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  • China's Agricultural Research System and Reforms: Challenges and Implications for Developing Countries

    Jikun Huang, Ruifa Hu, and Scott Rozelle
    The expansion of the real output of major food and agricultural productions in China ranks as one of the nation's great achievements. Publicly funded agricultural research has been key to the impressive performance (Huang et al. 2003). Expenditures grew rapidly from the early 1960s to the middle...
    Volume 1 Issue No. 1 (June 2004)

  • Intellectual Property Rights and Asian Agriculture

    Robert E. Evenson
    Developing countries have traditionally been antagonistic to the introduction of strengthened Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) systems. This is the case in spite of the obvious fact that virtually all Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) market economies have...
    Volume 1 Issue No. 1 (June 2004)

  • Rural Institutions, Agricultural Development, and Pro-Poor Economic Growth

    James A. Roumasset
    According to conventional wisdom, the ideal form of pro-poor economic development is through investment in agriculturally-led growth. In the early stages of growth, increased production decreases food prices and shifts out the demand for labor. Inasmuch as poor households disproportionately consume...
    Volume 1 Issue No. 1 (June 2004)

  • The Three Agricultural Problems in the Disequilibrium of World Agriculture

    Yujiro Hayami and Yoshihisa Godo
    The disequilibrium of world agriculture has been worsening as manifested by increasing food deficit in developing economies in contrast with increasing surplus in developed economies. Underlying this disequilibrium are policies determined by the three different agricultural problems confronted by...
    Volume 1 Issue No. 1 (June 2004)

  • Water Resources and Irrigation Policy Issues in Asia

    Wilfredo P. David
    Freshwater is a finite resource that is being continuously exploited to meet the requirements of an increasing population. The estimated average available water per capita worldwide decreased from about 40,000 cubic meter (m3) in 1800 to 17,000 m3 in 1950, 12,900 m3 in 1970 and 7,000 m3 in 1997...
    Volume 1 Issue No. 1 (June 2004)

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