2006 Annual Meeting, August 12-18, 2006, Queensland, Australia

Economic statistics can be used to inform policy as it is being designed, avoid policy design mistakes, or implement government programs once they are established into la [...]

Early climate change research has projected declining rainfall patterns and increased periods of drought across southern Western Australia. These changes are likely to ha [...]

Land and water are the natural partners in the process of agricultural development. Their coordinated use is essen tial for long-term optimization of economic as well as [...]

An increasing scarcity of water for crop farming and livestock watering among agropastoralists of Mieso in Eastern Ethiopia has largely disrupted their livelihoods. Indig [...]

This paper characterises smallholder milk outlets in Nakuru district one of the major milk producing Districts in Kenya, and also analyses factors that influence their cu [...]

The management of supply chains of the agri-food sector has become a very complex structure. Product variety has decreased, changes in legislatives and quality management [...]

The Punjab of India is an historical source of key wheat genetic resources in national and global plant breeding, and a focus of concerns about the abandonment of local v [...]

The paper assesses the extent to which sampling variation affects findings about Malmquist productivity change derived using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), in the first [...]

The new institutional economics has recently developed the idea that the institutional environment can have an impact on economic actors' mental perceptions, and reciproc [...]