Reorienting India’s 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...

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...

1- Introduction, market risk and agricultural policy

The reaction of cattle farmers to CAP reforms under price risk depends on the farmers' technical flexibility and on the influence of direct subsidies on income stabilisation. The bovine sector subsidies, according to their rate of decoupling from product, can stabilise the income and modify the farmers' attitude towards market risk. A portfolio mutliperiod model represents a typical cattle farm...

Southern African Development Community Regional Agricultural Policy

Agricultural Biotechnology, Politics, Ethics, and Policy

T he aim of this chapter is to address the policy, regulatory, and ethical issues surrounding agricultural biotechnology. The chapter provides background on the shaping of policy and on regulatory frameworks within the European Union and the United States, among others, as well as outlining the global framework in which all countries have to operate. In addition it summarizes the United Nations...