Food security, diversification and resource management : refocusing the role of agriculture? : proceedings of the Twenty-third International Conference of Agricultural Economists, held at Sacramento, California, 10-16 August, 1997

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Food security, diversification and resource management : refocusing the role of agriculture? : proceedings of the Twenty-third International Conference of Agricultural Economists, held at Sacramento, California, 10-16 August, 1997

edited by G.H. Peters and Joachim von Braun

Ashgate, 1999

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Proceedings of the International Conference of Agricultural Economists : Twenty-third conference, 1997

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"International Association of Agricultural Economists, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford."

Includes bibliographical references and index

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This text contains proceedings from the conference held in California. It continues the series of triennial IAAE conferences and contains the Presidential address together with 12 plenary papers on the main theme of the conference, and 20 selected papers. Ancillary material includes reports on invited panel discussions and regional overviews of the main challenges involved in re-focussing the role of agriculture in major regions of the world.

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  • Presidential address: technology, policy and trade -the keys to food security and environmental protection, Robert L. Thompson
  • Elmhirst Memorial Lecture: the dynamics of agriculture, Yair Mundlak. Part 1 Security and demand challenges - global level and national policy issues, household consumption improvement: food security - a global perspective, Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Rajul Pandya-Lorch
  • national food security - a policy perspective for India, C.H. Hanumantha Rao, R. Radhakrishna
  • food security and the household, Ben Snauer, Terry Row. Part 2 Agricultural diversification and new technology: diversification and international trade, Alex McCalla, Alberto Valdes
  • rural economy and farm income diversification in developing countries, Chris Delgado, Ammar Siamwalla
  • agricultural biotechnology - economic and international implications, David Zilberman et al. Part 3: Resource management in agriculture - water and land, biodiversity, agriculture and climate: water and land resources and global food supply, Mark Rosegrant et al
  • impacts of global warming on agriculture, Darwin Hall
  • management of genetic resources for agriculture - ecology and information, externalities and policies, Timothy Swanson. Part 4 Economics of policy and institutional change: institutional transformation process - experiences, causes and implications, P. Michael Schmitz, Cornelia Noeth
  • policy and institutional change for agriculture in China - production, consumption and trade implications, Ke Bingsheng
  • regionalism in world food markets - implications for trade and welfare, Thomas Hertel et al. Contributed papers - household, diets and credit: determinants of time spent in non-farm employment by farmers in northern Ghana, Awudu Abdulai, Christopher L. Delgado
  • intra-household resource allocation in Ghana - the impact of the distribution of asset ownership within the household, Cheryl, R. Doss
  • determinants of diversification of urban Sahel diets into maize - a contingent valuation study of processed maize demand in Mali, D. Boughton et al
  • will European diets be similar? a cointegration approach, A. Gracia et al
  • the effects of food aid on maize prices in Mozambique, Cynthia Donovan et al
  • choices by poor households when the interest rate for deposits differs from the interest rate for loans, Mark Schreiner et al
  • factors affecting rural medium-term loan repayment - evidence from a South African development finance institution, M.E. Kuhn, M.A. Robinson. Contributed papers. (Part contents).

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