Recent research has shed light on the cost-effective contribution that agriculture can make to global greenhouse gas abatement; however, the resulting impacts on agricultural production, producer livelihoods, and food security remain largely unexplored. This paper provides an integrated assessment of the linkages between land-based climate policies, development, and food security, with a partic...

The use of pesticides implies negative effects on human health and the environment. Thus, reduction in pesticide risks without harming food security farmers' income is a key policy goal. aim to investigate implications policies that explicitly foster large-scale adoption pesticide-free, non-organic production systems at national scale using Swiss crop as an illustrative example. We develop bio-...

evaluation of agricultural policies is an important issue in agricultural economics literature. economists evaluate policies on base of their welfare effects. the objective of this study is outcome subsidies removing for wheat and bread and its effect on producers and consumers. the minimization of changes in welfare loss is used in this study. the results of the welfare outcomes in wheat marke...

in this paper the trade restrictiveness of agricultural policies in iran was measured by the triindex for the nine major agricultural products including wheat, rice, barely, maize, soybean,meat (beef meat), soybean oil, sugar and banana over the period 1981 to 2007. the main resultsindicate that there is no trend in above index and high volatility especially in 2006 and 2007years due to conside...

This Elmhirst lecture first discusses the features of the institutional environment which allow rural people in low income countries to design, plan and implement their own rural development. These are divided into two broad groups: the institutional environment for rural development (environment for the private sector, communities and civil society, local government, and sector institutions) a...