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Rural change: the challenge for agricultural economists
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ISBN: 0566004011 9780566004018 Year: 1981 Publisher: Aldershot Gower

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Income Risk Management in Agriculture
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ISBN: 1280081341 9786610081349 9264189580 9264185348 Year: 2000 Publisher: Paris : OECD Publishing,

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Various risks affect the income and the welfare of farm households. A large number of strategies are available to deal specifically with income risk. They exist against a general background of widespread government intervention that modifies the risks faced by farmers. In the context of agricultural policy reform, a challenge for policy makers is to better define the role of public policy versus market-based mechanisms to deal with income risk in agriculture. The OECD workshop examined the various strategies used by farm households, in particular those attracting renewed interest such as diversification of income sources, vertical co-ordination, hedging on futures markets, insurance coverage and public safety-nets. It allowed participants from Member countries’ governments and private industries to share their experience. One of the main conclusions was that farmers, as managers, have the primary responsibility for risk management and that the optimal mix of tools and instruments depends on specific conditions. Government intervention in risk management, coming as a response to an identified market failure, should be in line with general reform principles shared by OECD Ministers for Agriculture, which include increasing the market orientation of agriculture and addressing legitimate domestic interests in ways that do not distort production and trade.


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The rural challenge : Contributed papers read at the 17th international conference of agricultural economics
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ISBN: 0566004720 9780566004728 Year: 1979 Volume: 2

Beyond agriculture and economics : management, investment, policy, and methodology.
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ISBN: 0870134698 9780870134692 Year: 1997 Publisher: East Lansing Philosophy of science association

Agricultural markets : mechanisms, failures, and regulations
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ISBN: 0444824812 1849508542 9780444824813 Year: 1996 Volume: 234 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] Elsevier Science

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This volume aims at covering the variety of issues lying at the intersection of the modern theory of Industrial Organization and of the more traditional Agricultural Economics. The book is divided into three main sections. Each of them includes contributions which are particularly relevant for a better understanding of one or several of the following key issues: the organization of agriculture and its mechanisms, the extent of the market power in agri-food industries and, more generally, the failures of agricultural markets, and finally the nature of government's intervention in these markets.


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The role of agriculture in economic development: : a conference of the universities-national bureau committee for economic research
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ISBN: 0870142038 9780870142031 Year: 1969 Volume: 21 Publisher: New York: National bureau of economic research,

Multifunctionality in Agriculture : Evaluating the degree of jointness, policy implications
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ISBN: 1281719250 9786611719258 9264033629 9264033610 9789264033610 Year: 2008 Publisher: Paris : OECD Publishing,

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These proceedings examine the nature and strength of jointness between agricultural commodity production and non-commodity outputs from the perspective of three areas important to the agricultural sector: rural development, environmental externalities and food security. This workshop also examined whether the relationships among these non-commodity outputs were complementary or competing. Finally, the policy implications that could be derived from the findings of this workshop were also a key element in the discussions and are summarised in the Rapporteur’s summary.

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