This paper identifies some of the main determinants of exports in Fiji. A single equation model for exports is developed in which trading partner income and relative prices play a central role. The underlying conceptual framework is an imperfect substitution model, in which the key assumption is that exports are not perfect substitutes for domestic goods in importing countries. A distinguishing...

The FADN (farm accountancy data network) provides farm accountancy data to determine and analyse income of agricultural holdings. The underlying data base has to be prepared for properly assessing the impacts of EU policy changes and market developments on agricultural income. This article presents the FADN data mining tool that reads and converts the given data for analysing the data itself an...

This study applied multi agent simulation to investigate the impact of farm credit (an agricultural land-use change adaptation strategy) on farm household livelihood. General household and land use data were obtained from 186 sampled household. Two household types were identified; the first household type was better-off in terms of land area cultivated and income generated from rain-fed rice. O...

Many rural households in low and middle income countries continue to rely on small-scale agriculture as their primary source of income. In the absence of irrigation, incomes arrive only once or twice per year and have to cover consumption and input needs until the subsequent harvest. We develop a model to show that frictions in capital market access not only undermine households’ ability to smo...

This paper explores the redistributive effect of classical horizontal inequities induced by agricultural support policy. Within farm type horizontal inequity (HI) is associated with differences in the level of support received by farms of a given type and level of pre-support income, whereas between farm type HI arises from systematic differences in support levels between commodity regimes. The...