Agricultural Economics

1986 - 2004

Edited by William Masters and Gerald Shively

from Blackwell

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Volume 31, issue 2-3, 2004

Current issues in the economics of agriculture, food, and resources: reshaping agriculture's contributions to society pp. 119-122

Michele Veeman and Terry Veeman

Natural resource-collection work and children's schooling in Malawi pp. 123-134

Flora J. Nankhuni and Jill L. Findeis

On export rivalry and the greening of agriculture--the role of eco-labels pp. 135-147

Arnab K. Basu, Nancy H. Chau and Ulrike Grote

A household hedonic model of rice traits: economic values from farmers in West Africa pp. 149-159

Timothy J. Dalton

Rural taxation and government regulation in China pp. 161-168

Ran Tao, Justin Yifu Lin, Mingxing Liu and Qi Zhang

Institutions and agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 169-180

Lilyan Fulginiti, Richard Perrin and Bingxin Yu

Strategies to increase agricultural productivity and reduce land degradation: evidence from Uganda pp. 181-195

John Leonard Pender, Ephraim Maduhu Nkonya, Pamela Jagger, Dick Sserunkuuma and Henry Ssali

The economic determinants of cereal crop diversity on farms in the Ethiopian highlands pp. 197-208

Samuel Ekow Benin, Melinda Smale, John Leonard Pender, B. Gebremedhin and S. Ehui

Interlinked credit and farm intensification: evidence from Kenya pp. 209-218

Thomas S. Jayne, Takashi Yamano and James Nyoro

The impact of transport- and transaction-cost reductions on food markets in developing countries: evidence for tempered expectations for Burkina Faso pp. 219-228

Arjan Ruijs, Caspar Schweigman and Clemens Lutz

Diversification economies and specialisation efficiencies in a mixed food and coffee smallholder farming system in Papua New Guinea pp. 229-239

Timothy James Coelli and Euan Fleming

Farm size and the determinants of productive efficiency in the Brazilian Center-West pp. 241-249

Steven M. Helfand and Edward S. Levine

Courts and contract enforcement in transition agriculture: theory and evidence from Poland pp. 251-263

Volker Beckmann and Silke Boger

Policy dependency and reform: economic gains versus political pains pp. 265-275

David R. Harvey

Do counter-cyclical payments in the 2002 US Farm Act create incentives to produce? pp. 277-284

Jesus Anton and Chantal Le Mouël

Measuring productivity growth when technological change is biased--a new index and an application to UK agriculture pp. 285-295

Alastair StJohn Bailey, Xavier Irz and Kelvin George Balcombe

May the pro-poor impacts of trade liberalisation vanish because of imperfect information? pp. 297-305

Jean-Marc BOUSSARD, F. Gerard, M.G. Piketty, A.K. Christensen and T. Voituriez

International diffusion of gains from biotechnology and the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy pp. 307-316

Hans van Meijl and Frank van Tongeren

An experimental approach to valuing new differentiated products pp. 317-325

Leigh Maynard, Jason G. Hartell, A. Lee Meyer and Jianqiang Hao

Measuring market integration in the presence of transaction costs--a threshold vector error correction approach pp. 327-334

Jochen Meyer

Economic analysis of the impact of adopting herd health control programs on smallholder dairy farms in Central Thailand pp. 335-342

David C. Hall, Simeon K. Ehui and Barry . Shapiro

Analysis of the Colorado potato beetle protection system in Finland pp. 343-352

Jaakko Heikkila and Jukka Peltola

Volume 31, issue 1, 2004

Productivity growth, catching-up and uncertainty in China's meat trade pp. 1-16

Alejandro Nin Pratt, Thomas Warren Hertel, Kenneth Alan Foster and Allan Rae

Agriculture, pesticides and the ecosystem pp. 17-32

Rüdiger Pethig

Rural-urban migration and agricultural productivity: the case of Senegal pp. 33-45

