As a kind of advanced productive forces, the advantage and potential of E-commerce could not be ignored for upgrading the industrialization degree of agriculture, adjusting the agricultura structure, reducing the transaction cost of agricultural products and enlarging the market sale range and channels of agricultural products. This paper analyzes the present status and problems of application ...

This paper analyses the economic effects of different magnitudes of tariff cuts, different tariff cutting formulas, the implications of tariff capping as well as different numbers and width of tariff bands in the market access pillar of the Doha Round agricultural negotiations. The simulations are conducted with an extended version of the GTAP model and an extended version of the GTAP data base...

This paper draws upon development economics theory, demographic projections, and empirical evidence to consider the likely consequences of the HIV/AIDS pandemic for the agricultural sector of the hardest-hit countries of Eastern and Southern Africa. We identify four processes that have been underemphasized in previous analysis: 1) the momentum of long-term population growth rates; 2) substantia...

A proper analysis of the consequences of an Austrian participation in the European Common Market for the domestic farming sector requires a simultaneous consideration of intraand intersectoral effects. Simulation experiments with a model link between a macroeconometric model and an econometrically estimated agricultural sector model indicate that the migration process out of the agricultural se...

Exposure to pesticides poses a serious, albeit largely incalculable, threat to the health of agricultural workers worldwide. Incremental reforms to the regulatory status quo at national level may somewhat mitigate the problem. However, this paper argues that greater opportunities for improving agricultural occupational safety and health and pesticide safety lie outside the boundaries of the tra...

Private sector research and development (R&D) in food processing has seen a growing share of agricultural R&D. This paper analyzes market and technological links between farmer-entrepreneurs and food processing firms. It is shown that processing sector R&D tends to display explosive cycles. To avoid explosive cycles, the processing sector sets the R&D growth path and its target. Dynamic adjustm...

By all accounts, Bank, Pakistan faces increased difficulties in expanding its agricultural sector. For its part, the government is gradually withdrawing from its historical policy of direct intervention and adopting a more market oriented strategy. In this strategy, the private sector will be expected to play the major role in providing capital to the agricultural sector, with government’s rema...

Currently Chinese agriculture is facing a serious challenge of the natural risk, market risk and information risk, etc. At the same time, agricultural risk management is under the constraints of concept, capital investment, information sharing, and legal conditions. From the perspective of the information integrated services, this paper made efforts to provide some information and strategy supp...

As agricultural products move from being economic commodities to quality-differentiated goods, price dispersion within specific markets increases and implicit subsidies from high quality producers to low quality producers are removed. This paper examines how these distributional effects can influence patterns of support and opposition to changes in marketing arrangements. The simple model devel...