Agricultural input subsidies were a major feature of development policies in rural economies until the 1980s. Continuing rural poverty with low productivity and fertilizer use in smallholder staple crops has led to their resurgence in Africa. These subsidies are, however, contro…
Agricultural input subsidies were a major feature of development policies in rural economies until the 1980s. Continuing rural poverty with low productivity and fertilizer use in smallholder staple crops has led to their resurgence in Africa. These subsidies are, however, contro…
"Agricultural input subsidies were a major feature of development policies in rural economies until the 1980s. Continuing rural poverty with low productivity and fertilizer use in smallholder staple crops has led to their resurgence in Africa. These subsidies are, however, contr…
Due to growing global concern regarding climate change and CO2 emissions, the use of soil as a potential carbon (C) sink has become increasingly recognised as a potential mitigation measure. Global agricultural soil has the estimated capacity for sequestering C at around 20 to 3…
In recent years, low agricultural productivity, food insecurity and environmental degradation have become more apparent in many African societies. These trends have threatened the ability of farmers to increase productivity and to practice sustainable agriculture. This thesis co…
Interactions between climate variability, risk behavior and agricultural policies in Morocco are examined. The analysis employs a series of general equilibrium models that are linked together to account for risk. The model explicitly incorporates the main features of the economy…
In the days of the early republic, agriculture provided more than just an economic foundation; it shaped the country socially, and politically, too. Thomas Jefferson and others wrote at length of the role farming played in the American moral and political order, but by the turn …
The dissertation studies the linkages between agricultural policy and the optimal allocation of water resources in the Riyadh region of Saudi Arabia. Farming in the Riyadh region entirely dependent on its limited groundwater, much of it nonrenewable, drawn from aquifers that hav…
The period after the Second World War was a significant moment in British colonialism in Nigeria. It was the height of the decolonization movements in many of Britain's colonial holdings and was the cradle of what David Low and J. M. Lonsdale call the "second colonial occupation…
As in much of the developing world, agriculture features heavily in Morocco's economy. Morocco's agricultural development, however, has been characterized by extreme dualism—an efficient, export-oriented, modern agricultural sector on the one hand, and the much larger traditiona…
Scope of study. The agricultural sector in Saudi Arabia entered a period of dynamic growth in the early 1980's. A broad range of policies were used to pursue government goals including interest free loans, subsidies on inputs, and price supports. The take-off stage in agricultur…