Based on the comprehensive Impact assessment of potential changes to the CAP thataccompanied the HC legal proposals tabled by the Commission on 20th May 2008, this paperfocuses on the impact analysis of options for adjustment of the Single Payment Scheme. It isput in evidence the distributional...

The Chinese government introduced some pro-farmed policies in the mid 1990s. This has caused some concerns from other countries on whether and how such policy initiatives would affect China's agricultural trade. This study uses OECD's methodology to calculate producer support estimates (PSEs)...

The vast majority of domestic support to farmers in the European Union (EU) is notified in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) green box as decoupled payments. The EU considers this support to minimally distort production and/or trade. As demonstrated in the literature, this claim is...

A method for taking uncertainty into account when formulating aggregate agricultural policies is applied to the feed grain program. The impact of alternative feed grain programs on net farm income, Government payments, and feed grain production in the Southeastern Coastal Plains is shown. A...

Five factors are found to have had a significant effect on U.S. acreage of wheat planted during 1961-74: (1) acreage allotment, (2) additional diversion for payment through 1970, (3) set-aside acres in 1971-73, (4) relaxation of allotment restrictions, and (5) the market price of wheat for the...

Este articulo aborda como la progresiva integracion de las consideraciones ambientales en las politicas agrarias conlleva la reconfiguracion de los derechos de propiedad sobre la tierra. En este sentido, el articulo plantea como los propietarios de la tierra han encontrado en dicho proceso una...

La situacion alimentaria mundial s ha agravado desde los anos 2007-2008 con una brutal elevacion de los precios de los productos alimentarios que ha incrementado sensiblemente el numero de personas que sufren sintomas de hambre. El analisis de los factores coyunturales y estructurales de esta...

An integrated policy evaluation tool is proposed for assessing the effects of agricultural policy measures using all the information available at farm level. The tool combines the positive mathematical programming methodology with the cluster analysis technique by using the same panel of data....

Recently, the OECD prepared a detailed review of Ukraine's agricultural policies and potential that included Producer Support Estimates (PSE) calculations. Canada provided a peer-review of this paper. It provides a preview of the caliber and range of information that can be expected from the...