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This research evaluates whether the introduction of countercyclical payments creates an incentive for program crop producers to hedge the expected government payment using futures and/or options. Results indicate that some level of countercyclical payment hedging is optimal for risk-averse...
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The relationship between multifunctionality and the roles of rural communities has not been discussed fully although the connection between the two is an essential issue in the rural policy arena. Pursuing this issue, this paper considers that multifunctional hamlet activities are generated as...
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The aim of the article is a discussion of the need and the possibilities of evaluating and measuring the effectiveness of agricultural policy with a special attention given to the CAP. The issue of the value added by agricultural expenditure generated by the CAP is raised. The evolution of the...
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This article evaluates the effectiveness of ex-post targeting of the direct payment program for mountain agriculture in Japan. A regression analysis explaining the entry into the program shows that the farm profitability and the production cost were significant positive and negative factor,...
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Since 2000, ‘The System of Direct Payment of Subsidies to Farmers in Hilly and Mountainous Areas’ is in operation in Japan. The objective of this paper is to evaluate and survey Japan’s policy for less favoured areas. This system has two characteristics: ‘coverage subsidies for...
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agriculture assistance that could be withheld from farmers who fail to comply with highly erodible land conservation (conservation … compliance and sodbuster) or wetland conservation (swampbuster) provisions, known collectively as environmental compliance … subject to compliance through existing Federal agricultural programs(e.g., conservation or disaster programs) or programs that …
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This report described investment and loan plans for the agricultural sector following the changing circumstances of Korea’s agricultural policies, the direct payment programs, the agricultural crop insurance and the management risk control schemes, which are considered to be key support...
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This paper analyses the impacts of the 2003 CAP reform on the production of Italian olive oil controlling for the regional differences in olive oil production as well as for the differences between years. Italian olive oil production time series data from the Farm Accountancy Data Network for...
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Estimation of the effects of greening the EU Common Agricultural Policy in Poland in the perspective of 2014 on the example of FADN farms. Taking into account the environmental functions in the draft of Common Agricultural Policy for 2014-2020. Proposals for the system of direct payments after...
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Global challenges and the future of the CAP. The CAP from a global agriculture perspective. The CAP after 2013: an assessment of the Commission’s proposals for changing Pillar I. Price Volatility and Price Risk in the Agro-food Markets and the Future Development of the Common Agricultural...
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