Tomorrow's agriculture : incentives, institutions, infrastructure, and innovations ; proceedings of the Twenty-fourth International Conference of Agriccultural Economists, held at Berlin, Germany, 13-18 August 2000 / edited by G.H. Peters and Prabhu Pingali.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Peters, G. H. (George Henry), 1934-

Pingali, Prabhu L., 1955-

International Conference of Agricultural Economists (Association) 2000 : Berlin, Germany)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture--Economic aspects--Forecasting--Congresses.

Agriculture.

Agriculture--Economic aspects--Forecasting.

Agriculture--Economic aspects.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xxxv, 844 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2001.

Contents:

Tribute to George Peters / John McInerney, Joachim von Braun ix

Introduction: The 24th Conference and the Association / George H. Peters, Prabhu Pingali xvi

Presidential Address: Considerations on the making of public policy for agriculture / Douglas D. Hedley 3

Elmhirst Memorial Lecture: The transformation of agriculture and the world economy: challenges for the governance of agriculture and for the profession / James T. Bonnen 12

Section I Globalization of the Food and Agricultural Economy

Globalizing germ plasm: barriers, benefits and boundaries / Walter P. Falcon 41

GMOs, food safety and the environment: what role for trade policy and the WTO? / Kym Anderson, Chantal Pohl Nielsen 61

The 'political economy' of agricultural biotechnology for the developing world / Klaus M. Leisinger 86

Tomorrow's agriculture / Gerhard Prante 113

Section II Improved Market Incentives in Transition Economies

Sequencing and the success of gradualism: empirical evidence from China's agricultural reform / Alan de Brauw, Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle 123

Agrarian transitions and productivity patterns: synthesis of experiences in Eastern Europe, the Former Soviet Union and East Asia / Karen Macours, Johan F.M. Swinnen 147

Land reforms and emerging agri-food markets: the Russian experience / Eugenia Serova 163

Market reforms in South Asian agriculture: will they deliver? / Ashok Gulati 178

Section III Agricultural Research, Technology Development and Institutions

Agricultural research, technology and world food markets / Mark W. Rosegrant, Claudia Ringler, Michael S. Paisner 193

Human capital, education and agriculture / Wallace E. Huffman 207

Reassessing research returns: attribution and related problems / Julian M. Alston, Philip G. Pardey 223

The role of institutions in policy formation and delivery / Robin W. Johnson 243

Section IV Making Agriculture Environmentally Safe

Precision agriculture: global prospects and environmental implications / George W. Norton, Scott M. Swinton 269

Economic incentives for conserving crop genetic diversity on farms: issues and evidence / Melinda Smale 287

Population pressure, land tenure and natural resource management / Keijiro Otsuka 306

Agricultural trade barriers, trade negotiations and the interests of developing countries / Hans Binswanger, Ernst Lutz 319

Contributed Papers

Development and Research

A new approach to the evolution of primary commodity terms of trade and the implications for developing countries / George P. Zanias 343

Short-run and long-run elasticities for ASEAN agricultural exports to the European Union: an error-correction mechanism approach / Jyrki Niemi 353

International transfers and food security / Christian Friis Bach, Alan Matthews 368

Agricultural productivity growth in Asian countries / Kecuk Suhariyanto 376

Land reform initiatives in China / John Davis, Liming Wang, Fu Chen 383

Economic liberalization and rural poverty alleviation: the Indian experience / K.N. Ninan 399

Use of an indigenous board game, 'bao', for assessing farmers' preferences among alternative agricultural technologies / Steven Franzel 416

Making better sense of the numbers on developing country agriculture / Ellen Hanak Freud 425

Policies for private agricultural research in Asian developing countries / Carl E. Pray, Keith Fuglie 433

Competitive funds for agricultural research: are they achieving what we want? / Ruben G. Echeverria, Howard Elliott 442

Trade, European Union and Methodology

The definition of export subsidies and the Agreement on Agriculture / Isabelle Schluep, Harry De Gorter 469

The Agenda 2000 CAP reform in the WTO context: distortion effects of compensatory payments and area set-aside requirements / Alexandre Gohin, Herve Guyomard 479

Eastern enlargement of the European Union: general and partial equilibrium analysis / Martin Banse, Wolfgang Munch, Stefan Tangermann 488

The CAP's impact on agriculture and food demand in Central European countries after EU accession: who will lose and who will gain? / Gerald Weber 498

A game theoretic analysis of Turkey's integration into the European Union / Cemal Atici, P. Lynn Kennedy 506

Land use in the European Union by 2020 / Antonio M.D. Nucifora 516

Challenges and constraints for cooperative conflict management among land use stakeholders / Andrea Knierim, Uwe Jens Nagel 527

Targeting farm income and nutrient runoffs through agrienvironmental policy mixes: experience from Finland / Jussi Lankoski, Markku Ollikainen 538

Employment and efficiency of farms in transition: an empirical analysis for Brandenburg / Alfons Balmann, Britta Czasch, Martin Odening 553

Academic rigour or policy relevance: towards a reconciliation / David R. Harvey 565

Panel Discussion Reports 585

Discussion Group and Mini-Symposium Reports 635

Poster Paper Abstracts 715

Closing Session: A synoptic view of the IAAE Conference, Berlin 2000 / Joachim von Braun 815.

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0754621677

OCLC:

46729292