The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA) is an association of industry representatives, and state, territorial, provincial, and federal government officials in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The CVSA's goal is to improve commercial vehicle safety. The CVSA concentrates its safety focus on three areas; driver, vehicle, and hazardous materials....
In the majority of the less developed countries the small-scale
peasant agriculture is the dominant sector of the countries' economies.
The successes of major agricultural programs in order to increase the
potentials depend primarily on the understanding of the economic organizations
of the peasant households.
This study analyzed over a...
The agriculture production system in the post-war United States is characterized
as highly specialized and increasingly dependent on off-farm inputs. Although the US
has traditionally supported agriculture with numerous government commodity programs
such as target prices, nonrecourse loans, and deficiency payments, agriculture today is
perceived as one of the major...
Policy analysts designing programs to improve the
efficiency and expand the use of water in the irrigation of
farm lands often enlist benefit-cost analysis as a means of
assessing impacts and feasibility. While on-site comparisons
of costs and benefits are important factors in project
assessment, other dimensions such as risk,...
Farmers in the high plateau region of Algeria are
assumed to exhibit risk averse behavior, particularly, due
to highly variable weather conditions inducing income
instability over time. This in turn directly affects their
production behavior. The Eastern High Plateau (Setif) is
not a homogeneous region. In the El-Eulma daira, for...
El Salvador's land resources are intensively cultivated.
Labor is relatively abundant and wages are low. This study
analyzed the effects of government policies and observed farm
price distortions on enterprise/weed control system choices
and associated income-employment effects.
A regional linear programming framework was employed to
analyze the effects of alternative...