Regional Structure of African Agriculture

Risks Management in African Agriculture

Regional Development in American Agriculture ∗

This paper uses the establishment of federal agricultural experiment stations to provide new evidence on the effects of university research on long-term regional development. Our analysis of county-level agricultural census data from 1870 to 2000 reveals that station establishment increased local crop revenue per acre for 30-40 years, but localization effects do not persist to the present day. ...

The Role of Agriculture in African Development

Please doi:10. Summary. — Widespread rural poverty in Africa and the success of Asia’s Green Revolution suggest that agriculture is a key sector for African development. However, in response to recent skepticism, this paper examines whether the conventional wisdom about agriculture’s contribution to the development process can still be applied to Africa today. We first outline the debate betwee...

Principles, structure and application of dynamic regional sector model of Finnish agriculture

This study presents a dynamic regional sector model for Finnish agriculture (DREMFIA) to be used in evaluating the effects of different agricultural policies on production and agricultural income in Finland. Since agriculture is characterised by the long duration of investments, the economic adjustment to policy changes, like the EU integration and Agenda 2000, is likely to take a long time. Re...

Policies and Productivity Growth in African Agriculture