Designing Agricultural Policy in Net Food Importers

From food aid to food security : the case of the Safety Net policy in Ethiopia

Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) is an attempt to bring food security to 5 million people by providing them with social security to close the yearly hunger gap, coupled with development projects to lift them permanently out of poverty. The programme is an example of the new policy arrangements that aim to link relief to social security and development. This paper analyses the e...

Policy Instruments in the Common Agricultural Policy

Policy changes in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) can be explained in terms of the exhaustion and long-term contradictions of policy instruments. Changes in policy instruments have reoriented the policy without any change in formal Treaty goals. The social and economic efficacy of instruments in terms of evidence-based policy analysis was a key factor in whether they were delegitimized. Th...

What Can Agricultural Land Use Planning Contribute to Food Production and Food Policy?

Food Security and Food Sovereignty are two of the most important issues facing Food Policy. Maintaining productive farmland and sustainable farms as well as providing adequate volumes of foodstuffs have led to measures to protect farmland and farm activities in many countries. These include land use planning with agricultural zones and in some jurisdictions legislation to ‘protect’ agriculture ...

Agricultural credit in ramjerd(fars province iran)-some policy considerations

Agricultural and Food Science

Mahmoud F. Seleiman1,3, Shaimaa Selim2,4, Seija Jaakkola2 and Pirjo S.A. Mäkelä1 1Department of Agricultural Sciences, Crop Science, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 27, FIN-00014, Helsinki, Finland 2Department of Agricultural Sciences, Animal Nutrition, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 28, FIN-00014, Helsinki, Finland 3Permanent address: Department of Crop Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Men...