Agricultural Policy Formation Research Articles

Political economy analysis of the dissemination and use of seasonal weather forecasts and services in Zimbabwe

Weather and climate services are essential tools that help farmers make informed choices, such as choosing appropriate crop varieties. These services depend considerably on the availability of adequate investments in infrastructure related to weather forecasting, which are often provided by the State in most countries. Zimbabwean farmers generally have limited access to modern weather and climate services. While extensive attempts have been made to investigate farmers’ socioeconomic factors that influence access to and use of weather and climate services, comparative political economy analysis of weather and climate service production and use is limited. To address this knowledge gap, this study examines the production, dissemination, and usage of modern seasonal weather services through a political economy analysis perspective. The findings of this study highlight considerable discrepancies in access and use of seasonal weather forecasts between male and female farmers, those who practise African Traditional Religions versus Christians, and the minority group (Ndau tribe) and the majority group (Manyika tribe). This result suggested the presence of social marginalization. For example, minority Ndau members living in remote areas with limited radio signals and a weak mobile network have limited access to modern seasonal weather forecasts, forcing them to rely much more on indigenous weather forecasts. Further, due to unequal power relations, a greater proportion of male farmers participated in agricultural policy formation processes than their female counterparts. To promote inclusive development and implementation, deliberate efforts need to be made by State authorities to incorporate adherents of African traditional religions, members of minority tribes and female farmers in agricultural policymaking processes, including seasonal weather forecast delivery policies. Further, the study suggests the relaxation or elimination of international sanctions on Zimbabwe by the European Union, United Kingdom and the United States of America, given that they are considerably affecting marginalized groups of farmers in their climate change adaptation practices, including the use of modern weather and climate services. The vast majority of these marginalized farmers never benefitted from the land reform programme and were also not responsible for the design and implementation of this programme which triggered these sanctions.

Integrasi Pasar Cabai Rawit Di Kabupaten Kutai Kartanegara

One of the main measures of marketing efficiency is market integration, which contributes to the formation of agricultural policy. Thus, it is important to understand how much changes in consumer prices can impact farmers in order to increase the effectiveness of policies and price control measures. The purpose of this research is to look at the integration of cayenne pepper prices in the Mangkurawang and Loa Kulu markets using the correlation coefficient R. Data from ten traders in each market were collected for 30 days. The results showed that although there was a positive relationship between the price of cayenne pepper in the Mangkurawang and Loa Kulu markets, the correlation coefficient was moderate, namely 0.49. In addition, price margins in the Mangkurawang and Loa Kulu markets tended to be stable during the study. This shows that changes in the price of cayenne pepper were relatively stable over that time period. Although there is a correlation between the price of cayenne pepper in the two markets, the correlation is not strong. The price of cayenne pepper in both markets is still integrated, although not fully, because the price relationship is not strong; however, differences in competition in the Mangkurawang and Loa Kulu markets can affect the level of price parity, while differences in transportation costs can affect price margins.

Food and Water Security in the Context of Sustainable Development

A review of food and water security in the context of sustainable development is the purpose of this study. Food and water security are complicated sustainable development challenges that are linked to both health and sustainable economic development through malnutrition. These are contained in the sustainable development SDGs such as 2 and 6 (Zero Hunger) (Sanitation and clean water). This paper is a review of food and water security that has to do with the conceptual issues, stylized facts on food and water security, food and water security nexus, factors militating against food security around the world, related empirical studies and way forward, Having pointed out some of the factors militating against food and water security such global warming/ climate change, disease outbreak and insecurity etc. strong conclusion and recommendation were made such as fight against insecurity and diseases outbreak, good sanitation and hygiene should also be promoted and sustained, good agricultural policy formation and implementation amongst other things will play out to promote food and water security, hence, to achieve sustainable economic development.

Теоретико-методологічне забезпечення економічного розвитку аграрного сектору та сільських територій

