Keijiro Otsuka, Kaliappa Kalirajan

Contributions of Agricultural Economics to Critical Policy Issues

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a collection of plenary sessions papers and selected invited panel papers presented in the 26th International Conference of Agricultural Economists held at Gold Coast, Australia, from 12 to18 August 2006. Beginning with the presidential address by Prabhu Pingali and the Elmhirst lecture by Hans Binswanger dealing with global issues of agricultural growth, economic development, and empowerment of the rural poor, leading agricultural economists address such emerging and critical issues as the economics of natural disasters, international trade and marketing, food safety and health, and transformation of unfavorable poor areas, among other issues.

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Produktdetails

• Agricultural Economics
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 280mm x 210mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 666g
• ISBN-13: 9781405181006
• ISBN-10: 1405181001
• Artikelnr.: 23525254

Autorenporträt

Keijiro Otsuka is a professorial fellow at the Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development (FASID) in Tokyo and the Director of GRIPS/FASID Joint Graduate Program. He is president-elect of IAAE. He has been working extensively on the Green Revolution, land tenancy, property rights and natural resource management, and the poverty dynamics in both Asia and Africa. Kaliappa Kalirajan is also a professorial fellow at FASID and a professor of development economics at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS). His areas of major interest include macroeconomic and trade policies and reform, poverty reduction, and technology issues. He is also an adjunct professor at the Madras School of Economics, Chennai, India.

Inhaltsangabe

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 Binswanger.
Plenary 1.
The Economics of Natural Disasters: Implications and Challenges for Food
Security.
Hartwig de Haen, Gunter Hemrich.
The Impact of Droughts and Floods on Food Security and Policy Options to
Alleviate Negative Effects.
Stephen Devereux.
The Impact of Natural and Manmade Disasters on Household Welfare.
Yasuyuki Sawada.
Plenary 2.
The Doha Agenda and Agricultural Trade Reform: The Role of Economic
Analysis.
Will Martin, Kym Anderson.
Globalization, Privatization, and Vertical Coordination in Food Value
Chains in Developing and Transition Countries.
Johan Swinnen, Miet Maertens.
Food Regulation and Trade under the WTO: Ten Years in Perspective.
David Orden, Donna Roberts.
Plenary 3.
Economics of Biofortification.
Matin Qaim, Alexander J. Stein, J.V. Meenakshi.
Food Safety in a Globalizing World: Opportunities and Challenges for India.
Dina Umali-Deininger, Mona Sur.
Food Safety as a Global Public Goods: Is There Underinvestment?.
Laurian Unnevehr.
Plenary 4.
The Technological Progress for Sustaining Food-Population Balance:
Achievement and Challenges.
Mahabub Hossain.
Rural Nonfarm Employment in Developing Countries in an era of
Globalization.
Tom Reardon, Kostas Stamoulis, Prabhu Pingali.
Invited Panels.
Agricultural Research and Policy for Better Health and Nutrition in
Developing Countries: A Food Systems Approach.
Per Pinstrup-Andersen.
The 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, 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.
The 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:.
John W. Longworth.
David Colman.
Yujiro Hayami.
Rashid Hassan.
Mark W. Rosegrant.
Conference Program.
Name Index.
Subject Index