Over the past decade, the increasing power and reliability of microcomputers and the development of sophisticated software designed specificallyfor use with them has led to significant changes in the way quantitative food policy analysis is conducted. These changes cover most aspects of...

The volatility of agricultural markets has increased remarkably in recent years. In spite of this, the way in whichsupply chain actors perceive market volatility has only rarely been analyzed. This paper seeks to close thisresearch gap by presenting empirical findings about how the volatility of...

This article is concerned with the methodological question of frontier production functions estimation for agriculture, and the appropriateness of regression quantiles, as a useful semi-parametric approach. Better insights are reached using the proposed methodology that provides robust farm...

Applied general equilibrium modelling represents a powerful tool for assessing future likely economic changes due to upcoming or hypothesised policy shocks such as those brought about by EU enlargement. It entails the main advantage of considering the complex simultaneous linkages, interactions...

This statistical reference presents current and historic analytical data on U.S. foreign trade in agricultural products. Detailed tables over commodity and country information for calendar years 1980 and 1981, including value, quantity, and principal markets of agricultural imports and exports;...

This publication presents detailed statistics of U.S. foreign trade in agricultural products by country during fiscal years 1978 and 1979. It updates U.S. Foreign Agricultural Trade Statistical Report, Fiscal Year 1978! Supplementary Tables (unnumbered) issued in September 1979, and supplements...

This statistical reference presents current and historic analytical data on U.S. foreign trade in agricultural products. Detailed tables cover commodity and country information for fiscal years 1979 and 1980~ including value, quantity, and principal markets of agricultural imports and experts;...

This paper analyses the effects of climate change and trade liberalization on Turkish Economy between 2008 and 2099 by using a recursive dynamic CGE model. Results of a crop-irrigation requirement model are used to generate climate change shocks. The results suggest that the effects of climate...

This paper aims to analyze the effects of climate change on Brazilian agriculture considering irrigation adoption as an adaptation strategy. Investigation on how climatic variability influences irrigation adoption was performed as well as whether this adaptation measure actually reduces...