Publications and other reports 1997-1998
1 Published Work
Farm Business Data 1998 Edited by Ansell, D.J. assisted by Vaughan,
R.L., Department of Agricultural and Food Economics, The University
of Reading, 65pp.
Horticultural Business Data 1997 Edited by Vaughan, R.L.
assisted by Crane, R.T., Department of Agricultural and Food Economics,
The University of Reading, 71pp. Ansell, D.J. and Tranter, R.B.
(Eds)
Management Matters in 1998. Farm Management Unit, The University
of Reading, Study No 37, May 1998, 53pp.
Bennett, R.M. The Non-market Costs of Rabies Policy. The
Veterinary Record, 141, 1997, 127-128.
Bennett, R.M. and Tranter, R.B. Assessing the Benefits of
Public Access to the Countryside. Planning Practice and Research,12,
1997, 213-222.
Bennett, R.M. Measuring Public Support for Animal Welfare
Legislation: a Case Study of Cage Egg Production. Animal Welfare,
7, 1998, 1-10.
Bennett, R.M. and Hallam, D. Implications of BSE Policy for
Livestock Production and Veterinary Services in the UK. The Veterinary
Record, 142, 1998, 155-159.
Bennett, R.M. and Tranter, R.B. The Dilemma Concerning Choice
of Contingent Valuation Willingness-to-Pay Elicitation Format. Journal
of Environmental Planning and Management, 41, 1998, 253-257.
Bennett, R.M. The Economics of Welfare in Companion Animals.
In: Michell, A.R. and Ewbank, R. (eds), Proceedings of a
RCVS/UFAW symposium ‘Ethics, Welfare, Law and Market Forces:
The Veterinary Interface’. The Royal College of Veterinary
Surgeons, London: November 1996, Universities’ Federation for
Animal Welfare, 1998, 135-141.
Collins, E.J.T. Power Availability and Agricultural Productivity
in England and Wales 1840-1939. Discussion Paper Series No 1, Rural
History Centre, The University of Reading, 1997, 25pp.
Giles, A.K. The Guv’nors (A Personal Account of ‘Bosses’
Over the Years), published privately, 1997, 95pp.
Giles, A.K. Management: a Personal Retrospect. Rural Management
and Human Resources Journal 1 (3), 1997, 9pp.
Giles, A.K. Farm Management 1967-1998. (A Consolidated Subject
Index of Articles appearing in the First Nine Volumes), The Institute
of Agricultural Management, The University of Reading, 1998, 20pp.
Ivanova, N., Mishev, P., Hallam, D. and Tsoneva, M. Agricultural
Supply Response Analysis in Bulgaria over the Transition Period.
Bulgarian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 3, 1997, 363-372.
McQueen, M., Phillips, C., Hallam, D. and Swinbank, A. ACP-EU
Trade and Aid Cooperation: Post Lomé IV. Economic Paper 12,
Commonwealth Secretariat, London: 1998, 169pp.
McQueen, M., Phillips, C, Hallam, D. and Swinbank, A. ACP-EU
Trade and Aid Cooperation Post Lomé IV. In: The House of
Commons International Development Committee, Renegotations of the
Lomé Convention, Volume II Minutes of Evidence and Appendices,
Fourth Report Session 1997-98. HMSO, London: 1998, 244-254.
Heasman, M. and Henson, S.J. The Costs and Benefits of Food
Regulations. British Food Journal 99 (5), 1997, 1-11.
Henson, S.J. The Role of Fruit and Vegetables in the UK
Diet. In: Vaughan, R.L. and Crane, R.T. (eds) Horticultural Business
Data 1997. Department of Agricultural and Food Economics, The University
of Reading, 1998, 1-6.
Henson, S.J. and Northen, J. Public and Private Regulations
of Food Safety: the case of the UK fresh meat sector. In: Schiefer,
G. and Helbig, R. (eds), Quality Management and Process Improvement
for Competitive Advantage in Agriculture and Food. The University
of Bonn, Germany: 1997, 85-104.
Caswell, J. and Henson, S.J. Interaction of Private and
Public Food Quality Control Systems in Global Markets. In: Loader,
R.J., Henson, S.J. and Traill, W.B. (eds), Proceedings of the European
Association of Agricultural Economists conference on Globalisation
of the Food Industry: Policy Implications. Department of Agricultural
and Food Economics, The University of Reading, 1997, 217-236.
Henson, S.J. The Impact of Regulations on Consumers and
the Food Chain Industries. In: Marshall, B. and Miller, F.A. (eds),
Management of Regulation in the Food Chain: Balancing Costs, Benefits
and Effects. Centre for Agricultural Strategy, The University of
Reading, 1997, 62-73.
