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2. Risk aversion, technology choice, and equity effects of agricultural policy
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Just, Richard E. (author), Zilberman, David (author), and Just: Professor of agricultural and resource economics, University of California, Berkeley, CA; Zilberman: Associate professor of agricultural and resource economics, University of California, Berkeley, CA
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1985-05
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05318
- Journal Title:
- American Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 67 (2) : 435-440.
- Notes:
- AGRICOLA AGE 85925871, Extract: This paper draws on some recent rigorous results to illuminate the distributional consequences of agricultural policy. The paper begins by discussing the important characteristics of the agricultural sector that must play a role in a minimally realistic model of distributional effects. Heterogeneity gives rise to different regimes of behavior among farmers. These regimes are used to illustrate the equity effects of agricultural policy.
3. Some nonfarm effects of changes in agricultural technology
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Barkley, Paul W. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1978-05
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 110 Document Number: C10535
- Journal Title:
- American Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- <60 (2): 309-315>
- Notes:
- Mason E. Miller collection
4. Technological change, government policies, and exhaustible resources in agriculture
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Zilberman, David (author / Associate Professor of Agriculture and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley, CA)
- Format:
- Conference paper
- Publication Date:
- 1984-12
- Published:
- USA: Ames, IA : American Agricultural Economics Association.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 87 Document Number: C05832
- Journal Title:
- American Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 66 (5) : 634-642.
- Notes:
- AGE 85925345; Paper presented at the "Annual Meeting at the American Agricultural Economics Association," 1984 August 5 - 8; Ithaca, NY, This paper analyzes the use of an exhaustible resource by an agricultural industry, taking into account agricultural policy considerations and some of the unique conventional wisdom features of the agricultural sector. The model is especially appropriate for analyzing the utilization of water resources. The model assumes the agricultural industry to be competitive, to have a wide distribution of farm sizes, to go through a process of adoption of a continuously improving technology, and to face inelastic demand. The new technology considered is a land quality-improving technology which is similar in its properties to modern irrigation technologies (drip, sprinkler, and center pivot irrigation). In particular, it considers a price-support policy and its impacts.
5. The role of public policy in the diffusion of improved agricultural technology
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Feder, Gershon (author), Slade, Roger (author), and Senior economists, World Bank; Senior economists, World Bank
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1985-05
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05306
- Journal Title:
- American Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 67 (2) : 423-428.
- Notes:
- AGRICOLA AGE 85925869, Extract: The present paper consider both knowledge diffusion and adoption, assuming that a relevant and viable new technology is available. The focus is on the rationale for and scope of public sector involvement in these processes. Such involvement includes publicly sponsored information dissemination, intervention in output and input markets, intervention in the credit market, and investment in infrastructure. These issues are discussed below.