experimental plots grown for the Sustainable Agriculture Farming Systems project at the University of California, Davis. Cross … shadow prices for pints of pesticides averaged $23-$37 …

five-year duration. This new US farm bill eliminates fixed direct payments made to farmers since 1996. In place of those … coincide with the deductible on individual farm insurance and losses resulting from multiple years of low prices or declining … risks, farmers are given choices among several program options. The strengthened safety net will result in less certain …

The development debate in Africa south of the Sahara is often cast as “agriculture versus nonagriculture.” Yet this … literature disaggregating the growth–poverty relationship in agriculture. Although our estimated elasticities are higher for … agriculture given the importance of farm incomes for the poor, the extent to which this is true varies by country. In fact …