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Since 2000, ‘The System of Direct Payment of Subsidies to Farmers in Hilly and Mountainous Areas’ is in operation in Japan. The objective of this paper is to evaluate and survey Japan’s policy for less favoured areas. This system has two characteristics: ‘coverage subsidies for...
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The relationship between multifunctionality and the roles of rural communities has not been discussed fully although the connection between the two is an essential issue in the rural policy arena. Pursuing this issue, this paper considers that multifunctional hamlet activities are generated as...
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Likely policy changes leading towards further liberalisation of the Common Agricultural Policy would certainly influence farmers’ income and revenue risks. Thus, a question arises both for farmers and for policy makers about possible effects and necessary adjustments that should be made to...
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Korean agriculture has been facing several structural problems resulting from rapid structural changes since 1960's, some of which are preventing a smooth policy reform in accordance with the WTO regime. Political burden from rice monoculture, policy ineffectiveness from too large farm...
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Despite many common features in agricultural sector, Korea and Japan have passed through quite different paths of structural adjustment. An important consequence of the different structural adjustment paths is full-time vs. part-time based farming system. As far as policy reforms are concerned,...
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This paper briefly traces the main features of the Common Agriculural Policy (CAP), and of the transition process in the agriculural sectors of Central and Eastern European countries. The EU Commission proposal for the integration of the new members into the CAP is examined, in order to asses...
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agriculture assistance that could be withheld from farmers who fail to comply with highly erodible land conservation (conservation … compliance and sodbuster) or wetland conservation (swampbuster) provisions, known collectively as environmental compliance … subject to compliance through existing Federal agricultural programs(e.g., conservation or disaster programs) or programs that …
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Estimation of the effects of greening the EU Common Agricultural Policy in Poland in the perspective of 2014 on the example of FADN farms. Taking into account the environmental functions in the draft of Common Agricultural Policy for 2014-2020. Proposals for the system of direct payments after...
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Global challenges and the future of the CAP. The CAP from a global agriculture perspective. The CAP after 2013: an assessment of the Commission’s proposals for changing Pillar I. Price Volatility and Price Risk in the Agro-food Markets and the Future Development of the Common Agricultural...
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The paper discusses the design of optimal regulatory policies under an alternative analytical framework of unbounded and bounded rationality, by considering the mechanism that provides the type of the optimal CAP instruments that ensure the collective attainment of a social environmental target,...
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