Using Market Mechanisms to Manage Fisheries: Smoothing the Path

This study advises policy makers on how to use market mechanism instruments (such as transferable access rights and individual transferable quotas) in fisheries management.

OECD Review of Agricultural Policies - South Africa

Agricultural reform has made a major contribution to the social and economic changes in South Africa over the past decade. But what are the challenges facing the government as it attempts to broaden participation of black farmers in commercial agriculture and boost the sector’s competitiveness ?

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Workshop on Policy Coherence for Development in Fisheries

Joint Workshop on Policy Coherence for Development in Fisheries by Development Assistance Committee (DAC) and the Committee for Fisheries (COFI) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Taxation and Social Security in Agriculture

Greater integration of farming into economy-wide social safety nets or tax systems could help tackle instability and low incomes in the sector, says this study of the treatment of farmers within the tax and social security systems of OECD countries.

Multifunctionality in Agriculture: What Role for Private Initiatives?

This report sheds light on potential alternative non-government solutions to resolving problems created by agriculture practices. The approaches analysed include market mechanisms, the promotion of private transactions, and voluntary approaches.

The Implementation Costs of Agricultural Policies

An analytical framework is developed in this report in order to examine the trade-offs in policy choice between the precision of targeting, the degree of decoupling and policy related transaction costs.

Multifunctionality in Agriculture: Evaluating the degree of jointness, policy implications

These proceedings examine the nature and strength of jointness between agricultural commodity production and non-commodity outputs from the perspective of three areas important to the agricultural sector: rural development, environmental externalities and food security.

United States fisheries management system

Information on the administration, legal framework and other aspects of fisheries management in the United States.

Subsidies: A Way Towards Sustainable Fisheries?

This Policy Brief presents the key findings from the Committee for Fisheries work on the impacts of financial support on the sustainable development of the fisheries sector.