Previous studies of the effects of agricultural trade policy reform have treated internal policies for supply-managed commodities as exogenous. In the authors' model, however, quotas on imports, are chosen jointly with domestic production quotas to balance total welfare and its distribution...

This paper examines the importance of monetary macroeconomic variables on Canadian agricultural prices using vector autoregressive modeling. The research results suggest that U.S. monetary macroeconomic policy, as represented by the U.S./world exchange rate, is the most significant monetary...

Beginning in 1971, initial payments for Canadian Wheat Board grains were announced prior to planting. The intention was to influence producer expectations and, hence, crop supply. Using a novel estimation procedure designed to conserve degrees of freedom, it is concluded that the new information...

The current ACIAR (Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research) guidelines for impact assessment of agricultural development projects see impact assessment as being useful for both accountability to stakeholders and as a learning tool to find out what works, what doesn’t work and...

Sweet potato is by far the most important staple food in Papua New Guinea. While much is consumed as a subsistence crop, it is also an important income earner for many small holder farmers in the Highlands of PNG. Of the Highlands sweet potato sold, about 90 percent is traded informally on open...