EC agricultural and regional policy

Southern African Development Community Regional Agricultural Policy

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...

Kenya Agricultural Marketing and Policy Analysis Project Tegemeo Institute of Agricultural Policy and Development/ Egerton University Kenya Agricultural Research Institute Michigan State University Trends in Regional Agricultural Productivity in Kenya

Examining Agriculture from a Regional Perspective: Implications for the Common Agricultural Policy

Regional convergence is one of the major goals of the European Union. In this paper, the intention is to augment the existing literature on regional convergence across the NUTS-2 regions of EU-27 in terms of agricultural labour productivity during the period 1995-2004. A low annual rate of absolute convergence is estimated for the NUTS-2 regions over the period 1995-2004. The rate of regional c...

Agribusiness and the Efficiency of Agricultural Policy

A common finding in agricultural policy analysis is that agricultural policies fail to achieve their main objective of farm income support efficiently. Here it is argued that this might be the case because beside the explicit goal of supporting farm income government also pursues the implicit policy objective of supporting agribusiness. In particular, it is shown for the Austrian bread grains m...