Download or read book Assessing the Environmental Impact of Farm Policies written by Walter Nebeker Thurman and published by American Enterprise Institute. This book was released on 1995 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the environmental impact of farm policies on farm programmes and environmental goals, along with the environmental consequences of alternatives to the current farm programmes.
Download or read book Evaluating the Environmental Impact of Agricultural Policies written by Ben Henderson and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: The relationship between agricultural support policies (adapted from the OECD Producer Support Estimate (PSE) classification) and a selection of environmental impacts are analysed in a range of country settings, using a farm-level and a market-level model. Based on the methods and environmental indicators used, market price support and payments based on unconstrained variable input use were the most environmentally harmful among the various PSE measures. Decoupled support payments based on non-current crop area were the least harmful, even when considering their impacts on the behaviour of risk averse farmers. The impacts of support policies that clearly change the competitiveness of one production activity in relation to another, such as payments based on current crop area or on animal numbers, were more equivocal. Support payments subject to environmental constraints can improve environmental outcomes compared to coupled support without restrictions, however, they can also have unintended environmental impacts
Download or read book Linkages between Agricultural Policies and Environmental Effects Using the OECD Stylised Agri environmental Policy Impact Model written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The OECD Stylised Agri-environmental Policy Impact Model (SAPIM), enables better understanding of the impact of agri-environmental policies. This report applies the model to representative farms in Finland, Japan, Switzerland and the United States.
Download or read book Evaluation of Agri environmental Policies Selected Methodological Issues and Case Studies written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The report includes a selection papers presented at the OECD Workshop on Evaluation of Agri-environmental Policies, held 20-22 June 2011.
Download or read book Evaluating Agri environmental Policies Design Practice and Results written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2005-09-22 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This workshop proceedings examines evaluation of agri-environmental policies to see how effective policies have been and what policy makers have learned.
Download or read book A Framework for Assessing Effects of the Food System written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How we produce and consume food has a bigger impact on Americans' well-being than any other human activity. The food industry is the largest sector of our economy; food touches everything from our health to the environment, climate change, economic inequality, and the federal budget. From the earliest developments of agriculture, a major goal has been to attain sufficient foods that provide the energy and the nutrients needed for a healthy, active life. Over time, food production, processing, marketing, and consumption have evolved and become highly complex. The challenges of improving the food system in the 21st century will require systemic approaches that take full account of social, economic, ecological, and evolutionary factors. Policy or business interventions involving a segment of the food system often have consequences beyond the original issue the intervention was meant to address. A Framework for Assessing Effects of the Food System develops an analytical framework for assessing effects associated with the ways in which food is grown, processed, distributed, marketed, retailed, and consumed in the United States. The framework will allow users to recognize effects across the full food system, consider all domains and dimensions of effects, account for systems dynamics and complexities, and choose appropriate methods for analysis. This report provides example applications of the framework based on complex questions that are currently under debate: consumption of a healthy and safe diet, food security, animal welfare, and preserving the environment and its resources. A Framework for Assessing Effects of the Food System describes the U.S. food system and provides a brief history of its evolution into the current system. This report identifies some of the real and potential implications of the current system in terms of its health, environmental, and socioeconomic effects along with a sense for the complexities of the system, potential metrics, and some of the data needs that are required to assess the effects. The overview of the food system and the framework described in this report will be an essential resource for decision makers, researchers, and others to examine the possible impacts of alternative policies or agricultural or food processing practices.
Download or read book Linkages between Agricultural Policies and Environmental Effects Using the OECD Stylised Agri environmental Policy Impact Model written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The OECD Stylised Agri-environmental Policy Impact Model (SAPIM), enables better understanding of the impact of agri-environmental policies. This report applies the model to representative farms in Finland, Japan, Switzerland and the United States.
