Agricultural and rural economics Books

Book SynopsisThe International Economics of Wine provides a broad range of studies by Professor Kym Anderson and his co-authors of the international trade dimension of national, regional and global wine market developments over the past quarter-century. Prior to 1990, barely 10% of global wine production crossed national borders, but now that figure is 40%. In that short period, wine has switched from being one of the world's least-traded agricultural products to one of the most traded internationally. This has created an unprecedented boom for consumers, who have also witnessed huge improvements in the quality and diversity of wines available.The chapters in this book shed light on the causes and consequences of the dramatic transformation of the world of wine. An economic model of the world's wine markets, based on newly compiled data, makes it possible to quantify the likely effects of changes in incomes, consumer preferences, tax and trade policies, and exchange rates. Differential changes in technologies and winegrape varieties, and the opening up of cooler wine regions, have also altered comparative advantages in wine.

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Book SynopsisModern society is currently facing a cascade of environmental crises. Moving forward, it will be the job of current and future generations to develop sound and creative approaches to addressing them. This book attempts to provide insight into the ways in which society can confront modern agricultural, environmental, and resource challenges. In particular, it provides an economic lens with which to examine and confront these issues. The first part of the book introduces a general economic framework that can be used to analyze these issues. Subsequent chapters rely on this framework to introduce and explain specific concepts in agricultural, environmental, and resource economics, including (but not limited to) non-renewable and renewable resource management, pesticide use, and climate change. The book develops quantitative tools that the readership can use to analyze and better understand the complexities of these challenges. Each chapter includes specific applications, and an accompanying Appendix includes a longer list of practice problems that can be brought into courses as exercises.Resources are available to instructors who adopt this book. More details at www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/13304-sm

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Book SynopsisModern society is currently facing a cascade of environmental crises. Moving forward, it will be the job of current and future generations to develop sound and creative approaches to addressing them. This book attempts to provide insight into the ways in which society can confront modern agricultural, environmental, and resource challenges. In particular, it provides an economic lens with which to examine and confront these issues. The first part of the book introduces a general economic framework that can be used to analyze these issues. Subsequent chapters rely on this framework to introduce and explain specific concepts in agricultural, environmental, and resource economics, including (but not limited to) non-renewable and renewable resource management, pesticide use, and climate change. The book develops quantitative tools that the readership can use to analyze and better understand the complexities of these challenges. Each chapter includes specific applications, and an accompanying Appendix includes a longer list of practice problems that can be brought into courses as exercises.Resources are available to instructors who adopt this book. More details at www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/13304-sm

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Book SynopsisHandbook of International Food and Agricultural Policies is a three-volume set that aims to provide an accessible reference for those interested in the aims and implementation of food and farm policies throughout the world. The treatment is authoritative, comprehensive and forward looking. The three volumes combine scholarship and pragmatism, relating academic writing to real-world issues faced by policy-makers. A companion volume looking at the future resource and climate challenges for global agriculture will be published in the future.Volume I covers Farm and Rural Development policies of developed and developing countries. The volume contains 20 country chapters together with a concluding comprehensive synthesis of lessons to be drawn from the experiences of the individual countries.Volume II examines the experience of countries with food policies, including those dealing with food safety and quality and the responsibility for food security in developing countries. The chapters address issues such as obesity, nutritional supplements, organic foods, food assistance programs, biotech food acceptance, and the place of private standards.Volume III describes and explains the international trade dimension of farm and food policies — both at the bilateral and regional level — and also the multilateral rules that influence and constrain individual governments. The volume also looks at the steps that countries are together taking to meet the needs of developing and low-income countries.The volumes are of value to students and researchers interested in economic development, agricultural markets and food systems. Policy-makers and professionals involved in monitoring and regulating agricultural and food markets would also find the volumes useful in their practical work. This three-volume set is also a suitable source for the general public interested in how their food system is influenced by government policies.

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Book SynopsisThe objective of publishing this book is to let the general public have a better understanding of the food security situation in China and better comprehension of the merit of allocating land through market mechanism. In addition, it makes the public aware of the inefficiencies of current government regulated land system.As a populous country in the world, China emphasizes too much importance of food to ensure people's sufficient consumption. There is a national policy to protect farm land, farm land protection refers to 18 hundred million mu of farmland which is specifically designated for food production only. Unirule defined the national food security as the capability to solve food shortages, and calculated the gap between food supply and demand. Two approaches can be used to solve the above food gap. Food security problems will not happen under situations of free trade and factors substitution in market economy, substantial storage and foreign exchange income. In modern China, food insecurity or great famine only happened in planned economy. To link tightly farm land size and grain yield and even food security is baseless both in theory and practices. The previous red line of 21 hundred million mu was already broken through. The current red line of 18 hundred million mu will also be broken through, in view of the process of industrialization and urbanization. In fact, farm land protection should focus on protecting the employment right of peasant in land.Table of ContentsResearch on the Total Area, Structure and Quality of China's Cultivated Land; The Unsuccessful Cultivated Land Protection System; Free Trade of Property Rights of Land is an Effective Land-Saving System - On Property Rights of Land Transaction System Reform; Literature Review on Food Security; Analysis on the Causes and Results of the Great Famine of China (1959 - 1961); Retrospect and Prospect of China's Food Trade; China's Grain Distribution; International Food Security and Food Trade; Measurement of Food Security - Food Gap; Domestic Solutions to China's Food Shortage; International Solutions to China's Food Shortage.

