely consequences of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) implementation on farming structures and sustainability. We...

We decompose the impact of trade reform on technology adoption and land use to study how aggregate changes were driven by reallocation versus within-farm adaptation. Using detailed census data covering over 30,000 farms in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Canada we find a range of new...

Agricultural growth has been largely responsible for India's desire for long term food security for its rapidly growing population and making food affordable by price stabilization. It is therefore a big challenge for the policy makers to make policies which enable farmers to efficiently adjust...

The study examined the impact of Ghana's fertiliser subsidy programme on maize output and technical efficiency among smallholder farmers in Ghana. Several null hypotheses were tested based on data gathered from a sample of three hundred and fifty-two (352) farmers drawn from two of Ghana's five...