Today the world is facing a greater water crisis than ever. Droughts of lesser magnitude are
resulting in greater impact. Even in years with normal precipitation, water shortages have …

The increasing acknowledgement of the role of SMEs in economic growth and reducing
unemployment in SSA brings forth the need for research into understanding the role and …

Shadow prices guide farmers' resource allocations, but for subsistence farmers who grow
traditional crops they may bear little relationship with market prices. We theoretically derive …

Prices may fail to explain farmers' land allocation if the relevant decision prices are “shadow
prices” that deviate from market prices. This may be the case for farmers who attach …

Discussions of failure in public policy have been hampered by a lack of consensus on a
definition of the term 'failure'. It can be shown that arguments relating to policy failure tend to …

Many Australian farmers and rural communities have been experiencing hardship from the
latest severe and prolonged drought. While this is not new to dryland farming,'irrigation …

Background This report is one of four prepared by the Social Sciences Program, Bureau of
Rural Sciences, to support investigations of the social impacts of drought as part of the …

Rural and regional parts of Australia have consistently faced the interplay of three distinct
challenges: the viability of small-scale agriculture as a basis for farm family and settlement …

With greater calls for public involvement, there are now claims of methodological shifts to
'bottom-up','politically informed'and 'boundary-less' approaches. This is not accurate as there …

The Commonwealth government has offered support to farmers in the form of structural or
business adjustment‐type schemes since the Loan (Farmers Debt Adjustment) Acts of 1935 …