Review the commonly pursued governmental agricultural policies, summarize and collate the results of some of the studies of peasant supply responsiveness. Identify the reasons for the different results across crops and countries and discuss the areas deserving further attention.

The law of supply is one of the simplest and most powerful predictions of neoclassical economic theory. However, like all theories, it is based upon a number of assumptions, departure from which may jeopardise its predictions. This book investigates such departures and the possibility that they may result in perverse supply response in agriculture.