Increasing economic pressures on water resources are causing countries to (re) consider
various mechanisms to improve water use efficiency. This is especially true for irrigation …

Explanations are provided for why governments do as they do in agriculture. Alternative
frameworks are assessed to explain government policy including collective action and …

Blueprint 3 is the direct sequel to the ground-breaking Blueprint for a Green Economy.
Taking the argument much further, David Pearce and his colleagues show how progress …

The present paper analyses the political economy of agricultural protection in a general
equilibrium framework. Rational politicians offer protectionist policies in return for political …

Getting prices right and allocating water efficiently will become increasingly important as
demand for food and water increases and as water scarcity becomes more of a problem …

This article reviews innovative research that has emerged in recent years, both in the
general economics literature and as applied to agricultural and food policies. There have …

A useful means for achieving efficient allocation of irrigation water is to put the right price tag
on it. This article discusses some of the more pervasive pricing methods and compares their …

This article studies whether political campaign contributions influence agricultural protection
in the United States in the manner suggested by the political economy model of Grossman …

Only a few years ago the widely shared view was that low food prices were a curse to
develo** countries and the poor. Their dramatic increase in 2006–8 appears to have …

One of the main political objectives of Western Balkan (WB) countries/territories is accession
into the European Union (EU). From the perspective of the agricultural sector, this implies …