This paper aims to examine the sources of agricultural stagnation/deterioration in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) by contrasting it with the agricultural growth experience in East Asia.

Despite enormous changes in factors affecting milk supply and demand, total fluid consumption has been essentially constant since 1944 in the U.S. (since 1961 in the E.U.) Classical economic analysis cannot explain persistently constant consumption in dramatically changing markets. However, this...

This article solves and characterizes optimal decision rules to invest in irreversible land improvements conditional on land tenure insecurity. Economic model is a normative dynamic programming model with known parameter for the one period returns and transition equations. The decision rules are...

The "concept of the co-operative identity" (consisting from the definition, aims and functions of cooperatives and the so-termed co-operative principles) serves as a general theoretical background for the economic analysis of agricultural co-operation. The development of Dutch dairy...

This article provides an overview of the provisions on geographical indications contained in the TRIPS Agreement and how they came about in the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations, which took place from 1986 to 1994 and resulted in the establishment of the World Trade Organization....