Loader, R.J., Henson, S.J. and Traill, W.B. (Eds) Globalisation
of the Food Industry: Policy Implications. Proceedings of the European
Association of Agricultural Economists conference on Globalisation
of the Food Industry: Policy Implications. Centre for Food Economics
Research, Department of Agricultural and Food Economics, The University
of Reading, 1997, 615pp.
Marsh, J.S. The Common Agricultural Policy. In: Stavridis,
S., Mossialos, E., Morgan, R. and Machin, H. (eds), New Challenges
to the European Union. Dartmouth Publishers, 1997, 401-437.
Marsh, J.S. Food Aid and Trade. In: Mepham, B. (ed), Food
Ethics. Routledge, 1997, 18-34.
Marsh, J.S. Look at it this way - The Common Agricultural
Policy. Outlook on Agriculture, 27 (1), 1998, 13-18.
Marsh, J.S. The Final Frontier: Forced Entry to the Garden
of Eden. Biologist, 45 (3), 1998, page 144.
Stansfield, J.M. Country Ways. Commissioned by the Arthur
Rank Centre, Stoneleigh, Warwickshire, A regular quarterly contribution
eg. Health and Safety Animal Welfare, Summer 1997, page 24, Spring
1998, page 32.
Swinbank, A. The CAP Decision-making Process. In: Ritson,
C. and Harvey, D.R. (eds), The Common Agricultural Policy (2nd edition).
CAB International, Wallingford: 1997, 57-80.
Swinbank, A. The New CAP. In: Ritson, C. and Harvey, D.R.
(eds), The Common Agricultural Policy (2nd edition). CAB International,
Wallingford: 1997, 95-111.
Ritson, C. and Swinbank, A. Europe’s Green Money. In:
Ritson, C. and Harvey, D.R. (eds), The Common Agricultural Policy
(2nd edition). CAB International, Wallingford: 1997, 115-137.
Harris, S. and Swinbank, A. The CAP and the Food Industry.
In: Ritson, C. and Harvey, D.R. (eds), The Common Agricultural Policy
(2nd edition). CAB International, Wallingford: 1997, 265-283.
Swinbank, A. Mr Peter Sutherland. The University of Reading
Bulletin. 307, The University of Reading, 1997, 10-11.
Tanner, C. and Swinbank, A. Agricultural Trade Liberalisation:
Regionalism versus Multilateralism. In: Levy-Livermore, A. (ed),
Handbook on the Globalisation of the World Economy. Edward Elgar,
Cheltenham: 1998, 619-648.
Swinbank, A. World Trade Liberalisation, EU Enlargement
and a Growing World Economy: Implications for European Agriculture.
In: Wallace, I. (ed), Rural Knowledge Systems for the 21st Century:
Rural Extension in Western, Central and Eastern Europe. Proceedings
of the Symposium held at Reading, Cambridge and Edinburgh on 6-17
July 1997, Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development,
The University of Reading, 1998, 2-14.
Piesse, J. and Thirtle, C.G. Sector Level Efficiency and
Productivity: Hungarian Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Industries
1985-91. Eastern European Economics, 35 (4), 1997,
5-39.
Townsend, R. and Thirtle, C.G. Production Incentives for
Small Scale Farmers in Zimbabwe: The Case of Cotton and Maize.
Agrekon, 36 (3), 1997, 251-267.
Townsend, R., van Zyl, J. and Thirtle, C.G. Assessing the
Benefits of Research Expenditures on Maize Production in South Africa.
Agrekon, 36 (4), 1997, 585-597.
Townsend, R., van Zyl, J. and Thirtle, C.G. Machinery and
Labour Biases of Technical Change in South African Agriculture:
A Cost Function Approach. Agrekon, 36 (4), 1997, 492-500.
van Zyl, J., Thirtle, C.G., Schimmelpfennig, D.S. and Khatri,
Y. Nature and Returns to Research and Development in South African
Commercial Agriculture. Science, Technology and Development,
15 (2), 1997, 272-288.
Thirtle, C.G., Palladino, P. and Piesse, J. On the Organisation
of Agricultural Research in Great Britain, 1945-1994: A Quantitative
Description and Appraisal of Recent Reforms. Research Policy,
26, 1997, 557-576.
Lusigi, A., Piesse, J. and Thirtle, C.G. Convergence of
Per Capita Incomes and Agricultural Productivity in Africa. Journal
of International Development, 10 (1), 1998, 105-115.