Download or read book Sustainable Agriculture Policies for Human Well Being written by Bazyli Czyżewski and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the important topic of policies for sustainable agriculture, since food insecurity is a growing concern for policy makers and will affect the quality of life and well-being of generations to come. The authors provide a theoretical background to the concept of sustainable agriculture including its recent developments; monitor the current state of sustainability in agriculture in different regions of the world; and evaluate current agricultural policies to propose new solutions. They show practical ways of sustainability measurement that could be applied to different regions. The book takes into account sustainability indicators based on economic, social and environmental aspects and discusses the trade-offs between these three dimensions. It also answers the question of whether current agricultural policies contribute to balancing between the goals of agriculture---that of not just providing food but of contributing to the greater good---and how policies differ and have evolved across the world. Finally, it puts together the best practices of sustainability for the use of policymakers. The book pays particular attention to least developed countries where hunger and malnutrition are high, but where productivity should not come at the expense of environmental and social goals. This book is of use to a wide readership of policy makers, professionals and academics in the social and environmental sciences interested in the improvement of human life through sustainable agricultural policy implementation.
Download or read book Conservation and Environmental Issues in Agriculture written by David E. Ervin and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Improving the Environmental Performance of Agriculture Policy options and market approaches written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2001-08-27 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how agricultural policy can be designed to not only serve agricultural and economic objectives, but also environmental ones.
Download or read book Evaluation of Agricultural Policy Reforms in the United States written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02-14 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study analyses and evaluates US agricultural policies, focusing on the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008, in the context of developments in agricultural policy that have taken place in the United States since 1985.
Download or read book The Environmental Effects of Reforming Agricultural Policies written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 1998-02-24 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through examining concrete policy experiences from OECD countries, this study concludes that agricultural policy reforms can improve the environment, provided they are accompanied by appropriate environmental measures.
Download or read book Environmental and Agricultural Modelling written by Floor M. Brouwer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-04-05 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agriculture increasingly faces the challenge of balancing its multiple functions in a sustainable way. Integrated assessment and modelling (IAM) can provide insight into the potential impacts of policy changes. However, concepts to address the wide range of issues and functions typical for agriculture are still scarce. Environmental and Agricultural Modelling reviews and presents our current understanding of integrated and working tools to assess and compute, ex-ante, alternative agricultural and environmental policy options, allowing: 1. Analysis at the full range of scales (farm to European Union and global) whilst focusing on the most important issues emerging at each scale; 2. Analysis of the environmental, economic and social contributions of agricultural systems towards sustainable rural development and rural viability; 3. Analysis of a broad range of issues and agents of change, such as climate change, environmental policies, rural development options, effects of an enlarging EU, international competition, and effects on developing countries.
Download or read book Environmental Indicators for Agriculture Vol 1 Concepts and Framework Vol 2 Issues and Design The York Workshop written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 1999-10-06 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines two key aspects of developing environmental indicators for agriculture: identification and design of suitable indicators and how governments might use them for policy purposes.
Download or read book Agricultural Policy Analysis written by Jeevika Weerahewa and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-09 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is centred around various interwoven topics which are fundamental to policy analysis in agriculture. Key concepts and tools that are fundamental for the analysis of agricultural policies and programmes are presented. Key concepts introduced include, the role of the state in a market economy with examples from the Sri Lankan and other developing economies, the international trade environment, and conceptual frameworks for analysing important domestic and international trade policies. It also highlights interconnections among agriculture, development, policy and illustrates the extent to which the agricultural sector contributes in achieving economic growth objectives, equity and equality objectives and environmental objectives. The book takes the readers through the nature of agricultural markets in developing countries, with special emphasis on Sri Lanka, and illustrates how the degree of competitiveness is measured at various market levels using multiple indices and methods. Several tools, with accompanying case studies, for the analysis of policies and programmes are detailed. These tools include the GTAP model, gravity models, extended benefit cost analysis, and linear programming. Tools and models are applied to the analysis of trade policies and agreements, marketing policies, environmental services, extension programmes, land tenure reforms and climate change adaptations. Case studies in relation to the agri-food policy and strategy response to COVID-19 Pandemic are also covered. This book is of interest to public officials working in agricultural planning and agricultural policy, teachers, researchers, agro-economists, capacity builders and policymakers. Also the book serves as additional reading material for undergraduate and graduate students of agriculture, development studies, and environmental sciences. National and international agricultural scientists, policy makers will also find this to be a useful read.
Download or read book Environmental Policies written by John Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book OECD Review of Agricultural Policies Switzerland 2015 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-27 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report examines agricultural policies in Switzerland and makes a series of recommendations concerning regulation, reducing trade barriers, reducing direct payments to farmers, implementing regional policies and addressing sustainability.
