The role of widows in the artisan-agrarian urban society in East-Central Europe was usually narrowed down to the position of provisional manager of the bequeathed property until a male heir reached adulthood. However, some individual stories show us that women often times were also very capable...

Over the last two decades, three countries in the Black Sea Region—Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan—became global leaders in grain production and trade, and replaced the USA and France as the most previous largest wheat exporting countries. In this study we investigate world wheat price...

Britain's repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 was the signature trade policy event of the nineteenth century. This paper provides a quantitative general equilibrium evaluation of the repeal on sectoral output and employment, factor prices and income distribution, international trade and the terms of...

Russia has moved from being a large importer of grain, soybeans, and soybean meal during the late Soviet period to a major grain exporter. The country has become the world's top wheat exporter, supplying 20-23 percent of total world exports in 2017-2018. This article examines how Russia's...

Getreide ist ein wichtiges Grundnahrungsmittel. In dieser Dissertation analysiere ich gemeinsam mit meinen Koautoren, wie Mensch und Natur Getreideproduktion und -handel in Deutschland zu verschiedenen Zeiten beeinflussen. Im ersten Papier entwickeln wir einen Ansatz, um die gegenwärtige...

"A revelatory global history shows how cheap American grain toppled the world's largest empires To understand the rise and fall of empires, we must follow the paths traveled by grain-along rivers, between ports, and across seas. In Oceans of Grain, historian Scott Reynolds Nelson reveals how the...

"For much of the twentieth century, United Grain Growers was one of the major forces in Canadian agriculture. Founded in 1906, for much of its history UGG worked to give western farmers a “third way” between the competing poles of cooperatives like the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool and the private...

"Over a century, the Canadian prairies went from being the breadbasket of the world to a grain-growing region in a vast, global agri-food system. Magnan traces the causes and consequences of this evolution, from the first transatlantic shipments of wheat to the controversial dismantling of the...

Grain markets of Alemata, Maychew, Mokone, Mekelle and Himora are observed to operate in highly inefficient market structure, with very low level of trust at meso and macro level. As result the marking system is less developed and less efficient in terms of creating space and time utility. In...

Evolución económica de la producción de granos, 1980-2010 / José Pierri y Ezequiel Orlando -- Evolución comparada de los sectores agroindustriales de Argentina y Brasil, 1990-2010 / Susana Merlo y Mercedes Muro de Nadal -- Análisis de costos comparados de la producción agrícola en...

Defying expectations, a storage crunch failed to materialize at district elevators last fall.

"The current global agreement governing food aid—the Food Aid Convention (FAC)—will expire in 2007. It has come under heavy criticism as has the diffuse set of broader food aid governance institutions that has emerged in the last 50 years. These institutions are characterized by overlapping...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on Usage -- Units of Weight and Measure -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Founding and Feeding an Imperial City -- Chapter 2. Selling Flour in St. Petersburg -- Chapter 3. Sources of Supply -- Chapter 4. Production -- Chapter 5. Commerce -- Chapter 6....

This paper summarizes recent empirical research on the determinants of subjective well-being. Results from national and international samples suggest that measures of social capital, including especially the corollary measures of specific and general trust, have substantial effects on well-being...

This paper summarizes recent empirical research on the determinants of subjective well-being. Results from national and international samples suggest that measures of social capital, including especially the corollary measures of specific and general trust, have substantial effects on well-being...