In this paper we analyze the impact of the EU multi-level co-financing system on regional policy-making and priority setting taking the case of the agri-environmental program of Saxony-Anhalt in Germany. The implications of several co-financing scenarios are analyzed and compared to respective...

Many policy makers and businesses erroneously believe that rural populations, particularly in Africa, have no margin for savings over consumption needs. This study examines the potential for financial savings in rural Mozambican households by looking at the determinants of savings behavior. An...

Farm-level diversification involves adding income-generating activities at the farm household level, including livestock, local non-farm and off-farm pursuits undertaken by farm people. The objective of this paper is to consider questions arising from an apparent inconsistency. In this respect,...

The need for more comprehensive development models to capture the behavioural dynamics of peasants in subsistence economies was emphaiszed at the 1976 IAAE Conference (Deaton; Mbithi; and Shapiro). This emphasis is consistent with Polanyi's claim that as a social being, man acts to "safeguard...

Multiyear dynamic spatial models of the U.S. grain, oilseed, and livestock (GOL) economy show how to stabilize prices in this part of the world food economy. The standard GOL model can be operated at modest cost, well within the limits of previous price support and storage programmes operated by...

Rural change often involves altering the combination of durable assets owned by an economic unit. Rural change may involve the acquisition of additional durables, the disposal of current durables, or using retained durables in a different manner. The current theories of production, investment,...

The Credit Agricole Mutuel in France, the Deutsche Genossenschaftsbank in the Federal Republic of Germany, and the Rait't'eisen-Boerenleenbank in the Netherlands have many points in common, or at least many similarities: their history, nature, development in an agricultural and rural environment...