Except for dairy producers, who have benefited from price and income support programs dating back to New Deal legislation from the 1930s, coverage for livestock and livestock products remained largely confined to ad hoc supplemental disaster cover
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Consumer prices have increased substantially in recent months.
A flood-modeling approach that integrates across spatial zones to assess the annual probability of population exposure & improve adaptation planning and policies.
Investing in farmers – or agriculture human capital – is crucial to addressing challenges in our agri-food systems.
Spatial spillover and COVID-19 spread in the U.S.
Background: This research estimates the effects of vulnerability on the spread of COVID-19 cases across U.S. counties.
At a recent House hearing, U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said that USDA would terminate the Farmers to Family Food Box program.
Covid-19 and lockdown policies: A structural simulation model of a bottom-up recession in four countries
This paper considers different approaches to modelling the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic/lockdown shocks.
The past four years have been chaotic for US agriculture.
US trade aid payments and the WTO
Asset maintenance as hidden investment among the poor and rich: Application to housing
Substituting maintenance of existing fixed assets for investment in new assets, and thus affecting their depreciation, can play a major role in the economic decisions of low-income agents.
This note provides an overview of investment trends in global agricultural research to the year 2016, which revises ASTI’s prior global update (Beintema et al. 2012).
The U.S. complaint about Chinese tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) on certain grain products helps illustrate several key issues in U.S. - China trade relations and the effectiveness of WTO disputes.