Peter Daniel Goldsmith, Kisan Gunjal and Barnabe Ndarishikanye

Irrigation water pricing: differential impacts on irrigated farms pp. 47-66

Jose A. Gomez-Limon and Laura Riesgo

A cross-section analysis of household demand for food and nutrients in Tanzania pp. 67-79

Awudu Abdulai and Dominique Aubert

Calculating the cost of irrigation induced soil salinization in the tungabhadra project pp. 81-96

John A. Janmaat

A revised Tobit procedure for mitigating bias in the presence of non-zero censoring with an application to milk-market participation in the Ethiopian highlands pp. 97-106

Garth John Holloway, Charles Nicholson, Chris Delgado, Steve Staal and Simeon Ehui

Handbook of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 1A (Agricultural Production) and Vol. 1B (Marketing, Distribution and Consumers): B.L. Gardner and G.C. Rausser (Eds.), Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2001, 1400 pages, US$ 225, ISBN 0-4448-2588-6 pp. 107-109

David R. Lee

Agricultural Policy for the 21st Century: Tweeten, Luther and Stanley R. Thompson (Eds.); Iowa State University Press, Ames, 2002, 384 pages, US$ 73, ISBN 0-81-380-899-5 pp. 109-110

J. Bruce Bullock

Local Partnerships for Rural Development: The European Experience: Malcom Moseley (Ed.), CABI Publishing, Wallingford, Oxon, UK, 2003, 210 pp. + XIV, US$ 90, ISBN 0-85199-657-4 pp. 110-111

George R. McDowell

Volume 30, issue 3, 2004

Off-farm labour allocation decisions in small-scale rural households in Zimbabwe pp. 175-186

Innocent Matshe and Trevor Young

Agricultural diversification and integrated pest management in Bangladesh pp. 187-194

Chowdhury Mahmoud and Gerald E. Shively

The adoption of intensive monocrop horticulture in southern Cameroon pp. 195-202

James Gockowski and Michel Ndoumbe

Consumer preferences for cowpea in Cameroon and Ghana pp. 203-213

A. S. Langyintuo, G. Ntoukam, L. Murdock, J. Lowenberg-DeBoer and D. J. Miller

The role of education on the adoption of chemical fertiliser under different socioeconomic environments in Ethiopia pp. 215-228

Abay Asfaw and Assefa Admassie

Credit market access and profitability in Tunisian agriculture pp. 229-240

Jeremy D. Foltz

Technical efficiency and farm size: a conditional analysis pp. 241-250

Antonio M. Alvarez and Carlos Arias

Bountiful Harvest: Technology, Food Safety, and the Environment: Thomas R. DeGregori, Cato Institute, Washington, DC, 250 pages, US$ 12.95, ISBN 1-93086-531-7 pp. 251-252

Jeremy D. Foltz

Review of Agricultural Research Policy in an Era of Privatization: Derek Byerlee and Ruben Echevarria (Eds.); CABI International, Cambridge, MA, 2002, hardback, US$ 75.00, ISBN 0-8519-9600-0 pp. 252-253

Keith Owen Fuglie

Agriculture: The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change: A Report of the National Agriculture Assessment Group for the US Global Change Research Program, John Reilly (Ed.), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002, 150 pages, US$ 30.00 pb, ISBN 0-5210-1628-2 pp. 253-254

Kathleen Segerson

Globalization and the Developing Countries: Emerging Strategies for Rural Development and Poverty Alleviation: David Bigman (Ed.); CABI International, Wallingford, UK, 2002, xv, pages 336, US$ 40, ISBN 0-85199-575-6 pp. 255-256

Mitch Renkow

Economic and Social Issues in Agricultural Biotechnology: R.E. Evenson, V. Santaniello and D. Zilberman (Eds.); CABI Publishing, New York, 2002, 421 pages, US$ 130, ISBN 0851996183 pp. 256-257

Guy Hareau

Natural Resources Management in African Countries: Understanding and Improving Current Practices: C.B. Barrett, F. Place and A.A. Aboud (Eds.), CABI Publishing, New York, 2002, 335 pages, US$ 95.00, ISBN 0-8519-9584-5 pp. 257-259

