The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union has been in a process of reform since the early 1990s. As a result of reforms, agricultural market regulations have become more liberal and direct payments have been introduced which are to a large extent decoupled from production. In...

In this article we discuss the determinants of international agricultural market prices andpresent the results of a partial equilibrium model of international agricultural trade withinterconnected markets. The results of the model suggest that the long term trend of decliningreal agricultural...

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union has been in a process of reform since the early 1990s. As a result of reforms, agricultural market regulations have become more liberal and direct payments have been introduced which are to a large extent decoupled from production. In...

Agriculture in many industrialized countries is heavily subsidized.1 The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union provides subsidies in a variety of ways. They include agricultural producer price support (by means of import restrictions, export subsidies, domestic production...

Es wird heute kaum noch ernsthaft bezweifelt, dasssich das globale Klima verändert und dass die Ursachenhierfür vor allem anthropogener Natur sind.Gerade die Energiewirtschaft und der Transportsektorsind als Hauptverursacher in das breite Interesse derÖffentlichkeit gerückt. Den Emissionen...

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)of the European Union has been in a process ofreform for quite some time. As a result of reforms,agricultural market regulations have become moreliberal and direct payments which are to a largeextent decoupled from production have beenintroduced. In this...

Neben Mangelernährung augrund fehlender mene an Nährstoffen zählen qualitative Defizite in der menschlichen Ernährung zu den bedeutendsten Risiken für Krankheit und vorzeitigen Tod in Entwicklungsländern. Wichtige qualitative Risikofaktoren sind die Kontamination von Nahrungsmitteln mit...

In den letzten etwa 130 Jahren hat die Nachfrage nach Nahrungsmitteln weltweit außerordentlichstark zugenommen. Hierfür gibt es vor allem zwei Gründe. Zum einen ist die Weltbevölkerungin diesem Zeitraum sehr schnell gewachsen. Im Jahr 1900 lebten etwa 1,5Milliarden Menschen auf der Welt. Im...

We analyze the economic effects of plant breeding research in Germany. In addition to market effects, for the first time also effects of reduced CO2 emissions due to productivity increases are being quantified. The analysis shows that investments in German plant breeding research in the period...