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....

This Working paper provides an update of an earlier paper entitled "A Profile of Employment in the Agri-Food Sector" (WP No. 1-97). The previous paper covered the period from 1984-1995; in this paper information for 1996 and 1997 has been added. The information provided in this report is derived...

Depuis les annees 1993-1994 en Afrique de l'Ouest, la hausse des prix des cereales et l'explosion des prix du betail et des viandes s'inscrivent dans une tendance regionale, malgre une ampleur et des rythmes differents. On peut desormais se demander si un nouveau palier est atteint dans le...