<heading id="h1" level="1" implicit="yes" format="display">summary</heading><title type="document">Riding the Roller-Coaster - What's Next for US Farm Policy?</title>Changes in the balance of political power and in budgetary constraints create a roller- coaster in US agricultural policy with shifts between more and less government intervention, higher and lower spending, and more or less...

We analyze the impact of continuing the existing U.S. sugar program, replacing it with a standard program, and implementing the standard program with multilateral trade liberalization. Under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), duty-free sugar imports from Mexico could undermine the...

Despite the failure of the U.N. Copenhagen climate conference in December 2009 efforts are continuing to reach agreement on binding global commitments on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. At the same time, efforts are still underway to conclude the Doha Round of trade negotiations through the...