Agricultural Policies in OECD Countries 2005 Monitoring and Evaluation
Agricultural Policies in OECD Countries 2005 Monitoring and Evaluation

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2005-06-21

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9264009566

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A unique source of up-to-date estimates of support to agriculture. Separate chapters describe and evaluate agricultural policy developments in each OECD member, including important developments such as the single payment scheme in EU countries.

Improving Implementation
Improving Implementation

Author: John Wanna

Publisher: ANU E Press

Published: 2007-02-01

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1921313021

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The business of government is necessarily diverse, changing and of considerable scale. A focus on improving the implementation of government programs and initiatives is important because the community expects the Government to deliver on its policies, as does the Government. The papers included in this collection address numerous aspects of improving implementation. They were initially presented at the Project Management and Organisational Change conference held in Canberra in February 2006, the first annual research conference organised by ANZSOG in conjunction with the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. This collection represents a comprehensive drawing together of experience and insight from both practitioners and academic researchers, with speakers including top public sector executives from the Australian jurisdictions as well as representatives from the United Kingdom, Canada and New Zealand.

Tracking Rural Change
Tracking Rural Change

Author: Francesca Merlan

Publisher: ANU E Press

Published: 2009-04-01

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1921536535

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A key, intensifying change affecting rural areas in the last few decades has been a decline in the proportion of national populations whose principal livelihood is farming. The corresponding re-distribution of population has typically resulted in a net population loss to rural areas, and diversification of rural activity. The corporatization and technological modification of food production has prompted new policy challenges, and has bound rural and urban populations together in new relationships articulated in moral discourses of custodianship, food safety, and sustainability. Contributors to this volume came together in the attempt to stimulate collective insight into trends of rural change in Australia, New Zealand and Europe. The first two countries have been characterised by avowedly `neoliberal' rural policy - with considerable departures from it in practice; Europe, on the other hand, by a mix of policy measures which attempt to integrate land management and sustainability, diversification and maintenance of a competitive farming sector within an overarching policy framework more overtly, though only partially, oriented towards sustaining rural society. Aiming to build on research relating to the character of rural transitions, this volume offers substantive and critical contributions to the understanding of the sources of unpredictability, instability, and continuity, that underpin rural transition. The papers explore changes and continuities in policy, the governance of rural spaces, technological developments relating to rural areas and populations, and social forms of subjectivation and participation in increasingly diverse rural settings.

The Commonwealth's Administration of the Dairy Industry Adjustment Package
The Commonwealth's Administration of the Dairy Industry Adjustment Package

Author: Australian National Audit Office

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9780642807663

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The Australian dairy industry was deregulated on 1 July 2000. The Commonwealth established the Dairy Industry Adjustment Package to assist dairy farmers to make the transition to a deregulated environment. The package consists of the Dairy Structural Adjustment Program (DSAP) and the Supplementary Dairy Assistance Program (SDA), and this audit assessed the Commonwealth's administration of those programs.

Rural and Regional Futures
Rural and Regional Futures

Author: Anthony Hogan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-09-19

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1317687132

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Agriculture, mining and related rural industries have been central to the development of Australia’s economy. This book details the role that the Australian Government has played in the making of rural and regional Australia, particularly since World War II. The book reviews these policies and evaluates them with regards the commitments undertaken by the Government to contribute towards vibrant, rural communities. Policy areas addressed include agriculture, water, education, welfare and population, natural resource management, resource extraction, Indigenous and affairs, localism, rural research and regional innovation, Youth Affairs and the devolution of regional governance. Overall two distinct policy strategies can be observed: one wherein the government saw its role as part of the entrepreneurial state and a sector wherein government has increasingly taken itself out of industry development, leaving this role to the market. Having considered these strategies and their impacts, the book concludes that policy over the past 40 years has not in fact contributed to a more vibrant, prosperous rural and regional Australia. Rural and Regional Futures concludes with several chapters looking to the future. One chapter explores what the role of the state can be within a social market economy while the final chapter gives consideration to the initial steps rural communities will need to take to begin the process of revitalisation. While these materials present as a case study of developments in Australia, the policy shift from the Government as entrepreneur to a focus on markets is an international one and as such, the insights offered by this book will have wide appeal.