Farmland is the main asset of the US agricul-tural sector's balance sheet, accounting for an
average of 68% of US agricultural assets be-tween 1960 and 2001. This is important for at …

The first theme addressed in this paper is agricultural asset performance. The low rate of
return on agricultural assets has been of particular interest to policy makers. From a market …

This book provides a broad introduction to the economics of food and agriculture. Chapters
2-8 address, respectively: the demand side of the world food economy (how population …

Purpose–The aim of this study is to use a financial approach based on the Du Pont
expansion to investigate the impact of demographics, specialization, tenure, vertical …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to use the DuPont expansion to examine those factors
underlying differences in (rates of) return on different crop portfolios over space (ten regions) …

US farm commodity support programs encompass nearly three quarters of a century and
three quarters of a trillion taxpayer dollars. One dividend from that effort is to learn lessons …

Based on option value theory, we develop a theoretical model to assess the dollar
compensation required for the conversion to organic farming. Our empirical model is a …

Import-dependent arid Arab micro-states such as those in the Persian Gulf are particularly
vulnerable to food-security risk. Among the many remedial policy suggestions, some …

This study examines the risk and returns to owning United States farmland. State, regional,
and national farmland returns from 1998 to 2018 are analyzed via the capital asset pricing …

Import-dependent arid Arab micro states such as those in the Persian Gulf are particularly
vulnerable to food-security risk. Among the many remedial policy suggestions is some …