Evaluation of the effects of a shift from maize to sugarcane on agricultural production, income, expenditures, consumption, and health and nutritional status

Evaluation of the effects of a shift from maize to sugarcane on agricultural production, income, expenditures, consumption, and health and nutritional status

Subsistence production: a sign of market failure. Commercialization cannot be left to the market. Household effects of commercialization. Nutrition effects of commercialization. Policy action needed.

Agriculture in the GATT: an overview; Criteria for evaluating trade reform proposals; The theoretical consequences of changing certain GATT provisions; Outline of a trade reform package.

The role of agriculture in the Colombian economy and main economic development, 1967-83; Model and empirical evidence; Supply response in Colombian agriculture; Income distribution and real wages in agriculture.

Research methodology and data; Infrastructure and agricultural production; Infrastructure, the rural labor market, and employment; Infrastructure, household income, and poverty; Linkage, between infrastructure and consumption; Infrastructure and savings-investment behavior; Infrastructure, rural markets, and social development; Implications for public policies.

Trabalho sobre projeto de desenvolvimento de cooperativas de produtores de leite em Karnataka, India, abordando o contexto do estudo, a producao de leite, marketing, medidas diretas de efeito sobre o consumo, mudancas nos custos e distribuicao de renda. Aborda tambem as implicacoes politicas.