This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model of an agricultural economy in which poor farmers borrow from … rich farmers. Because output is stochastic (we allow for idiosyncratic and aggregate shocks) there may be default ex …

agriculture and land use. A GIS-based hedonic pricing model shows that agricultural open space increases nearby residential … larger impacts. Because they tend to occur together, the negative impacts of animal agriculture and the positive impacts of …

Today, agriculture remains the most distorted sector of the world economy. Therefore, agricultural liberalisation in …

We consider a world in which the mode of food production, foraging or agriculture, is endogenous, and in which … communities (bands) of foragers or farmers. At the lowest levels of technology, equilibrium entails the grand coalition of … to a one-way transition from foraging to agriculture …

the multiple output FA cost function model. Time series and panel (state level) data from U.S. agriculture are used to …

builds on a non-parametric representation of the underlying technology. An application to U.S. agriculture is presented. By …

Small farmers in many tropical developing countries practice swidden agriculture. A key aspect of swidden agriculture … fallow period and to determine the optimal length of this period in swidden agriculture. The authors first construct a … theoretical model of a parcel of forest land that has been cleared for swidden agriculture. It is then shown how the dynamic and …

growth consequences for agriculture in Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines. Despite geographical proximity, similar …