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Modeling the price competitiveness of Indonesian crops
This paper examines the equity implications of the evolution of land rights from communal land tenure to individualization in customary land areas in Western Sumatra.
This study attempts to identify the impacts of land tenure institutions on the efficiency of farm management based on a case study of paddy rice and upland cinnamon production in the Kerinci Valley in West Sumatra, where most of Indonesia’s cinn
Rice policy, trade, and exchange rate changes in Indonesia
This paper presents an agriculture-focused computable general equilibrium model that can be used to analyze the economy-wide impacts of changes in technology, market structure, and the foreign exchange rate on resource allocation, production, and
Any evaluation of the benefits of policy-oriented social science research faces fundamental difficulties. These include the uncertainty in determining a causal link between research and the outcome of a policy or the value of a policy outcome.
Policy for plenty
This paper suggests practical methods for assessing policy research programs, both ex post and ex ante.
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Does land tenure insecurity discourage tree planting?
It is widely believed that land tenure insecurity under a customary tenure system leads to socially inefficient resource allocation.
Evaluating the effects of domestic policies and external factors on the price competitiveness of Indonesian crops
This paper presents a framework for analyzing the contributions of government policies and exogenous (mostly, external) factors to the observed changes in the relative price of a tradable agricultural product.
Rice price policies in Indonesia
This paper presents an agriculture sector focused Computable General Equilibrium (AG-CGE) model for analyzing the economy-wide impacts of changes in technology, protection, and market structure on resource allocation, production, and trade in Indo
Conference on agricultural sustainability, growth, and poverty alleviation in East and Southeast Asia
This first in a series of regional conferences on this subject brought together more than fifty agricultural scientists and policymakers from China, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, and from international agricultural resea
En este informe sobre política alimentaria se sintetizan las investigaciones en curso sobre la función que de sempeña la mujer para garantizar la seguridad alimentaria en el mundo en desarrollo.
Introduction and overview [in Agricultural commercialization, economic development, and nutrition]
Why should there be a book about the commercialization of subsistence agriculture, economic development, and nutrition? There are two compelling resasons.