Montero (2022) explores a discontinuity in a land reform in El Salvador and reports two main findings. First, relative to outside-owned haciendas operated by contract workers, the productivity of worker-owned cooperatives is higher for staple crops and lower for cash-crop. Second, cooperative...

We look at the effects of rainfall forecasts and realized rainfall on equilibrium agricultural wages over the course of the agricultural production cycle. We show theoretically that a forecast of good weather can lower wages in the planting stage, by lowering ex ante out-migration, and can...

We report the results of an uncertainty decomposition analysis of the social cost of carbon as estimated by FUND, a model that has a more detailed representation of the economic impact of climate change than any other model. Some of the parameters particularly influence impacts in the short run...

This paper projects global food supply and demand to the year 2025, with a particular emphasis on Asia. Technological change is found to be the critical factor in determining whether or not food prices will preserve their long-run, downward trend, as well as the likely patterns of trade and...

This paper investigates the impacts of climate change on the People's Republic of China's (PRC) grain output using rural household survey data. We highlight the regional differences of impacts by estimating output elasticities for different grain crops and different regions. Our results indicate...

The impacts of climate change on agricultural production in the People's Republic of China (PRC) are significant, and differ across regions and crops. The substantial regional differences will induce changes in the agricultural interregional trade pattern. In this paper, we investigate the...

The emergence of biofuel as a renewable energy source offers opportunities for climate change mitigation and greater energy security for many countries. At the same time, biofuel represents the possibility of substitution between energy and food. For developing countries like India, which...

Auf dem so genannten Krisengipfel der Staats- und Regierungschefs der EU-Mitgliedsländer im Sommer dieses Jahres kam starke Kritik vor allem vom britischen Premier Tony Blair an den "hohen Agrarsubventionen" auf. Auch wenn die Frage des EU-Agrarhaushaltes mittlerweile wieder in den Hintergrund...

Diversifizierung in der landwirtschaftlichen Praxis heißt, neue Betriebszweige aufzubauen, die nicht originär der landwirtschaftlichen Produktion zuzurechnen sind, die jedoch auf typische Ressourcen eines landwirtschaftlichen Betriebes zurückgreifen. Auf einzelbetrieblicher Ebene wird der...