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 …

economies, agriculture, and people. Findings suggest that because of the climate change impacts on agricultural production … (yield change) and international food prices, unless proper mitigation measures are implemented, by 2050 Brazil and Mexico …

This paper assesses whether tractor investment is a rational and profitable decision for farmers using firm investment … for farmers. Based on the hypothesis that owning a tractor and hiring tractor services are not necessarily perfect … substitutes for farmers with relatively large farm sizes, this paper assesses whether mechanization services can be profitable for …

This paper identifies the key causal factors behind farmers' marketing decisions in Mozambique. A two-step decision … making process is modeled. Farmers decide, first, whether or not to participate in the market and, second, how much to market … farmers previously not in the market appears more important for total sales than focusing economic policy on those already in …

enhanced if inequalities in access to natural capital, especially to land, are addressed as well. Agriculture is critical for …