Global Environmental Change and Agriculture offers a comprehensive perspective on the causes, consequences and possible policy solutions for climatic change as we move into the twenty-first century. It assesses the impact of potential future global climate change on agriculture and the need to...

Genetically modified (GM) foods have been engulfed in considerable controversy, and the early optimism has been dampened. Information issues—labeling and asymmetric information—are central to the GM-food debate. Furthermore, it is important to understand the reaction in developed countries to...

Genetically modified (GM) foods have been engulfed in considerable controversy, and the early optimism has been dampened. Information issues--labeling and asymmetric information--are central to the GM-food debate. Furthermore, it is important to understand the reaction in developed countries to...

Over the past thirty-five years, the U.S. adult obesity rate has more than doubled from roughly 15% to 35%, reflecting a general diffusion of obesity across all segments of the adult population (USDHHS). Obesity is a concern because it increases the risk for cardiovascular diseases, diabetes,...

The monetarist model of inflation is tested with quarterly data over the period 1960‐1983 from six African countries: Egypt, Ghana, Morocco, Nigeria, Sudan and Tunisia. The role of foreign factors in the inflationary process is examined in the model, the lag length is determined, the issue of...

We examine the concomitant claims that agricultural land can be regarded as a fixed factor of production and that rents derived from government policies accrue only to landowners. Characteristics of the long-run, equilibrium relation between farmland rental payments and government policies...