Agricultural policies in both Europe and the United States provide commodities with an excessively high and distorted pattern of support. The economic interdependencies of the policies give rise to adverse fiscal and economic costs, which are viewed as disharmonies in the existing policy...

"A Brief Profile of U.S. Agricultural Trade" and "Food for Peace Program and India"

Changes In Canadian Grain and Livestock Policies: Implications for U.S. and Minnesota Agriculture

"Where U.S. Ships Its Agricultural Exports" and "Food and Agricultural Policy in the European Community"

Changing the Rules for Agricultural Trade

Countries cooperate in negotiating treaties. However, treaty compliance is noncooperative; signatories comply with treaties only if compliance leaves them better off than noncompliance. US and EC agricultural policies of 1986 are modeled through a noncooperative game. Bilateral treaties,...

The United States was the first country in the world to explicitly offer intellectual property protection for plant varieties. Beginning in 1930, asexually reproduced plants were afforded plant patent protection, in 1970 sexually propagated plants could be awarded plant variety protection...