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Book SynopsisTrade-Related Agricultural Policy Analysis brings together several aspects of agricultural policy analysis in an international context. A unique dimension of this book is a focus not on traditional border measures (tariffs, quotas and export subsidies or restrictions) but on behind-the-border measures that reflect the political economy of agriculture as a primary sector in context of its historical roots and relevant issues within each country. Macroeconomic policies interact with agricultural prices and trade, and thus with farm support programs. There is an intense political economy of agricultural policy in the United States, as set in recurring “farm bills.” This recurring legislation has direct effects on world markets and indirect effects by setting the conditions and tone for international negotiations. Policy interventions directed at agriculture do not occur in isolate, so their impacts have to be weighed against one another. Moreover, seeking an open global trading system for agricultural and food products has to be balanced with some public-good regulation to ensure health and safety as products cross borders. Each of these issues is explored in several chapters of this volume.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Synopsis and Context of the Volume; Macroeconomic Impacts on Agriculture: Monetary Impacts on Prices in the Short Run and Long Run: Some Evidences from New Zealand (John C Robertson and David Orden); Identifying Monetary Impacts on Agricultural Prices in VAR Models (David Orden and Paul Fackler); Exchange Rate Alignment and Producer Support Estimates (PSEs) of India (Fuzhi Cheng and David Orden); US Farm Policy in International Perspective, 1990-2020: The WTO Disciplines on Domestic Support, Lars Brink (David Orden, David Blandford and Tim Josling); Agricultural Interest Group Bargaining over the North American Free Trade Agreement (David Orden); The Political Economy of the FAIR Act (David Orden, Robert Paarlberg and Terry Roe); US Agricultural Policy: The 2002 Farm Bill and WTO Doha Round Proposal (David Orden); United States, David Blandford and David Orden (David Orden, David Blandford and Tim Josling); The US Agricultural Act of 2014; Policy Interactions: Sources of Growth in French Agriculture (Frederic Bouchet, David Orden and George W Norton); Environmental Quality and Industry Protection with Noncooperative versus Cooperative Domestic and Trade Policies (Joachim Schleich and David Orden); Poverty Implications of Agricultural and Non-Agricultural Price Distortions in Pakistan (Caesar B Cororaton and David Orden); Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures: Integrating Import Risk and Trade Benefit Analysis (Richard Snape and David Orden); Trade-Related Regulations in the Global Food System (Timothy Josling, Donna Roberts and David Orden); Global Food Regulatory Framework (Timothy Josling, Donna Roberts and David Orden); Avocado Pests and Avocado Trade (Everett Peterson and David Orden);

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Book SynopsisThe aim of the book is to provide interested readers with access to a number of articles that have been written over the years on the subject of the linkages between domestic farm policies (particularly in developed countries) and world markets for agricultural goods. The scope of the book includes the measurement of protection and the estimation of transfers to agricultural producers, the effect of these policies on consumers and the consequent impact on international trade. A major theme is that the monitoring of the trade and transfer implications of farm policies is an essential first step to addressing the need for internationally agreed disciplines on their nature and extent. The topic of trade impacts of farm policies has become important in two different market situations. When agricultural commodity prices are depressed, attention turns to the activities of countries (particularly developed countries) that support the income of their own farmers but at the expense of farmers in other countries. When prices rise, as they have done in the last five years, the question is reversed: what is the impact of the farm and food policies that restrict exports to keep domestic prices low on food security in other countries? Thus, the narrative of the monitoring of farm policies by international organizations such as the OECD and the disciplining of such policies under the rules of the WTO is as relevant today as in the 1970s when the first efforts in this direction were made.Table of ContentsMeasurement of the Trade Impacts of Developed Country Farm Policies; Confronting Domestic Farm Policies with Trade Objectives; Disciplining Domestic Policies through the GATT and WTO; Monitoring the Compliance of Country Policies with WTO Disciplines;

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