Future emphasis of agricultural policy ought to be on maximizing rural household incomes rather than generating food surpluses.
Quotas became a popular contract criterion, and households were entitled to retain their production surpluses.
After 1815, despite the depression, most lighthouses were still generating large surpluses.
If they are not rather elastic over the ranges of concern, governments will find it hard not to pay large suppliers' surpluses.
However, surpluses on single farms reach 85 kg ha -1.
When rainfall events are positively correlated, surpluses and shortages occur at the same time in both regions.
Since many rural households face constraints of all sorts when they turn to capital markets, they are often forced to invest their own accumulated surpluses.
Most industrial countries had achieved sustained food surpluses by the second half of the twentieth century.
