Agricultural Policies in OECD Countries 1999 Monitoring and Evaluation
Agricultural Policies in OECD Countries 1999 Monitoring and Evaluation

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 1999-05-26

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 926417303X

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This annual publication provides the most comprehensive monitoring and evaluation of agricultural policies available for OECD countries. It examines the changing level and composition of support to agriculture, evaluating agricultural policy developments against a set of OECD principles for reform.

Water and Agriculture Sustainability, Markets and Policies
Water and Agriculture Sustainability, Markets and Policies

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2006-10-23

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9264022570

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Explores how both governments and the private sector can expand the role of markets to allocate water used by all sectors and to get agricultural producers to account for the pollution that their sector generates.

Nature and Agriculture in the European Union
Nature and Agriculture in the European Union

Author: Floor Brouwer

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9781781009802

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Nature and agriculture both shape the European countryside and one of the main challenges for the years to come will be to strengthen their interaction for the future development of rural areas. In this valuable and highly topical book, the authors demonstrate how economics and ecology can play a critical role in maintaining and sustaining this relationship. The book identifies the dilemmas facing European agriculture and explores their economic and ecological consequences. The authors believe a better understanding of these problems will be crucial in recognising the potential options for the future role of agriculture and nature policy and will guide the identification of suitable policy instruments. They highlight current threats to the relationship between agriculture and nature - such as abandonment and intensification - and demonstrate how these problems can be resolved by a rational policy mix. The book also provides extensive empirical evidence from four case studies and concludes by scrutinising the major changes in market conditions and the Common Agricultural Policy which could upset this important but fragile balance between agriculture and nature.

Irrigation Water Pricing
Irrigation Water Pricing

Author: François Molle

Publisher: CABI

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 1845932927

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Much hope has been vested in pricing as a means of helping to regulate and rationalize water management, notably in the irrigation sector. The pricing of water has often been applied universally, using general and ideological policies, and not considering regional environmental and economic differences. Almost 15 years after the emphasis laid at the Dublin and Rio conferences on treating water as an economic good, a comprehensive review of how such policies have helped manage water resources an irrigation use is necessary. The case-studies presented here offer a reassessment of current policies by evaluating their objectives and constraints and often demonstrating their failure by not considering the regional context. They will therefore contribute to avoiding costly and misplaced reforms and help design water policies that are based on a deeper understanding of the factors which eventually dictate their effectiveness.