28th West Indies Agricultural Economic Conference/2009 Barbados National Agricultural Conference, July 2009, Barbados

This paper examines the impact of the banana dispute between the European Union (EU) and Latin American banana producers and the US on the supply of bananas from Dominica [...]

An aggregate seafood import demand function for selected Caribbean countries is estimated using Autoregressive Error model and a Generalized Autoregressive Conditional He [...]

This study sought to determine the factors affecting the relative competitiveness (RC) measured as the normalized profit per acre, of cassava farmers in South Western Tri [...]

This paper investigates sanctions from the point-of-view of the agricultural sector. Specifically the paper examines whether the US should eliminate unilateral sanctions [...]

The Caribbean Common Market (CARICOM) countries are investing in agricultural development with limited knowledge of the technical efficiencies emanating from recent chang [...]

The presence of nonlinearity, threshold behavior and cointegration under asymmetric adjustment are investigated in the vertical transmission of shocks between farm and re [...]

Availability and accessibility of appropriate information has been identified as one of the major constraints to the advancement of the agricultural sector both locally a [...]

Technology changes the organizational structure and roles of employees in the workplace. Many researchers in the Caribbean are now incorporating GIS and GPS technologies [...]

Prior to 1990, there was a production-led approach to crop production in Nevis. Farmers harvested their crops hoping to get them sold and not producing them for a specifi [...]

The safe production and marketing of food is a major step towards food security. However, many farmers put themselves at risk from pesticide poisoning during the producti [...]