Agricultural Growth and Food Imports in Developing Countries: A Reexamination

The relationship between agricultural growth and food imports in developingcountries has recently attracted renewed interest among agricultural and trade economists. This is largely in reaction to the strong opposition by farmlobbies in the United States to development assistance programs abroad that promote foodgrain production allegedly to the detriment of U.S. agriculturalinterests,' which in turn was stimulated by the substantial fall in...