chapter Introducing land reform -- chapter 1 Goals -- chapter 2 Output, efficiency and growth goals: beyond the inverse relationship -- chapter 3 Land reforms: the types, and the classic paradigm -- chapter 4 Tenurial options: Tenancy reform, titling, patrialisation -- chapter 5 The terrible...

As malaria grows more prevalent in the Amazon frontier despite increased expenditures by disease control authorities, national and regional tropical disease control strategies are being called into question. The current crisis involving traditional control/eradication methods has broadened the...

Some have suggested that the US food stamp program (FSP) should be revised with a view to combating obesity among the poor. In this paper, we assess the likely impacts of allowing FSP participants to purchase only healthy foods when using food stamps. Our results indicate that FSP participants...

Many commentators have claimed that farm subsidies have contributed significantly to the "obesity epidemic" by making fattening foods relatively cheap and abundant. But U.S. farm policies have generally small and mixed effects on farm commodity prices, which in turn have even smaller and still...