Developing countries have been demanding substantial reduction in trade distorting domestic support to agriculture given by the developed countries. On the other hand, under the existing rules of the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) many developing countries lack policy space to implement price...

The dynamic nature of changes in the macroeconomic environment and various views of Member States on the future of the Common Agricultural Policy in the European Union cause that its shape is usually a result of various forces and factors. They are both, exogenous, related to the situation on...

The Common Agricultural Policy has changed significantly over time. Major changes are now introduced every seven years, with the last fundamental change agreed upon in 2013 for the period 2014-2020. Policymakers also agreed to a mid-term review in order to evaluate the performance of numerous...

Considering the current and future dynamics of the agricultural sector, Ecuador’s national agricultural policy is in a process of adjustment in order to structurally strengthen the sector. One of the policies being analyze is the technological kit given under the framework of the subsidies...

With the 1996 Farm Act, the United States introduced payments that were designed to be "decoupled". Labor allocation choices are likely to be affected by receipt of payments, and income from off-farm jobs has been the major source of income for most farm households for sometime. This article...

The overall purpose of this Note is to fully evaluate the June 2003 reforms to the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) which have been hailed as revolutionary. My overall thesis is that while the 2003 reforms are significant, most of the change thus far has been purely ideological....

The paper focuses on possible scenarios of EU CAP reforms after 2013. It uses linguistic analysis in order to analyze the discourse of EU Agriculture commissioners. One of the conclusions of the paper is that one of the main catalyst of EU CAP reform discussion is the issue of climate change. We...