Rice innovations are technologies and practices extensively adopted so as to change production practices and productivity. This paper documents the changes in rice productivity, policy and institutions in the last 100 years and identifies the technological change that may have affected rice...

Using a political economy perspective, this paper establishes the strong relationship between rice and politics and explains recent developments in the Philippine rice landscape. Results of the analysis show that the price of rice has been a significant determinant in election results since the...

The paper examines the effect of an RP-US FTA in the Philippine agricultural sector. Using an Applied General Equilibrium (AGE) Model, it analyzes the impact of the removal of tariffs on imports from the US on the various commodities in agriculture and food processing. The simulation results...

Contract growing has been defined as an agreement between farmers and processing and/or marketing firms under forward agreements, usually at predetermined prices for the production and supply of agricultural products (Eaton and Shepherd 2001). As such, it offers a solution to a number of...

This paper aims to analyze how contracts are determined and modified given diverse agricultural settings and to examine the implications of these changes with respect to their efficiency, distribution, and sustainability. The contract model presented here differs from previous contract models as...

En Argentina han surgido iniciativas cuyo objetivo es restringir el menú de opciones contractuales que pueden ser elegidas por dueños de tierra y arrendatarios agrícolas. Asimismo, y en respuesta a preocupación por la creciente importancia de la soja (que algunos clasifican como...

This paper is about the effect of climate change on Sub-Sahara African (SSA) agricultural production in a post-colonial setting. While agricultural production certainly is the result of a multi-dimensional process (influenced by diverse branches of politics, by technology, and also by trade...

The paper investigates spatial changes in cultivation and land use of wheat, maize and oilseed in Hungarian agriculture using different methods to measure these changes. The results suggest that spatial structure of crop productions has remained fairly stable during analysed period. The spatial...

Die jüngsten Entwicklungen auf den Agrarrohstoff- sowie Energiemärkten mit signifikant ansteigenden Preisen werfen verschiedene Fragen für Landwirte sowie für die Agrarpolitik auf. Ein Teil der Entwicklung wird auf die jüngsten Veränderungen der Rahmenbedingungen für die...

Die Pachtpreise in den neuen Bundesländern liegen deutlich unter denen im früheren Bundesgebiet. Nach der neoklassischen Theorie müssten die Pachtpreisunterschiede alleine durch die ökonomische Wertgrenzproduktivität der Flächen zu erklären sein. Einer der Wegbereiter der...