Commentary
Is the time really ripe for a free trade treaty (TAFTA) between the US and Europe? A TAFTA would liberate small and medium size businesses from a painful cost burden, writes Charles Ries in a guest editorial for International Trade News.
Project
CUBE 2.0, an update of the 2010 release of the 1.0 version, allows users to estimate the "farm-to-gate" greenhouse gas emissions of biomass feedstocks for energy production, as well as the uncertainty in these emissions.
Report
This report considers how translational research and knowledge exchange can be enhanced throughout the food and agricultural value chain so that best use is made of public and private investment in research and knowledge generation.
Commentary
Policies to stimulate African development require evidence that is difficult to obtain using existing indicators, writes Watu Wamae.
Report
U.S. power plants seek to diversify their fuel sources and biomass energy is a renewable resource that generally has lower life-cycle greenhouse-gas emissions than fossil fuels. This model estimates the cost and availability of biomass energy resources from U.S. agricultural lands from the perspective of an individual power plant.
Report
This study, commissioned by the UK National Audit Office, analyses the implementation of the new European Single Payment Scheme of farm payments in Germany and Finland.
Report
Answers questions about perennial polyculture farming; discusses its association with reversing environmental degradation, redressing the loss of biodiversity, and reducing worldwide hunger, malnutrition, and energy use.
Report
This study, commissioned by the UK National Audit Office, gives an overview of the introduction of single farm payments in Germany. This research details the specifics of the German payment system and the process of implementation.
Journal Article
Discusses the Impact of a major act of agricultural bio-terrorism in the United States.
Commentary
Published commentary by RAND staff.
Report
Assesses the vulnerabilities of the agricultural sector and the food chain to a deliberate act of biological terrorism and explores the likely outcomes of a successful attack
Report
Focuses on the nation's emergency management infrastructure and prioritizes a future research and development portfolio for thwarting potential terrorist bio-attacks against U.S. livestock and related produce.
Research Brief
This research brief describes work documented in Hitting America’s Soft Underbelly: The Potential Threat of Deliberate Biological Attacks Against the U.S. Agricultural and Food Industry (MG-135-OSD).
Report
Testimony presented before the Government Affairs Committee of the United States Senate on November 19, 2003.
Commentary
Published commentary by RAND staff.
Report
Testimony presented before the Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia, U.S. Senate on October 10, 2001.
Report
This report discusses the economics of Soviet agriculture from the mid-1960s to the present. In particular, it examines (1) the reasons Brezhnev's agricultural policy, designed to correct the deficiencies inherited from his predecessor, proved to be ...
Report
Develops a model of the demand for public goods, and applies the model to explain cross-sectional differences in public allocations to agricultural research in the United States. The model postulates that demanders of agricultural research on the st...
Report
An overview of Communist China's agricultural policies during the period of 1949-1968 and their impact on production and economic growth. During the land reform and First Five Year Plan, collectivization was accomplished. In the Great Leap of 1958-1...
Report
An evaluation of the impact of chemical crop destruction on the Viet Cong food supply and on the attitude of the Vietnamese peasant toward the United States and the Government of Vietnam.
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