Accurate and complete information is needed to guide the formation, implementation, monitoring and assessment of agricultural policy. Obtaining both qualitative and quantitative information is vital for ensuring that policy measures are targeted, efficient and cost effective. Quantification of...

L'élaboration, la mise en oeuvre, le suivi et l'évaluation des politiques agricoles doivent être guidés par des informations précises et complètes. Il est essentiel de disposer d'informations qualitatives et quantitatives pour pouvoir bien cibler les mesures gouvernementales et en assurer...

Risk aversion has been considered a factor in mitigating the moral hazard problem in agri-environmental policy. If farmers face multiple sources of uncertainty, however, risk aversion could contribute to the problem. Focusing on a required reduction in the use of a potentially damaging input...

In seeking appropriate economic policies to address non-trade concerns (NTC), a distinction must be made between those concerns that relate to market failure and the misallocation of resources, and those that relate to distributional issues. To deal with both types of NTC, domestic policies are...

Agriculture has been the unruly horse of the GATT/WTO system for a long time and efforts to halter it are still ongoing. This Research Handbook focuses on aspects of agricultural production and trade policy that are recognized for their importance but are often kept out of the limelight, such as...