How Prices and Macroeconomic Policies Affect Agricultural Supply and the Environment
Author | : Nlandu Mamingi |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Agricultural prices |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Nlandu Mamingi |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Agricultural prices |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Diao, Xinshen, ed. |
Publisher | : Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 2020-12-07 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0896293807 |
Agricultural mechanization in Africa south of the Sahara — especially for small farms and businesses — requires a new paradigm to meet the needs of the continent’s evolving farming systems. Can Asia, with its recent success in adopting mechanization, offer a model for Africa? An Evolving Paradigm of Agricultural Mechanization Development analyzes the experiences of eight Asian and five African countries. The authors explore crucial government roles in boosting and supporting mechanization, from import policies to promotion policies to public good policies. Potential approaches presented to facilitating mechanization in Africa include prioritizing market-led hiring services, eliminating distortions, and developing appropriate technologies for the African context. The role of agricultural mechanization within overall agricultural and rural transformation strategies in Africa is also discussed. The book’s recommendations and insights should be useful to national policymakers and the development community, who can adapt this knowledge to local contexts and use it as a foundation for further research.
Author | : Matthias Kalkuhl |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 620 |
Release | : 2016-04-12 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 3319282018 |
This book provides fresh insights into concepts, methods and new research findings on the causes of excessive food price volatility. It also discusses the implications for food security and policy responses to mitigate excessive volatility. The approaches applied by the contributors range from on-the-ground surveys, to panel econometrics and innovative high-frequency time series analysis as well as computational economics methods. It offers policy analysts and decision-makers guidance on dealing with extreme volatility.
Author | : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
Publisher | : Food & Agriculture Org. |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2021-07-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9251346089 |
The Agricultural Outlook 2021-2030 is a collaborative effort of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. It brings together the commodity, policy and country expertise of both organisations as well as input from collaborating member countries to provide an annual assessment of the prospects for the coming decade of national, regional and global agricultural commodity markets. The publication consists of 11 Chapters; Chapter 1 covers agricultural and food markets; Chapter 2 provides regional outlooks and the remaining chapters are dedicated to individual commodities.
Author | : Nicoletta Batini |
Publisher | : Island Press |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2021-06-08 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1642831611 |
The Economics of Sustainable Food details the true cost of food for people and the planet. It illustrates how to transform our broken system, alleviating its severe financial and human burden. The key is smart macroeconomic policy that moves us toward methods that protect the environment like regenerative land and sea farming, low-impact urban farming, and alternative protein farming, and toward healthy diets. The book's multidisciplinary team of authors lay out detailed fiscal and trade policies, as well as structural reforms, to achieve those goals. Chapters discuss strategies to make food production sustainable, nutritious, and fair, ranging from taxes and spending to education, labor market, health care, and pension reforms, alongside regulation in cases where market incentives are unlikely to work or to work fast enough. The authors carefully consider the different needs of more and less advanced economies, balancing economic development and sustainability goals. Case studies showcase successful strategies from around the world, such as taxing foods with a high carbon footprint, financing ecosystems mapping and conservation to meet scientific targets for healthy biomes permanency, subsidizing sustainable land and sea farming, reforming health systems to move away from sick care to preventive, nutrition-based care, and providing schools with matching funds to purchase local organic produce.--Amazon.
Author | : Nicoletta Batini |
Publisher | : International Monetary Fund |
Total Pages | : 35 |
Release | : 2019-02-26 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1484397967 |
France is the top agricultural producer in the European Union (EU), and agriculture plays a prominent role in the country’s foreign trade and intermediate exchanges. Reflecting production volumes and methods, the sector, however, also generates significant negative environmental and public health externalities. Recent model simulations show that a well-designed shift in production and consumption to make the former sustainable and align the latter with recommended values can curb these considerably and generate large macroeconomic gains. I propose a policy toolkit in line with the government’s existing sectoral policies that can support this transition.
Author | : OECD |
Publisher | : OECD Publishing |
Total Pages | : 125 |
Release | : 2021-05-17 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 926436711X |
Over the past decades, governments have gradually adopted more rigorous environmental policies to tackle challenges associated with pressing environmental issues, such as climate change. The ambition of these policies is, however, often tempered by their perceived negative effects on the economy.
Author | : Inderjit Singh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Agricultural industries |
ISBN | : |
This book presents the basic model of an agricultural household that underlies most of the case studies undertaken so far. The model assumes that households are price-takers and is therefore recursive. The decisions modeled include those affecting production and the demand for inputs and those affecting consumption and the supply of labor. Comparative results on selected elasticities are presented for a number of economies. The empirical significance of the approach is demonstrated in a comparison of models that treat production and consumption decisions separately and those in which the decisionmaking process is recursive. The book summarizes the implications of agricultural pricing policy for the welfare of farm households, marketed surplus, the demand for nonagricultural goods and services, the rural labor market, budget revenues, and foreign exchange earnings. In addition, it is shown that the basic model can be extended in order to explore the effects of government policy on crop composition, nutritional status, health, saving, and investment and to provide a more comprehensive analysis of the effects on budget revenues and foreign exchange earnings. Methodological topics, primarily the data requirements of the basic model and its extensions, along with aggregation, market interaction, uncertainty, and market imperfections are discussed. The most important methodological issues - the question of the recursive property of these models - is also discussed.
Author | : OECD |
Publisher | : OECD Publishing |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2021-01-11 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9264967834 |
Food systems around the world face a triple challenge: providing food security and nutrition for a growing global population; supporting livelihoods for those working along the food supply chain; and contributing to environmental sustainability. Better policies hold tremendous promise for making progress in these domains.
Author | : Jean-Paul Chavas |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2014-10-14 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 022612892X |
"The conference was organized by the three editors of this book and took place on August 15-16, 2012 in Seattle."--Preface.