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No. 1 | 01 Apr 2005 |
Is the Concept of the Producer Support Estimate in Need of Revision?
OECD’s Producer Support Estimate (PSE) is the only available source of internationally comparable information on support levels in agriculture. It attracts much attention and receives wide media coverage, not the least in reports that are critical of... |
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No. 3 | 01 Nov 2005 |
Analysis of Price Transmission Along the Food Chain
The interest in marketing margins and price transmission has recently gained remarkable momentum and the amount of studies on this subject is rapidly growing. There is a myriad of questions about prices and margins investigated by these studies, yet... |
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No. 2 | 01 Nov 2005 |
Estimating the Pass-Through of Agricultural Policy Reforms
The ultimate impact of multilateral and own-country agricultural policy reforms will depend on the extent to which those reforms “pass-through” across national borders, within countries, and from local markets down to the household level. At the... |
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No. 4 | 01 Aug 2007 |
Adjustment Options and Strategies in the Context of Agricultural Policy Reform and Trade Liberalisation
Reforming agricultural policies by reducing distorting support improves economic efficiency as a whole through a better allocation of resources. This implies that adjustment may have adverse effects on some agricultural households and other people... |
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No. 5 | 01 Aug 2007 |
The Role of Compensation in Policy Reform
Governments reform policies in order to improve their efficiency and respond to changing social priorities. Reform is resisted when concerns exist about those who may lose out in the process, or when other policy goals are negatively impacted.... |
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No. 6 | 01 Oct 2007 |
Information Deficiencies in Agricultural Policy Design, Implementation and Monitoring
Accurate and complete information is needed to guide the formation, implementation, monitoring and assessment of agricultural policy. Obtaining both qualitative and quantitative information is vital for ensuring that policy measures are targeted,... |
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No. 8 | 01 Mar 2008 |
Major Challenges for Fishery Policy Reform
A political economy perspective of fisheries governance is presented in this paper. In most countries, formal and informal linkages exist among four components of the governance system. The legislature passes laws that authorise the implementation of... |
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No. 7 | 01 Mar 2008 |
Agricultural Policy Design and Implementation
Are current agricultural policies based on measurable objectives? Is the current policy set adequately addressing stated objectives? What could an improved agricultural policy set look like, and how to get onto a reform trajectory? These are some of... |
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No. 9 | 01 Jun 2008 |
Agricultural Progress in Cameroon, Ghana and Mali
This booklet synthesizes findings from analysis of agricultural policy and performance in three African countries: Cameroon, Ghana and Mali. Case studies of each of these countries were undertaken as part of the Support for African Agriculture... |
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No. 12 | 01 Dec 2008 |
Smallholder Adjustment in Middle-Income Countries
This paper discusses the adjustment pressures faced by smallholders in middle-income countries, considers the types of policy response that are warranted, and proposes an integrated framework for more inclusive development. Central to this framework... |
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No. 11 | 01 Dec 2008 |
Modelling Agricultural Trade and Policy Impacts in Less Developed Countries
This paper proposes a methodological framework for examining the distributional effects of alternative agricultural policies in less developed economies. The framework combines disaggregated household models with an explicit modelling of the linkages... |
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No. 10 | 01 Dec 2008 |
Global Change in African Fish Trade: Engine of Development or Threat to Local Food Security?
