AGR/CA/APM(2001)24/FINAL 2 Foreword Governments in OECD countries intervene in agriculture with a view to achieving a wide range of economic and social objectives, in particular the improvement of farm household incomes. This study investigates how efficient some of the most commonly used policy interventions — referred to as the transfer efficiency of support measures with respect to income — ...

This paper uses real options analysis, specifically a hybrid Monte Carlo simulation – decision tree analysis as well as a binomial tree analysis, to look at optimal decisionmaking for investment by a small community wind farm under uncertainty. In particular, the uncertainty due to forecasting of electricity prices and the potential for carbon pricing are considered. Two options are considered:...

the study on gender and net farm income of cassava-based farmers under individual land tenure system was done in abia state of nigeria. the main objective was to determine the net farm income (nfi) and the benefit cost ratio (bcr) of the cassava farmers by gender vis-aviz their income levels as well as food security in the state. a multi-stage random sampling technique was adopted while data we...