This article questions the effectiveness and viability of Tax to Fee reform (Fee Gai Shui) on water resources and agriculture production. The Fee Gai Shui reform has been heralded as a possible solution for reducing the...

Geography suggests that Indonesia will continue as a net rice importer for the foreseeable future, because it is an island nation without dominant river deltas providing abundant water and flat land suitable for rice growing....

Os programas de Transferência Condicionada de Renda (TCR) passaram a dominar o setor de proteção social na América Latina e no Caribe durante a última década (1). A maioria dos países da região ou está...

Using data from the 2003 Albania Panel Survey, the paper sets out to achieve two main objectives. First, we fully characterize the evolution of Albanian international migration since the fall of Communism in 1990. We distinguish...

Rice marketing margins are substantially greater in the Philippines than in Thailand despite many similarities between the two systems and despite the fact that Philippine rice marketing has a competitive structure. We found that rice...

Maize diversity is important to the livelihoods of millions of farmers in Mexico, the crop's centre of origin; to maize breeders seeking new genetic material; and to producers and consumers worldwide. Key social processes that...