This paper summarizes the evolutionary trends in US farm policy that have culminated in the 2014 farm bill, describes the new farm bill programs in depth, and highlights the key policy issues that arise and will play out over its planned five-year duration. This new US farm bill eliminates fixed...

First paragraph of Chapter: In recent decades, Mozambique has undergone enormous political and economic transformations. Once a colony of Portugal, the country moved to a phase of socialism after gaining independence in 1975, and then from 1986 the government initiated a program of economic...