Agriculture is an integral part of Africa's economy, but Africa still faces various challenges to increasing production and adding value. The focus of this study is to analyze Africa's agricultural value chain development, review Korea's agricultural value chain development policies on a...

There has been a growing consensus in the national and international aid architecture that sporadic or scattered aid modality should be avoided. This study conducted a comprehensive cluster evaluation on Korea’s agricultural ODA to Rwanda between 2013 and 2017, with two newly devised indexes:...

For political, strategic and cultural reasons, agriculture has a particular significance in Korea. How have agricultural policies evolved in Korea in the last two decades? What are the effects of the 1997 crisis on the agricultural sector and on agricultural policy implementation? Drawing on the...

The story of agricultural policy in Northeast Asia over the past 50 years illustrates the dramatic changes that can occur in distortions to agricultural incentives faced by producers and consumers at different stages of economic development. In this study of Japan, the Republic of Korea (the...

Farmer and public roles in livestock disease management -- Economic determinants of farmer decision-making related to animal disease -- Insights from behavioural economics into farmer livestock disease management -- Issues of livestock disease management beyond the farm: Collective action, the...

Management of farm animal diseases is increasingly important in view of the threats they pose to farm incomes and sometimes even to the viability of farm enterprises, wildlife and humans. This report analyses the incentives for individual farmers to manage such risks and the governments' role to...

Recent analyses of the extension of the GATT-WTO trade regime to agriculture and other sectors emphasize the secular decline of nation--state power. New forms of global regulation, it is argued, make it difficult for the state to intervene effectively to counter sectoral displacement threats....