The economics of regulation in agriculture : compliance with public and private standards /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2012.
• Subjects: Agriculture > Economic aspects.; Agriculture > Environmental aspects.; Agricultural laws and legislation > Compliance costs.; Agriculture and state.; Environmental policy.; Laws and Regulations.; Agricultural Economics.; Natural Resource Economics, (New March 2000); Policy and Planning.; International Trade.; Animal Welfare.; Human Health and Biology (General), (Revised June 2002); Agricultural policy.; Agricultural sector.; Animal welfare.; Costs.; Economic impact.; Health.; International trade.; Regulations.; Standards.; Terms of trade.; Electronic books.
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This volume investigates the cost implications and competitiveness effects resulting from regulations and standards in the fields of environment, human health and animal welfare and production-linked rules of "good agricultural conditions" for a range of agricultural products in the EU, US...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction / Floor Brouwer, Glenn Fox and Roel Jongeneel
• The role of cross compliance in greening EU agricultural policy / Kaley Hart, Martin Farmer and David Baldock
• State and federal responses to increasing input intensity in the US / Jonathan Winsten and Lynn G. Knight
• Canadian agricultural environmental policy: from the right to farm to farming right / Predrag Rajsic, Elizabeth Ramlal and Glenn Fox / Decentralized, outcome oriented management of agricultural environmental issues in New Zealand / Anton Meister and Nicole Beechey
• Voluntary certification schemes and legal standards in the EU / Roel Jongeneel and Thomas Herzfeld
• Environmental and health standards in the dairy sectors of the EU, the US and New Zealand / Irina Bezlepkina, Roel Jongeneel, Floor Brouwer, Koen Dillen, Anton Meister, Kees de Roest and Matty Demont
• An EU/US perspective on nutrient management policies and growth hormone bans in the beef sector / Kees de Roest, Jonathan Winsten and Koen Dillen
• Good agricultural and environmental conditions in the EU and their implications for international trade in cereals / Roel Jongeneel, Xavier Poux and Glenn Fox
• Trade effects of environmental and animal welfare standards in the hog sectors of the EU, US and Canada / Kees de Roest, Jonathan Winsten, Predeg Rajsic and Koen Dillen
• Environmental standards in the fruits and vegetables sector of Spain / Consuelo Varela-Ortega and Paloma Esteve
• Evaluating WTO institutions for resolving trade disputes involving non-tariff measures: four cases involving Brazil / Sílvia Helena Galvão de Miranda
• Meeting standards in EU agriculture: the changing policy context / Vicki Swales
• The pollution haven hypothesis and the location of livestock production: two North American case studies / Alfons Weersink
• Cost effectiveness of sediment abatement policies in potato production: assessing policies in Canada, the Netherlands and the US / John Baptist D. Jatoe, Alfons Weersink, B. James Deaton and Emmanuel K. Yiridoe
• Environmental compliance costs in developed country agricultures: implications for trade and competitiveness / Glenn Fox and Floor Brouwer.