theoretical curiosity. Wealthy farmers have higher levels of output per hectare because they use more labor per hectare. Insurance …

contractual arrangement between a pollutee - a bottler of mineral water, Vittel - and several polluting farmers. We analyze the …

In this article we adapt Burtless and Hausman's (1978) methodology in order to estimate farmers' demand for irrigation … observed and unobserved technological heterogeneity among farmers. Employing micro panel data documenting irrigation levels and … prices in 185 Israeli agricultural communities in the period 1992-1997, we estimate water demand elasticity at -0.3 in the …

individual farmers' decisions to control elephants is provided. Government policies to assist farmers in coping with the elephant … pest problem are assessed. Appropriate compensation schemes for farmers are seen as potentially more effective for …

Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa discriminated against agriculture to promote industry after independence. The … domestic terms of trade were turned against agriculture by the price fixing of monopoly marketing boards. This policy was … rationing of imported inputs to industry. The region got the worst of both worlds - stagnation in both agriculture and industry …

over space and time, and thereby to obtain new evidence on changes in inputs, outputs, and productivity in U.S. agriculture …. The measures change significantly when we use state-specific rather than national prices and when we allow for changes in …

This article considers whether differences in the structure of agriculture credit markets in France and the United … and British farms, three approaches are used to test the sensitivity of investment to internal finance, an inventory …