On December 15, 2010, President Obama signed the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 (HHFKA)1 into law. It was hailed as a bipartisan success and a significant reform of childhood nutrition policy. Indeed, on its surface the law appears to make a significant shift away from the food paradigm of...

This paper investigates the influence of three federal policies often conjectured to have some of the most pronounced effects on food markets: subsidized crop insurance; the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP); and ethanol promotion. Results indicate that removing subsidized crop...

The book analyses agricultural economics and food policy in New Zealand, where farming produce has been by far the main export commodity. Farming exports' importance, together with the need to diversify exports away from a former colonial relationship with the UK, makes liberalising agricultural...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Coming Together to Work Collectively -- Chapter 3: Struggling Towards a Unified Organisation -- Chapter 4: Emerging from wartime conditions -- Chapter 5: Impact nationally and internationally -- Chapter 6: Farming anxieties and a more favourable Government...