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05-Jul-2011
This document provides guidance to national regulatory authorities in providing greater incentives to encourage applicants (manufacturers/registrants) to register agricultural pesticides (including both synthetically and naturally derived products) for minor uses. This document is based upon the results of a survey conducted in 2009 by the OECD Expert Group on Minor Uses (EGMU), which detailed available incentives in OECD countries [see survey results in publication ENV/JM/MONO(2011)14].
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01-Jul-2011
How should we manage fisheries, forestry and other 'common pool' resources, where one person's use of them means less is available for others? Nobel Prize-winning economist Elinor Ostrom explains why we must change the way we think about managing our natural resources.
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24-Jun-2011
In the run-up to the G20 summit on agriculture, the Sahel and West Africa Club/OECD organised an international conference on the impact of price volatility on African economies. The conference, part of wider G20 outreach to Africa, saw government officials and other experts discuss practical solutions and potential policy responses to food price volatility in the African context.
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21-Jun-2011
Iceland should increase the special resource tax on fishing to a level that neither causes financial difficulties in the industry nor destroys the quota system, according to the OECD Economic Survey of Iceland 2011. The government should also progressively reduce its Total Allowable Catches (TACs) from the level compatible with biological sustainability to the level that maximises resource rents where needed and tax away all of this increase in rent.
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01-Jun-2011
Trade in processed agricultural products, such as chocolates, steaks or wines, between emerging economies grew by 11.6% per year between 1995 and 2008, a new OECD study shows. Exports of these products from emerging to high-income countries also increased. However, trade in these products is still dominated by high-income countries.
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20-May-2011
A joint review is an evaluation of a pesticide dossier through work-sharing among countries. The participating regulatory authorities review the work of the primary reviewers for each particular science discipline, and the end product is used by all participating countries as the basis for regulatory decisions. This guidance document was prepared to support joint reviews to maximize opportunities of work-sharing. This guidance document includes two main phases of a joint review, planning and implementation phases, to help industries and regulatory authorities conduct the joint review process.
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11-May-2011
More efficient and equitable agricultural policies will require better targeting of income support and, in turn, better information on the income and wealth situation of the agricultural population, according to this study of Canada, the United States and the European Union.
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06-May-2011
A focus on reducing market price support is the key to effective agricultural policy reform, says this study of farm reforms in the United States, European Union, Canada, Japan, Korea and Switzerland.
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04-May-2011
South-South and Latin American regional trade agreements (RTAs) have progressed most in eliminating agricultural trade tariffs, according to this study of over 50 RTAs. However, traditionally sensitive sectors such as dairy, meat, sugar and cereals are still often protected by exemptions such as tariff rate quotas (TRQs).
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