The full benefits of agricultural biotechnology will only be realized if consumers and food manufacturers consider it safe and beneficial. Although few internationally comparable public opinion surveys have been conducted on this issue, the available evidence suggests that public attitudes...

Over the last two decades, millet prices in Niger have enjoyed periods of spectacular increase during which they seem to go well above their fundamental value. These episodes of price bursts followed by rapid reversals could be attributed to the presence of rational speculative bubbles....

Farming is the subject of frequent criticism as regards the environment, food quality and sustainability. Farmers, technical progress and policies often bear the brunt of accusations. However, the observed evolution has also been induced by economic determinants and by the position of...

In a contribution to the sparse literature on the impacts on consumers of quarantine restrictions, an innovative approach to analysing the effects of these policies on the prices and quality of imported products is proposed. Specifically, various index num- ber decompositions at different...

Als Reaktion auf den starken Preisverfall auf den internationalen und nationalen Milchmärkten wurden von der EU-Kommission im September 2016 zwei Hilfsmaßnahmen beschlossen und umgesetzt. Im Rahmen des EU-Milchmengenverringerungsprogramms wurde Milcherzeugern eine Beihilfe für die...

This study examines the nexus among production diversity, market participation, and consumption diversity in smallholder households. It identifies the main factors that influence smallholder farm households' decision to diversify production and evaluates the effect of production diversity and...

National early warning systems of Sahelian countries are mainly based on biophysics models to predict agricultural production shortages and prevent food crisis. The objective of this paper is to show that cereal market prices also bring useful information on future food availability that could...

In the long run-- over the past four decades--improvements in food security in Indonesia have generally been driven by pro-poor economic growth and a successful Green Revolution, led by high-yielding rice varieties, massive investments in rural infrastructure, including irrigation, and ready...

Als Reaktion auf den starken Preisverfall auf den internationalen und nationalen Milchmärkten wurden von der EU-Kommission im September 2016 zwei Hilfsmaßnahmen beschlossen und umgesetzt. Im Rahmen des EU-Milchmengenverringerungsprogramms wurde Milcherzeugern eine Beihilfe für die...