As farm income from tobacco production has declined in recent years, there has been increasing interest in identifying … alternative sources of income for tobacco farmers in the southern United States The recent termination of the tobacco quota … program has accelerated the exit of tobacco farmers and has heightened concern regarding the availability of substitutes for …

analysis uses Malawi, a country that earns most of its foreign exchange from tobacco, as a case study of export concentration …) when tobacco exports are falling is almost three times greater than the increase in GDP when exports are rising. Model …-based simulations indicate that variability in tobacco exports leads to slower economic growth because GDP falls by a relatively large …