After an extended process of reform the European Union has introduced direct payments tofarmers which are decoupled from production decisions as a central element of its CommonAgricultural Policy. They are also referred to as Single Farm Payments. In this paper weanalyze the production and trade...

This paper has benefited greatly from a discussion of an earlier version with the participantsof the first Humboldt Forum for Food and Agriculture in Davos, Switzerland in March 2009.Research has been made possible in part by a research grant from BASF SE – The ChemicalCompany. The first two...

The economic, political and climatic conditions in which farmers around the world have tomake their production and investment decisions are changing dramatically. This studyanalyses the driving forces of changes in agricultural world markets and their implications forEuropean Union agriculture...

The paper provides a methodology which is suitable for the analysis of the socialcost of disease and the benefits and cost of health intervention by integrating public healthanalysis and economics. The approach developed in the paper is applied to food-bornediarrhea in Rwanda. The results...

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union has been in a process of reform since the early 1990s. As a result of reforms, agricultural market regulations have become more liberal and direct payments have been introduced which are to a large extent decoupled from production. In...

At the UN World Food Summit in Rome in 1996 an ambitious goal was formulated, namely to cut in half the number of malnourished people in 1995 by 2015. It has now become clear that this objective is no longer within reach. In fact, the opposite is happening. The number of malnourished people is...

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union has been in a process of reform since the early 1990s. As a result of reforms, agricultural market regulations have become more liberal and direct payments have been introduced which are to a large extent decoupled from production. In...

Agriculture in many industrialized countries is heavily subsidized.1 The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union provides subsidies in a variety of ways. They include agricultural producer price support (by means of import restrictions, export subsidies, domestic production...

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)of the European Union has been in a process ofreform for quite some time. As a result of reforms,agricultural market regulations have become moreliberal and direct payments which are to a largeextent decoupled from production have beenintroduced. In this...