This report describes policies that affect the agricultural sector in 25 countries in the Western Hemisphere, including policies that affect commodity and input prices, the activities of parastatals (government-owned companies), and the integration of economies in the Western Hemisphere. To...

This report presents a comprehensive database on the agricultural sector of the European Conununity (EC). It contains time-series data (1960--85) on prices I, and the supply and utilization of agricultural conunodities for lv count~ies of the EC. The major grains, oilseeds, livestock. and dairy...

Monthly temperature and precipitation by State and farm production region are presented for the years 1950-84. A weighted-average process is used to aggregate across the climatic divisions within the 48 contiguous States. Two sets of aggregation weights are used: geographic areas and areas of...

This bulletin reports estimates of producer and consumer subsidy equivalents for 48 different agricultural commodities and products in 30 countries and the European Community. These estimates are measures of explicit and implicit subsidies or taxes on producers or consumers caused by government...

Egypt is one of the world's largest foad importers, annually consuming over $4 billion worth of imported agricultural commodities to feed a population of 48 million. The import bill is growing rapidly as population and consumption ~rowth rates exceed that of agricultural production. Egypt was...