Lire Ersado

Life Science Ethics: Gary Comstock (Ed.), Iowa State Press, Ames, 2002, 380 pages, US$ 65, ISBN 0-8138-2835 pp. 259-260

Michael Joseph Ellerbrock

Travels in the Genetically Modified Zone: Mark Winston, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2002, 256 pages, references, index, US$ 27.95, ISBN 0-674-00867-7 pp. 260-261

L. J. Butler

Volume 30, issue 2, 2004

Public investment and regional inequality in rural China pp. 89-100

Xiaobo Zhang and Shenggen Fan

Investment and equity effects of land regularisation: the case of Nicaragua pp. 101-116

Klaus W. Deininger and Juan Sebastian Chamorro

Factors affecting entry and intensity in informal rental land markets in Southern Ethiopian highlands pp. 117-128

Tesfaye Teklu and Adugna Lemi

Short-term employment transitions of the Canadian labour force: rural-urban differences in underemployment pp. 129-142

Esperanza Vera-Toscano, Euan Phimister and Alfons Weersink

The economic benefits of rabbit control in Australian temperate pastures by the introduction of rabbit haemorrhagic disease pp. 143-155

D. T. Vere, R. E. Jones and Glen Saunders

The impact of seed industry concentration on innovation: a study of US biotech market leaders pp. 157-167

David Schimmelpfennig, Carl E. Pray and Margaret F. Brennan

Agri-culture: Reconnecting People, Land and Nature: Jules Pretty (Ed.), Earthscan, London, 2002, 261 pages, paperback, [UK pound] 14.95, ISBN 1-85383-925-6 pp. 169-170

Molly Scott Cato

World Health Report 2002: Reducing Risks, Promoting Healthy Life: World Health Organization, Geneva, 2002, 250 pages, US$ 13.50, ISBN 9-2415-6207-2 pp. 170-172

Gladys B. Mutangadura

FAO Papers on Selected Issues Related to the WTO Negotiations on Agriculture: UN Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, 2002, 286 pages, US$ 20, TC/D/Y3733/E pp. 172-173

Tassos Haniotis

Volume 30, issue 1, 2004

Farm productivity and efficiency in the CEE applicant countries: a synthesis of results pp. 1-16

Matthew Gorton and Sophia Moissey Davidova

Does agricultural extension pay?: A case study for a new crop, lupins, in Western Australia pp. 17-30

Sally P. Marsh, David J. Pannell and Robert K. Lindner

Land degradation, drought and food security in a less-favoured area in the Ethiopian highlands: a bio-economic model with market imperfections pp. 31-49

Stein Terje Holden and Bekele Shiferaw

Distributive leakages of agricultural support: some empirical evidence pp. 51-62

Klaus Salhofer and Erwin Schmid

Metamodelling phosphorus best management practices for policy use: a frontier approach pp. 63-74

Robert Johansson, Prasanna H. Gowda, David J. Mulla and Brent J. Dalzell

A Comprehensive Assessment of the Role of Risk in US Agriculture: Just Richard E., Rulon D. Pope (Eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA, 2001, 600 pp., US$ 99, ISBN 079237567X pp. 75-77

Loren W. Tauer

Providing Global Public Goods: Managing Globalization: Inge Kaul, Pedro Conceicao, Katell Le Goulven and Ronald U. Mendoza (Eds.); Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, published for the United Nations Development Program, 2003, US$ 39.95, (646 + xxii) pages, ISBN 0195157419 pp. 77-79

Dana G. Dalrymple

Agricultural Policy Reform--Politics and Process in the EU and US in the 1990s: Wayne Moyer and Tim Josling (Eds.), Ashgate Publishing Limited, Aldershot, England, 2002, 271 pages, hardback, US$ 74.95/[UK pound] 42.50, ISBN 0-7546-3050-1 pp. 79-80

Lars Brink