Research Catalog

Title

Contributions of agricultural economics to critical policy issues : proceedings of the twenty-sixth conference of the International Association of Agricultural Economists, held at Gold Coast, Australia, 12-18 August, 2006 / edited by Keijiro Otsuka and Kaliappa Kalirajan.

Author

International Conference of Agricultural Economists (26th : 2006 : Gold Coast, Qld.)

Publication

Malden, MA : Blackwell Synergy, 2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Otsuka, Keijiro
• Kalirajan, K. P.
• International Association of Agricultural Economists

Description

xii, 344 p. : ill., map; 28 cm.

Subject

Agriculture > Economic aspects > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: the 26th conference of the IAAE / Keijiro Otsuka and Kaliappa Kalirajan -- Agricultural growth and economic development: a view through the globalization lens / Prabhu Pingali -- Empowering rural people for their own development / Hans P. Binswanger -- economics of natural disasters: implications and challenges for food security / Hartwig de Haen and Gunter Hemrich -- impact of droughts and floods on food security and policy options to alleviate negative effects / Stephen Devereux -- impact of natural and manmade disasters on household welfare / Yasuyuki Sawada -- Doha agenda and agricultural trade reform: the role of economic analysis / Will Martin and Kym Anderson -- Globalization, privatization, and vertical coordination in food value chains in developing and transition countries / Johan F. M. Swinnen and Miet Maertens -- Food regulation and trade under the WTO: ten years in perspective / David Orden and Donna Roberts -- Economics of biofortification / Matin Qaim, Alexander J. Stein and J. V. Meenakshi -- Food safety in a globalizing world: opportunities and challenges for India / Dina Umali-Deininger and Mona Sur -- Food safety as a global public good / Laurian J. Unnevehr -- Technological progress for sustaining food-population balance: achievement and challenges / Mahabub Hossain -- Rural nonfarm employment in developing countries in an era of globalization / Thomas Reardon, Kostas Stamoulis and Prabhu Pingali -- Agricultural research and policy for better health and nutrition in developing countries: a food systems approach / Per Pinstrup-Andersen -- nutrition transition in high- and low-income countries: what are the policy lessons? / Barry Popkin and Shu Wen Ng -- Coping with drought in rice farming in Asia: insights from a cross-country comparative study / Sushil Pandey, Humnath Bhandari, Shijun Ding, Preeda Prapertchob, Ramesh Sharan, Dibakar Naik, Sudhir K. Taunk and Asras Sastri -- Productivity in Malagasy rice systems: wealth-differentiated constraints and priorities / Bart Minten, Jean-Claude Randrianarisoa and Christopher B. Barrett -- Economic statistics and U.S. agricultural policy / Bruce Gardner, Barry Goodwin and Mary Ahearn -- Income distributional effects of using market-based instruments for managing common property resources / Siwa Msangi and Richard E. Howitt -- Designing frameworks to deliver unknown information to support market-based instruments / Mark Eigenraam, Loris Strappazzon, Nicola Lansdell, Craig Beverly and Gary Stoneham -- Tariff line analysis of U.S. and international dairy protection / Jason H. Grant, Thomas W. Hertel and Thomas F. Rutherford -- Meta-analysis of general and partial equilibrium simulations of Doha round outcomes / Sebastian Hess and Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel -- Doha development round and Africa: partial and general equilibrium analyses of tariff preference erosion / Mohamed Hedi Bchir, Stephen N. Karingi, Andrew Mold, Patrick N. Osakwe and Mustapha Sadni Jallab -- IAAE Synopsis: contributions of agricultural economics to critical policy issues / John W. Longworth, David Colman, Yujiro Hayami, Rashid Hassan and Mark W. Rosegrant.

ISBN

• 9781405181006 (pbk.)
• 1405181001 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2007033948

OCLC

• 167497947
• SCSB-12078271

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