The present study seeks to address the issues of opening-up of India's wheat imports as well as the relationship between production, government procurement, prices and imports of wheat. We find that wheat production in India has been grown rapidly. The share of wheat in the world's total...

Market liberalization has a profound impact on the structure of economies as well as changes the roles of the public and private sectors and affects innovative capacity of countries. This paper explores the Brazilian experience with wheat market liberalization and the impact on the seed sector....

We develop an extended Nominal Rate of Assistance (NRA) methodology to disentangle the welfare impacts of policies for various interest groups along the value chain (to disaggregate effects within the "producer" and "consumer" umbrellas). We apply our value chain NRA methodology to the case of...

Die großen östlichen "Getreidenationen" Russland, Ukraine und Kasachstan verfügen über erhebliche Ausbaupotenziale im Getreideanbau, deren Nutzung zur weltweiten Ernährungssicherung beitragen könnte. Um diese umsetzen zu können, sind neben dem Abbau von Defiziten in der Infrastruktur vor...

The wheat growing, flour milling and bread baking industries (henceforth, for the sake of brevity, 'the industries') are closely interrelated in various ways. [...] In New Zealand most wheat is grown to be milled into flour, with individual farmers usually contracting directly with particular...