In this study a Social Accounting Matrix approach is used to analyse the effects of changes in agricultural policies on income distribution. Increasing final demand for agricultural products, and a reduction in agricultural price supports, will produce greater proportional benefits for the poorer households, although these benefits are small. A 6% reduction in agricultural price supports result...

In Nigeria, there is over-reliance on oil proceeds at the expense of revenue accrued to agriculture, which adversely affects standard living. The study examines effect commodity prices agricultural output in Nigeria. empirical model, depends maize, wheat, soya beans, and prices. Data covering 1991 2017 from Central Bank Nigeria Statistical Bulletin Food Agricultural Organisation was analysed us...

Recent human population increase has been enabled by a massive expansion of global agricultural production. A key component of this "Green Revolution" has been application of inorganic fertilizers to produce and maintain high crop yields. However, the long-term sustainability of these practices is unclear given the eutrophying effects of fertilizer runoff as well as the reliance of fertilizer p...

The international prices of many agricultural commodities have increased significantly over the past two years. After falling sharply during the global financial crisis, the IMF Food Price Index has increased by 50 per cent since the end of 2008 and is now above its earlier peak in mid 2008. Supply disruptions have been an important factor behind the recent rise in the relative price of food, w...

Until recently in the developed countries, food prices had been moving in one single direction – downwards – for almost a generation, while the prices of agricultural products had been falling for almost thirty consecutive years. 2008, however, saw a turnaround in the negative trend of food prices, with most crop prices on the global markets doubling in nominal terms and making newspaper headli...

abstract comparison of food prices in different periods, indicates fluctuations and continually upward trend. any change in agricultural sector variables, as main food supplier, will affect food price. productivity shocks and production gap are examples of such variables. in this paper ,hodrick prescott and kalman filters are used as generators of productivity shocks and production gap series. ...

Special Issue: Causes and Consequences of the Food Price Crisis Biofuel production in the United States has been ridiculed in recent months, following the release of reports that suggest ethanol and biod­ iesel not only increase greenhouse gas emissions relative to fossil fuels, but also raise food prices and lower food production. The impact of biofuels on food markets came under particular sc...