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Prices for crops and livestock products showed diverse trends in 2014. Among crops, two years of strong harvests put further pressure on prices of cereals and oilseeds. Tighter supplies due to factors including herd rebuilding and disease outbreaks supported high meat prices, while the prices of dairy products dropped steeply from historic highs. Further adjustments to short-term factors are…

Global Affairs is a new journal by EISA and published in partnership with Taylor & Francis. The journal will focus on global affairs, including diplomacy, strategy, political economy and policy. It will: 1. Publish essays on global changes, trends, and politics among nations around the world and their policy implications for Europe 2. Feature contending perspectives on global actors,…

The world population continues to grow at about 1.5% a year. The projected figure of 7 billion for last year was reached and the UN statistics are pointing towards 8 billion for 2020. In addition, emerging world economies are undergoing significant changes in their diet. In the forthcoming decades we will therefore have to double our food production on less land per capita, with less water, often…

Cette publication d’Options Méditerranéennes (OM) réunit les travaux du réseau Foncimed présentés au séminaire de Cargèse d’octobre 2011 et de Montpellier de juillet 2013. Foncimed est un réseau méditerranéen pluridisciplinaire et interinstitutionnel d'échanges et de comparaisons d'expériences sur la question foncière. Il fonctionne depuis 2007 animé conjointement par le CIHEAM-IAMM et l'INRA-SAD…

NEW MEDIT, an OPEN ACCESS review, is a quarterly review published on behalf of the IAM in Bari, the Italian Institute of Ciheam. It is a new edition of the former journal, Medit, which was first published in 1990. Economics, agriculture, and environment are the key words of the subjects dealt with in the review. The papers tackle the different problems characterising the economy and…

This paper reviews the available data on men’s and women’s land rights, identifies what can and cannot be measured by these data, and uses these measures to assess the gaps in the land rights of women and men. Building on the conceptual framework developed in 2014 by Doss et al., we utilize nationally representative individual- and plot-level data from Bangladesh, Tajikistan, Vietnam, and Timor…