A model of adverse selection and moral hazard in agri-environmental schemes is developed based on the input quota mechanism of Moxey <roman>et al.</roman> (<roman>Journal of Agricultural Economics,</roman> Vol. 50, (1999) pp. 187-202) and Ozanne <roman>et al.</roman> (<roman>European Review of Agricultural Economics,</roman> Vol. 28, (2001) pp. 329-347),...

This note analyses the design of agri-environmental schemes for risk-averse producers whose input usage is only observable by costly monitoring. The scheme penalises producers in proportion to input use in excess of a quota. A striking result is that if the scheme is designed in such a way that...

This study compares estimates of technical efficiency obtained from the stochastic frontier approach and the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach using farm-level survey data for rice farmers in Bangladesh. Technical inefficiency effects are modelled as a function of farm-specific...

NELUP was a five-year academic research project into interdisciplinary river catchment modelling. The experience of staff involved offers useful insights into the intellectual and practical problems associated with interdisciplinary catchment management research and the dissemination and...

Nous explorons les ressources des jeunes ruraux dans l’est du Burundi après la guerre. En combinant des idées à partir des études agraires et des études sur la jeunesse nous défendons qu’une approche générationnelle assiste à exposer les problèmes structurels de la reproduction...