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Casting Bread Upon the Water: Comments on Technology, Globalization, and Agriculture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Patricia A. Duffy
Patricia A. Duffy*
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Auburn University, Auburn, AL
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The issues raised in this paper session—concerning technical change, globalization, and chronic low returns in agriculture—are of long-standing importance in our profession. The papers, like many policy discussions in our discipline, have focussed largely on the U.S. agricultural sector. In this comment I will make some remarks relative to the domestic situation, but would also like to branch out a bit to address the worldwide impact of changing technology and increasingly open markets.

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Invited Paper Sessions
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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , August 2001 , pp. 341 - 347
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Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 2001

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