This paper suggests practical methods for assessing policy research programs, both ex post and ex ante.

This paper analyzes the wheat market in South America, with a focus on MERCOSUR.

Les résultats de la technologie moderne en matière d’augmentation des rendements agricoles sur des sols au potentiel élevé connaissent une réussite éclatante, au point où les chercheurs et les décideurs s’empressent d’employer les intrants moderne

Este informe de investigaciones se concentra en los vínculos existentes entre la adopción de tecnología y las decisiones de los agricultores sobre la combinación y diversificación de productos--qué clase de cultivos o de ganado deben producir y e

The success of modern technology in increasing yields on high-potential lands has been so great that researchers and policymakers alike have been quick to use modern inputs on marginal lands as well.

The aggregated and disaggregated Brazil Social Accounting Matrices for 1995-96 are primarily based on the 1995 Input-Output Table and National Accounts for Brazil, as well as the 1995-96 Agricultural Census.

Brazilian wheat policy as considered in this chapter consists of two relatively separate components: production policies and consumption policies.

IFPRI's food gap studies ... aimed at defining the general magnitude, composition, and dynamics of the Third World food problem, have primarily used agricultural data furnished by ...( FAO)--P. vii.

Brazil’s minimum price program operates under a set of minimum prices announced before the planting season. These prices are normally set below the expected market prices at harvest time.