Meet the editor

Surendra N. Kulshreshtha is currently a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon. He received his PhD in Agricultural Economics from the University of Manitoba. He was a visiting scientist at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis at Laxenburg, Austria. He has also participated in several oversees projects in Indonesia, Zambia, and India through the

Canadian International Development Agency. His past research has been in the areas of commodity markets, econometric models, economic impact analysis models, greenhouse gas emissions, climate change, and impacts on agriculture, including extreme events (droughts) in the Canadian Prairie Provinces. Based on his contributions, in 2004 the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society selected him as a Fellow of the Society.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

**Section 3**

**Section 4**

**Preface III**

Introduction **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

Marketing **9**

**Chapter 2 11**

Resource Economics **29**

**Chapter 3 31** Effects of Water Scarcity on the Performances of the Agricultural Sector and

**Chapter 4 49**

Environmental Issues **67**

**Chapter 5 69**

*by Ali Chebil, Aymen Frija, Mariem Makhlouf, Chokri Thabet and Sihem Jebari*

Local Techniques for Crop Conservation in Burkina Faso: Analysis of the

Valorization Status and Perception of Tilgr-Baore Technology

Value Chain-Induced Constraints Limiting Scale of Conservation

*by Wolfgang Johann von Loeper, Scott Drimie and James Blignaut*

*by Kala Brigitte Hema, Bienlo Annick Marina Paré and* 

Date Palm Value Chain Analysis and Marketing Opportunities for the Gulf

*by Boubaker Dhehibi, Mohamed Ben Salah and Aymen Frija*

Introductory Chapter: Agricultural Economics

Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries

Adaptation Strategies in Tunisia

*Marie-Thérèse Arcens Somé*

Agriculture in South Africa

*by Surendra N. Kulshreshtha*
