This chapter extends the work of the previous chapters by fitting a long run profit function to investigate the sources of output growth in South African agriculture. In the long run, all the conventional inputs are treated as variable, but the technology-related variables are fixed because they...

Actions that affect environmental quality both influence and respond to macroeconomic variables. Further, many environmental and macroeconomic consequences of current actions will have uncompensated effects that outlive the actors. This paper presents an overlapping-generations model of...

Precision agricultural (PA) technologies can decrease input costs by providing farmers with more detailed information and application control, but adoption has been sluggish, especially for variable-rate technologies (VRT). Is it possible that farmers have difficulty realizing these cost...

Recent theoretical research on self-enforcing international environmental agreements (IEAs) has yielded rather pessimistic results: IEAs can be sustained only in cases where the outcome of cooperation is only a minor improvement over non-cooperation. Trans-boundary water pollution problems and...