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...

Agricultural policy interests of France and Germany - similarities and divergences under changing conditions. The aim of this contribution is to examine how the French and the German positions on agricultural policy have developed since the foundation of the EEC and what the driving forces were...

This paper offers an overview of assessment methods for physicalplanning, with a particular focus on the agricultural sector. Anattempt is made to link multi-criteria analysis to meta-analysis byapplying rough set theory as a framework for comparative study. Anempirical application on the...

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...