Townsend, R. and Thirtle, C.G. The Effects of Macroeconomic
Policy on South African Agriculture: Implications for Exports, Prices
and Farm Incomes. Journal of International Development,
10, 1998, 117-128.
Khatri, Y., Thirtle, C.G. and Townsend, R.
Testing the Induced Innovation Hypothesis: A Third Order Cost Function
Approach Applied to UK Agriculture. Economics of Innovation and
New Technology, 6, 1998, 1-28.
Thirtle, C.G. The Hesitant Recovery of African Agriculture,
editor’s introduction to a Policy Arena. Journal of International
Economics, 10 (1), 1998, 71-73.
Thirtle, C.G. and Townsend, R. Supply Response at the Crop
Level: Nerlove and Error Correction Models. In: de Frahan, B.H.
(ed), Supply Response within the Farming Systems Context. Training
Manule for Module 4, NATURA/NECTAR Programme, EC NATURA, 1997, 27pp.
Thirtle, C.G. and Khatri, Y. Long Run Aggregate Response:
Profit Function and TFP Approaches. In: de Frahan, B.H. (ed), Supply
Response within the Farming Systems Context. Training Manule for
Module 4, NATURA/NECTAR Programme, EC NATURA, 1997, 23pp.
Thirtle, C.G. and Townsend, R. Case Studies of Supply Response
in Zimbabwe and South Africa. In: de Frahan, B.H. (ed), Supply Response
within the Farming Systems Context. Training Manule for Module 4,
NATURA/NECTAR Programme, EC NATURA, 1997, 25pp.
van Zyl, J. and Thirtle, C.G. The Relationship Between Farm
Size and the Technical Inefficiency of Wheat Farmers in the Eastern
Free State. Agrekon, 37 (1), 1998, 110-116.
Townsend, R., Khatri, Y. and Thirtle, C.G. Biases of Technical
Change in South African Agriculture: A Cost Function Approach. Journal
of Studies in Economics and Econometrics, 22 (2), 1998, 15-27.
van Zyl, J. and Thirtle, C.G. (Eds) Productivity, Efficiency
and Land Markets in South African Agriculture. Human Science Research
Council Printers, Pretoria: 1998, iii+169pp.
Thirtle, C.G. and van Zyl, J. Explaining Total factor Productivity
Growth and the Returns on Research and Extension in South African
Agriculture, 1947-1991. In: van Zyl, J and Thirtle, C.G. (eds),
Productivity, Efficiency and Land Markets in South African Agriculture.
Human Science Research Council Printers, Pretoria: 1998, 29-39.Khatri,
Y.,
Thirtle, C.G. and van Zyl, J. Sources of Productivity Growth
in South African Agriculture, 1947-1991: A Profit Function Approach.
In: van Zyl, J and Thirtle, C.G. (eds), Productivity, Efficiency
and Land Markets in South African Agriculture. Human Science Research
Council Printers, Pretoria: 1998, 41-57.
Khatri, Y., Thirtle, C.G. and van Zyl, J.
Research and Productivity Growth in South African Agriculture, 1947-1991:
The Two Stage Decomposition Approach. In: van Zyl, J and Thirtle,
C.G. (eds), Productivity, Efficiency and Land Markets in South African
Agriculture. Human Science Research Council Printers, Pretoria:
1998, 59-99.
Piesse, J., Sartorious von Bach, H., Thirtle, C.G. and van Zyl,
J.
Efficiency of Smallholder Agriculture in South Africa: Evidence
from the Farmer Support Programme. In: van Zyl, J and Thirtle, C.G.
(eds), Productivity, Efficiency and Land Markets South African Agriculture,
Human Science Research Council Printers, Pretoria: 1998. 113-134.
Piesse, J., van Zyl, J. and Thirtle, C.G. Farmer Support
and the Drought: Effects of Efficiency of Food Production in the
Former South African Homeland. In: van Zyl, J and Thirtle, C.G.
(eds), Productivity, Efficiency and Land Markets in South African
Agriculture. Human Science Research Council Printers, Pretoria:
1998, 135-141.
Pitts, E. and Traill, W.B. (Eds) Competitiveness in the
Food Industries, Blackie Academic and Professional, London: 1998,
301pp.
Traill, W.B. Uncompetitiveness in a Primary Product: does
Porter help the Case of UK Horticulture? In: Pitts, E. and Traill,
W.B. (eds), Competitiveness in the Food Industries. Blackie Academic
and Professional, London: 1998, 118-148.
Traill, W.B. and Grunert, K.G. (Eds) Product and Process
Innovation in the Food Industries. Blackie Academic and Professional,
London: 1997, 242pp.
