Agricultural Policies in Emerging Economies: Monitoring and Evaluation 2009
Policy responses to rising food prices included tariff reductions, export restrictions, increased minimum prices and price controls, input subsidies, sales of stocks and direct transfers to the most disadvantaged.
Other major common policy developments included: expanded government-supported credit facilities and/or debt rescheduling, endeavours to improve the delivery and performance of agricultural policies, extended coverage of insurance programmes and further efforts in land reform.
A comprehensive statistical annex containing a wide range of contextual information for these economies is also included in this report.
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