Today fish is the most traded food commodity in the World. This situation is not without generating potential issues. On the one hand, fish trade is said to support economic growth processes in developing countries by providing an important source of... |
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No. 14 | 01 Jan 2009 |
Policy Initiatives Concerning Diet, Health and Nutrition
The main findings of the paper are based on the OECD survey of policy initiatives in diet, health and nutrition and a review of the relevant literature. Overall survey responses indicate that most efforts focus on two main types of activities: first,... |
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No. 13 | 01 Jan 2009 |
New Avenues of Value Creation in the Agro-Food Sector
This paper suggests some avenues to explore as new sources of value creation and capture in the agro-food sector. The range of opportunities for value creation is vast, and this paper does not pretend to be exhaustive. New strategies are being... |
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No. 15 | 01 Feb 2009 |
Interaction of Public and Private Standards in the Food Chain
This paper discusses a number of issues arising from the contiguous development of public and private quality standards, predominately in developed countries. The paper is an exploratory examination of the ways in which public and private food... |
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No. 16 | 01 Mar 2009 |
Role, Usage and Motivation for Contracting in Agriculture
Agri-food sectors have been going through a remarkable transformation worldwide. This process has been accompanied by an increasing use of contracts, which raises concerns about market transparency, possible consequences for actors of the food supply... |
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No. 17 | 01 Apr 2009 |
Extensive Margins in Agriculture
This paper examines whether the growth in agricultural trade of 69 countries between 1996 and 2006 has taken place at the intensive or the extensive margin. The paper addresses the questions: have agricultural exports during this period expanded more... |
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No. 19 | 01 Jul 2009 |
Impact of Animal Disease Outbreaks and Alternative Control Practices on Agricultural Markets and Trade
Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) is one of the most contagious animal diseases. Because of the easy transfer between animals, FMD is of importance to the domestic market, but also to international agricultural trade. Infected countries are often... |
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No. 18 | 01 Jul 2009 |
Development Dimensions of High Food Prices
Measures were taken by many developing country governments to mitigate consequences of high international agricultural commodity prices from mid 2006 until mid 2008, and to block their transmission to domestic markets, with varying degrees of success... |
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No. 20 | 01 Aug 2009 |
The Trade and Trade Policy Implications of Different Policy Responses to Societal Concerns
Societal concerns as they pertain to farming activities play an important role today in the development of national policies. How such concerns are perceived varies from one society to another as do the policy responses (economic instruments and... |
OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers
NB. No. 1 to No. 58 were released under the previous series title OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Working Papers.
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Is the Concept of the Producer Support Estimate in Need of Revision?
Stefan Tangermann
01 Apr 2005
OECD’s Producer Support Estimate (PSE) is the only available source of internationally comparable information on support levels in agriculture. It attracts much attention and receives wide media coverage, not the least in reports that are critical of...
Analysis of Price Transmission Along the Food Chain
Pavel Vavra and Barry K. Goodwin
01 Nov 2005
The interest in marketing margins and price transmission has recently gained remarkable momentum and the amount of studies on this subject is rapidly growing. There is a myriad of questions about prices and margins investigated by these studies, yet...
Estimating the Pass-Through of Agricultural Policy Reforms
Jonathan Brooks and Olga Melyukhina
01 Nov 2005
The ultimate impact of multilateral and own-country agricultural policy reforms will depend on the extent to which those reforms “pass-through” across national borders, within countries, and from local markets down to the household level. At the...
Adjustment Options and Strategies in the Context of Agricultural Policy Reform and Trade Liberalisation
Osamu Kubota
01 Aug 2007
Reforming agricultural policies by reducing distorting support improves economic efficiency as a whole through a better allocation of resources. This implies that adjustment may have adverse effects on some agricultural households and other people...
The Role of Compensation in Policy Reform
Roger Martini
01 Aug 2007
Governments reform policies in order to improve their efficiency and respond to changing social priorities. Reform is resisted when concerns exist about those who may lose out in the process, or when other policy goals are negatively impacted....
Information Deficiencies in Agricultural Policy Design, Implementation and Monitoring
David Blandford
01 Oct 2007
Accurate and complete information is needed to guide the formation, implementation, monitoring and assessment of agricultural policy. Obtaining both qualitative and quantitative information is vital for ensuring that policy measures are targeted,...
Major Challenges for Fishery Policy Reform
Jon G. Sutinen
01 Mar 2008
A political economy perspective of fisheries governance is presented in this paper. In most countries, formal and informal linkages exist among four components of the governance system. The legislature passes laws that authorise the implementation of...
