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04-Apr-2008
This report is an analysis of the Korean agricultural sector and Korean agricultural policy. It evaluates policy reforms that have occurred since 1998 and makes recommendations for the future. In addition to reporting a wide variety of statistics with respect to Korean agriculture, it describes and makes use of two of the main OECD tools for agricultural policy analysis, the PSE and CSE database and the Policy Evaluation Model (PEM).
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17-Mar-2008
This Review measures the level and composition of support provided to Chilean agriculture, evaluates the effectiveness of current measures in attaining their objectives, and suggests ways in which the performance of policies might be enhanced.
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20-Dec-2007
12-13 November 2007 - The OECD, IFAD, World Bank and FAO jointly held a Forum on African Agricultural Development and Poverty Reduction. The objectives were to disseminate and broaden the impact of new analytical work and to share reflections and deepen understanding on a number of constraints and policy issues of importance to the agricultural sector.
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25-Oct-2007
Agricultural Policies are dominated by broad measures such as market price support and general payments to all land, animals or farmers. As a result, it is often difficult to associate a particular policy with any specific objective and yet targeting policies to meet such objectives is necessary for improving the efficiency of govenment intervention.
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23-Oct-2007
Government support to farmers in OECD countries represented 27 % of total farm receipts in 2006, a slight fall from the 29% share the previous year, according to a new OECD report. The drop was due mainly to rising world food prices rather than changes in policies, as less support was provided to prop up domestic prices.
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27-Sep-2007
Meeting organised by the Romanian Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) and the OECD's Trade and Agriculture Directorate on 24-26 September 2007 in Bucharest, Romania.
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27-Jun-2007
Reforming agricultural policies by reducing distorting support improves economic efficiency as a whole through a better allocation of resources. This implies that adjustment may have adverse effects on some agricultural households and other people engaged in the sector, in particular in the short term. There may also be negative impacts on upstream and downstream sectors and on regional economies that rely on commodities whose prices and production levels fall with reductions in support and protection.
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27-Jun-2007
Governments reform policies in order to improve their efficiency and respond to changing social priorities. Reform is resisted when concerns exist about those who may lose out in the process, or when other policy goals are negatively impacted. Compensation can remove barriers to reform by addressing this resistance.
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15-Mar-2007
Government support to agriculture is far lower in the major emerging economies than on average in the developed countries of the OECD. But it is nevertheless rising as pressure mounts to protect farmers in an increasingly competitive global marketplace, says a new OECD report.
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23-Nov-2006
This report analyses the effects of Mexico's ambitious reforms to agricultural and fisheries policies since 1990 and makes recommendations for further reforms. The evaluation is based on criteria for good agricultural and fisheries policy as agreed to by OECD countries.
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