Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1: History, Policy, and institutions -- Chapter 2: Foundations of the Agricultural Welfare State -- Chapter 3: The Challenge of Market Intervention -- Chapter 4: The Postwar Development of the Agricultural -- Welfare State -- Chapter 5: The Politics of...

A long-dominant reading of American politics holds that public policy in the United States is easily captured by special interest groups. Countering this view, Adam Sheingate traces the development of government intervention in agriculture from its nineteenth-century origins to contemporary...

The global hunger indices of 2008 and 2009 (Grebmer et al. 2008, 2009) point to persistently high levels of hunger and food insecurity and a worsening of the situation due to rising crop prices. At the same time, there is a lack of empirical knowledge on the demand- and supply-side determinants...