Policy reform and adjustment in the agricultural sectors of developed countries /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2006.
• Subjects: Agriculture and state > North America.; Agriculture > Economic aspects > North America.; Economic stabilization > North America.; Agriculture > Economic aspects > European Union countries.; Agriculture and state > European Union countries.; Economic stabilization > European Union countries.; Agricultural Economics.; Policy and Planning.; Structure, Ownership and Tenure.; Agricultural policy.; Agricultural sector.; Agriculture structure.; Structural adjustment.; Structural change.; Transition economies.; Electronic books.
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This book focuses on the policy implications of growing pressures for economic adjustment in the agricultural sectors of developed countries. Selected papers from an international workshop at Imperial College, London in October 2003 and an international symposium in Philadelphia in the spring of 200...

Table of Contents:

• Agricultural adjustment and policy reform : introduction / David Blandford and Berkeley Hill
• Structural change in European agriculture / Berkeley Hill
• Structural change in US agriculture / James M. MacDonald, Robert Hoppe, and David Banker
• Pressures for adjustment in the agricultural sectors of developed countries / David Blandford
• Policy reform and adjustment in the European Union : changes in the common agricultural policy and enlargement / Pierre Bascou, Pierluigi Londero, and Wolfgang Münch
• Policy reform and US agricultural adjustment capacity / Mary E. Burfisher, Kenneth Hanson, Jeffrey Hopkins and Agapi Somwaru
• Agricultural policy reform and adjustment in Australia and New Zealand / David Harris and Allan Rae
• The Swedish agricultural policy reform of 1990 / Ewa Rabinowicz
• Agricultural policy reform and structural adjustment in Korea and Japan / Hanho Kim and Yong-Kee Lee
• Policy reform and agricultural adjustment in transition countries / Johan F.M. Swinnen
• The reform of grain transportation policy and transformation in western Canadian agriculture / Darcie Doan, Brian Paddock, and Jan Dyer
• The US peanut quota buyout : sectoral adjustment to policy change under the 2002 Farm Act / Erik Dohlman, Linwood Hoffman, Edwin Young and William McBride
• What affects farmers' ability to adjust : evidence from the United States / Jeffrey Hopkins, Mitch Morehart, and James Johnson
• Differences in farm performance and adjustment to change : a perspective from The Netherlands / Krijn J. Poppe and Hans van Meijl
• Policies affecting resource adjustment in agriculture in the European Union / Carmel Cahill and Berkeley Hill
• Policy for agricultural adjustment in the United States / David Blandford and Richard N. Boisvert
• Adjustment policy for agriculture in developed countries / David Blandford and Berkeley Hill.