gone into Government stocks. While supporting local farmers, the Government also hoped to drive up world prices by … withholding supplies from the world market and make a speculative profit by selling the stocks at a higher price. It is now clear …, the stocks are starting to spoil, and there has been an upsurge in smuggling to take advantage of inflated prices …

, Vietnam, Laos, and Indonesia. In an impact assessment study of all 18 ACIAR projects, Lindner and McLeod (2008) calculated … often seem to receive insufficient attention. Notwithstanding some 20 years of research on the development of low-cost … demonstrated that the use of these sprays will be widely adopted as a cost-effective alternative to existing practices in …

and an assessment of the effectiveness of these controls. This is followed by an analysis of the role of local government … and signs of erosion. Alternative policy approaches are identified and evaluated using a cost-benefit analysis framework …. It is envisaged that this preliminary cost-benefit analysis will identify policy aspects requiring future in …

(quarantine zones, fungicides, spore destruction). The relative importance of each of these cost components is measured for a …