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The problems of Japanese agriculture – in particular low productivity and the prevalence of part-time farmers and small plots have been evident for the past 50 years. The high level and distortionary nature of agriculture support imposes burdens on consumers and taxpayers, undermines the...
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This paper examines the heavily supported Swiss food and agriculture sector. It reviews some of the key features and …
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Switzerland meets its target rate of gross food production. But border protection is unlikely to deliver the other outcomes and …
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of policies aimed at price stabilisation and food security, with a view to identifying alternatives to meet the same … policy objectives. The paper then examines the most direct alternative to public food stocks for price stabilisation, namely … argued to be necessary for food security, the paper also explores alternative approaches that governments may take to meeting …
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catalogue of targets and policies for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions in the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU …) sector. It covers 20 countries which collectively account for nearly half of the world’s AFOLU emissions. Most of these … countries have recently set targets within their AFOLU sector as part of national climate mitigation strategies and commitments …
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depending on the country. The data indicate that export measures were applied across the whole spectrum of agricultural and food …
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that countries are likely to make efforts to reduce the trade hindering effects of domestic food regulation within regional …
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In 2016, the People’s Republic of China removed its support prices for maize and started destocking its large public reserves of maize. This paper investigates what would happen if China were to also eliminate its support prices for rice and wheat and reduce its public stocks of these two...
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Foreign direct investment (FDI) and trade are driving forces in agro-food global value chains (GVCs), allowing … the agriculture and food sectors, using a novel database of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) covering the period 1997 …-2017. The study finds that FDI plays an important role in driving participation in agro-food GVCs, underscoring the close …
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Reforming China’s grain policy could have significant implications for both domestic and international markets. China has begun to reform its price support policies for several commodities, replacing them with commodity specific area payments. The assessment of policy reform scenarios for...
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