The agricultural and food sector is an ideal case for investigating the political economy of
public policies. Many of the policy developments in this sector since the 1950s have been …

Recent globalization has been characterized by a decline in the costs of cross-border trade
in farm and other products. It has been driven primarily by the information and …

Prices of grains and other storable are char-acterized by long periods in the doldrums,
punctuated by short but intense price spikes (Deaton and Laroque 1992). Those spikes are …

The two-way link between improved nutrition and higher income is well known. Higher
income allows people to obtain a more varied and nutritious diet. Higher income is …

As China becomes more industrial and urbanized, it is likely to become more dependent
over time on imports of (especially land-intensive) farm products, most notably livestock …

This article reviews innovative research that has emerged in recent years, both in the
general economics literature and as applied to agricultural and food policies. There have …

Major land reform programs have reallocated property in more than one-third of the world's
countries in the last century and impacted over one billion people. But only rarely have these …

A study of distortions to agricultural incentives in 18 developing countries from 1960–84, by
Krueger, Schiff, and Valdés (1988; 1991), found that policies in most of those developing …

Trade policy reforms in recent decades have sharply reduced the distortions that were
harming agriculture in developing countries, yet global trade in farm products continues to …

Earnings from farming in many low‐income countries have been depressed by a pro‐urban
bias in own‐country policies, as well as by governments of richer countries favouring their …