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Farm policy reform urgent amid rising world food prices - OECD report
26-Jun-2008
The rise in global food prices has made further reform of market-distorting farm policies all the more urgent, says Agricultural Policies in OECD Countries: At a Glance. Current policies are limiting the ability of farmers to respond to market signals, to become more competitive and innovative, and thus contribute to improving the global food situation.
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02-Jun-2008
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 secur
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14-May-2008
Governments intervene in the agricultural sector through policies that both support and shape agricultural production. This leads to two important outcomes. First, agriculture specific programmes intended to increase the welfare of farmers can become capitalised into asset values. Second, many policies, in particular regulatory ones, reduce asset mobility, resulting in reduced economic efficiency due a sub-optimal allocation of resources.
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18-Apr-2008
Are current agricultural policies based on measurable objectives? Is the current policy set adequately addressing stated objectives? What could an improved agricultural policy set look like and how to get onto a reform trajectory?
These are some of the questions addressed in this publication. It draws on several projects that were undertaken in recent years under the auspices of the OECD and summarizes practical recommendations concerning the pathway to agricultural policy reform.
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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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Government support to farmers falls slightly amid higher world food prices
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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