This paper examines producer- and consumer-protection measures for a set of food commodities in three Russian oblasts. Secondary data for the period 1992-95 show that agricultural producers were taxed but at a diminishing rate. Secondary sources for 1995, supplemented by a comprehensive...

Russia's 1998 financial crisis, although a result of home-made causes, was triggered by effects from international financial crises. In the agro-food economy, many households reacted to declining real income and rapidly rising prices by stockpiling food to meet short-term needs. In the medium...