Traill, W.B.
Structural Changes in the European Food Industry: Consequences for
Innovation. In: Traill, W.B. and Grunert, K.G. (eds), Product and
Process Innovation in the Food Industries, Blackie Academic and
Professional, London: 1997, 38-58.
Grunert, K.G., Harmsen, H., Meulenberg, M. and Traill, W.B.
Innovation in the Food Sector: a Revised Framework. In: Traill,
W.B. and Grunert, K.G. (eds), Product and Process Innovation in
the Food Industries. Blackie Academic and Professional, London:
1997, 213-226.
Upton, M. Intensification or Extensification: which has
the lowest environmental burden? World Animal Review, 88
(1), 1997, 21-29.
Upton, M. Household Models (Econometrics). In: de Frahan,
B.H. (ed), NECTAR Module 5.2, Supply Response within the Farming
Systems Context, EC NATURA. 1997, 261-276.
Upton, M. and James, A.D. 1: Measurements of Outputs, Inputs
and Productivity, 2: Economic Valuation and Returns, 3: Provision
and Financing of Services, 4: Summary and Overview. In: Leslie,
J. (ed), The Economics of Livestock Systems - Module 4, NECTAR/EU.
1997, each document 20pp.
Upton, M. 1: Inter-household Decision Making, 2: Summary
and Round-up of the Module. In: Rural Resource Economics and Rural
Development - Module 5, NECTAR/EU. 1998, Document 1-24pp, Document
2-12pp.
Valli, C. The International Food Market Segmentation: a
Conceptual Framework for the Operationalisat-ion of Segmentation
Results in a Pan-European
Context. In: Loader, R.J., Henson, S.J. and Traill, W.B. (eds),
Proceedings of the European Association of Agricultural Economists
conference on Globalisation of the Food Industry: Policy Implications.
Centre for Food Economics Research, Department of Agricultural and
Food Economics, The University of Reading, 1997, 141-160.
Nyariki, D. and Wiggins, S.L. Household Food Insecurity
in sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons from Kenya. British Food Journal,
99 (7), 1997, 249-262.
Mdoe, N. and Wiggins, S.L. Returns to Smallholder Dairying
in the Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania. Agricultural Economics,
17, 1997, 75-87.2
Commissioned reports and other substantial unpublished written
work
Ansell, D.J., Department of Agricultural and Food Economics,
The University of Reading and Andersons (Farm Business Consultants)Economic
Evaluation of the Arable Area Payment Scheme. Commissioned by the
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, 1997, 85pp.
Bennett, R.M., Christiansen, K.H. and Clifton-Hadley, R.S.
An Economic Study of Non-notifiable Diseases of Farm Animals. Commissioned
by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, 1997, Vol 1,
29pp, and Vol 2, 331pp.
Jones, P.J. and Bennett, R.M.
Investigating the Impacts of BSE in Wales using the Land Use Allocation
Model. Commissioned by the Welsh Office, 1997, 55pp.
Carruthers, S.P., Harris, P.M., Tranter, R.B., Jones, S., Miller,
F.A., Bennett, R.M., Davis, L., Stopes, C.E., Lennartsson, M. and
Rayns, F. Organic Herbage Legume Intercropping. Commissioned
by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, 1997, 282pp.
Jones, P., Hallam, D., Rehman, T. and Little, G.P.J.
Investigating the Impact of Agenda 2000 CAP Reform Proposals using
the Land Use Allocation Model. Commissioned by the Ministry of Agriculture,
Fisheries and Food, 1998, 58pp.
Henson, S.J. Costs Associated with Divergent National Product
Standards and Conformity Assessment Procedures and the Impact on
International Trade. OECD, Paris: 1997, 12pp.
Traill, W.B, Loader, R.J. and Valli, C. A Consumer Approach
to Foods in the EU: Development of Comprehensive Market- Oriented
Strategies:Final Report, (Project AIR2-CT94-1066). Commissioned
by the European Union, 1998, 50pp.
Upton, M., van Weperen, W., Mwazyunga, P. and Munster, B.
Kagera Livestock Development Programme (KALIDEP) Phase II. Commissioned
by the Royal Netherlands Embassy, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: 1997,
vii+74pp.
Upton, M. Farm Level Data - Their Role and Need in a Market
Economy. Commissioned by the FAO, 1997, 20pp.
Upton, M. Prospects for Food Security in the Near East Region:
A Follow Up to the World Food Summit Plan of Action. Commissioned
by the FAO, Near East Regional Office, 1997, 28pp.