Agricultural Policy Design and Implementation
Frank van Tongeren
01 Mar 2008
Are current agricultural policies based on measurable objectives? Is the current policy set adequately addressing stated objectives? What could an improved agricultural policy set look like, and how to get onto a reform trajectory? These are some of...
Agricultural Progress in Cameroon, Ghana and Mali
Joe Dewbre and Adeline Borot de Battisti
01 Jun 2008
This booklet synthesizes findings from analysis of agricultural policy and performance in three African countries: Cameroon, Ghana and Mali. Case studies of each of these countries were undertaken as part of the Support for African Agriculture...
Smallholder Adjustment in Middle-Income Countries
Dalila Cervantes-Godoy and Jonathan Brooks
01 Dec 2008
This paper discusses the adjustment pressures faced by smallholders in middle-income countries, considers the types of policy response that are warranted, and proposes an integrated framework for more inclusive development. Central to this framework...
Modelling Agricultural Trade and Policy Impacts in Less Developed Countries
Jonathan Brooks, George Dyer and Ed Taylor
01 Dec 2008
This paper proposes a methodological framework for examining the distributional effects of alternative agricultural policies in less developed economies. The framework combines disaggregated household models with an explicit modelling of the linkages...
Global Change in African Fish Trade: Engine of Development or Threat to Local Food Security?
Christophe Béné
01 Dec 2008
Today fish is the most traded food commodity in the World. This situation is not without generating potential issues. On the one hand, fish trade is said to support economic growth processes in developing countries by providing an important source of...
Policy Initiatives Concerning Diet, Health and Nutrition
Linda Fulponi
01 Jan 2009
The main findings of the paper are based on the OECD survey of policy initiatives in diet, health and nutrition and a review of the relevant literature. Overall survey responses indicate that most efforts focus on two main types of activities: first,...
New Avenues of Value Creation in the Agro-Food Sector
Céline Giner
01 Jan 2009
This paper suggests some avenues to explore as new sources of value creation and capture in the agro-food sector. The range of opportunities for value creation is vast, and this paper does not pretend to be exhaustive. New strategies are being...
Interaction of Public and Private Standards in the Food Chain
Garry Smith
01 Feb 2009
This paper discusses a number of issues arising from the contiguous development of public and private quality standards, predominately in developed countries. The paper is an exploratory examination of the ways in which public and private food...
Role, Usage and Motivation for Contracting in Agriculture
Pavel Vavra
01 Mar 2009
Agri-food sectors have been going through a remarkable transformation worldwide. This process has been accompanied by an increasing use of contracts, which raises concerns about market transparency, possible consequences for actors of the food supply...
Extensive Margins in Agriculture
Peter S. Liapis
01 Apr 2009
This paper examines whether the growth in agricultural trade of 69 countries between 1996 and 2006 has taken place at the intensive or the extensive margin. The paper addresses the questions: have agricultural exports during this period expanded more...
Impact of Animal Disease Outbreaks and Alternative Control Practices on Agricultural Markets and Trade
Franziska Junker, Joanna Ilicic-Komorowska and Frank van Tongeren
01 Jul 2009
Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) is one of the most contagious animal diseases. Because of the easy transfer between animals, FMD is of importance to the domestic market, but also to international agricultural trade. Infected countries are often...
Development Dimensions of High Food Prices
Philip Abbott
01 Jul 2009
Measures were taken by many developing country governments to mitigate consequences of high international agricultural commodity prices from mid 2006 until mid 2008, and to block their transmission to domestic markets, with varying degrees of success...
The Trade and Trade Policy Implications of Different Policy Responses to Societal Concerns
Monika Tothova
01 Aug 2009
Societal concerns as they pertain to farming activities play an important role today in the development of national policies. How such concerns are perceived varies from one society to another as do the policy responses (economic instruments and...