The purpose of the article is generalization of the research results of scientists of the National Research Center "Institute of Agrarian Economy" to improve the theoretical foundations of economic development of the agricultural sector and rural areas, as well as the development of economic foundations for the formation of agricultural policy in Ukraine. Research methods. In the process of research, depending on the goals and objectives, a number of general scientific and special methods were used, in particular: theoretical generalization - to substantiate the theoretical and methodological provisions of the economic development of the agricultural sector and rural areas; a complex of general logical methods - as the main methodological toolkit for scientific research; monographic - when defining the essence and implementing a methodological assessment of organizational and economic conditions and the logic of development trends in certain areas of the agricultural sector and rural areas; analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, comparison - in the study and generalization of modern experience and identification of promising priorities for improving the theoretical and methodological support for the economic development of the agricultural sector and rural areas in Ukraine. Research results. A scientifically substantiated analysis of the research results of the National Research Center "Institute of Agrarian Economics" for 2016-2020 with the systematization of developments that form the methodological basis for the implementation of a promising nationally identical model of economic development of the agricultural sector and rural areas, taking into account the priorities of achieving competitiveness and sustainability. Scientific novelty. Fundamentally new foundations and scientific and methodological approaches in priority areas and substantiation of mechanisms for ensuring effective economic development of the agricultural sector of the economy and rural areas in the context of expanding self-government, decentralization of public administration and development of entrepreneurship have been developed. In particular, the theoretical and methodological foundations of substantiating an innovative model for the development of rural areas and the agricultural sector of the economy have been improved; new approaches to increasing the competitive advantages of domestic agri-food products on world markets in the context of global challenges and international integration of Ukraine, proposed a Ukrainian model of agricultural land turnover, a conceptual vision of the development of family farms. Practical significance. The research results are aimed at creating favorable institutional conditions for conducting economic and entrepreneurial activities in rural areas (regulatory and competitive policy of food security, liberalization of access to product markets and production factors) and ensuring the development of the social component of the formation of state policy in the development of rural areas; strengthening of various forms of integration relations of economic entities in rural areas and their adaptation to the requirements of European agrarian and business law; improving property relations, optimizing property relations and increasing the competitiveness of entrepreneurial structures; ensuring the formation of a system of market turnover of agricultural land and its infrastructure; strengthening the income base of the budgets of rural communities. The developed recommendations will help to build up export potential and increase budget revenues, increase the level of consumption of the population, form an economic mechanism for greening agricultural lands; elimination of problem institutions that restrain the increase in the competitiveness of the agrarian sector of the economy and the development of agrarian entrepreneurship; introduction of a scientifically grounded model of fiscal regulation of the development of the agrarian sector of the economy, which will have a positive effect on the well-being of rural residents and provide a resource base for solving social problems. Refs.: 29.

What does the UK public want farmland to look like?

As populations grow and demand for food rises, major shifts in global agri-food policy are likely to significantly impact agricultural land use. As the UK has now separated from the Common Agricultural Policy as it left the EU, Brexit offers a unique opportunity to create UK-specific agricultural policies that may dramatically shape both the countryside’s appearance and the ecosystem services it provides. However, it is important to understand how the public – as taxpayers of agri-environment schemes – want the farmed countryside to look. To fill this knowledge gap, we undertook a novel mixed-methods study using a survey and collage-making workshops to understand aesthetic preferences for perceived “ideal” and “environmentally friendly” farm landscapes. Multinomial regression of data from a nationally representative survey of 2050 respondents demonstrated widespread support for agricultural landscapes containing trees and free-ranging livestock for ideal UK farm landscapes. Aesthetic preferences differed based on several socio-demographic variables, including gender, income and education. Landscapes with renewable energy technology, trees, and no livestock were perceived to be the most “environmentally friendly” farms, though wind turbines were visually unappealing. Eighty participants created collages of their ideal and environmentally friendly farming landscapes and completed a short survey to explain their choices. Qualitative thematic analysis of the collages and explanatory text found a desire for mosaic ideal farm landscapes focused either on agricultural or wild biological diversity. Results for the environmentally friendly farms reflected those in the survey. We discuss how our findings relate to implications for post-Brexit agricultural policy formation, particularly with regards to integrating public preferences around agri-food systems, to ensure tax-payers’ views are considered.

METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF TYPIFICATION OF RUSSIAN REGIONS BASED ON THE ANALYSIS OF THE INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE OF THE ECONOMY OF THE AGRO-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

The article provides a literary review, systematizes approaches to the allocation of types of agricultural structure of Russian regions, and develops a method for allocating types of Russian regions according to the degree of development of agriculture, the food industry, and the branches of the economy that serve agriculture. This method takes into account the ratio of agribusiness industries, which we have grouped into three areas: I sphere (industries that produce products consumed by the II and III spheres of agriculture; 2 types of economic activity), II sphere (agriculture; 6 types of economic activity), III sphere (industries that process agricultural products or provide various services to them; 3 types of economic activity). Taking into account the coefficient of localization of agricultural production, three groups of regions were identified: agro-industrial, industrial and agricultural, as well as regions for which the agro-industrial complex is not a branch of their specialization. On the example of Russian regions, the developed methodology was tested: the structure of regions was dominated by agroindustrial regions (52.4% of the studied population), 20 and 19 regions were assigned to industrial-agricultural and other territories, respectively. The results obtained are important for authorities at all levels in their formation of agricultural policy, the concept of demographic development, and structural changes in the economy.

ФУНКЦІОНУВАННЯ ФЕРМЕРСЬКИХ ГОСПОДАРСТВ В СУЧАСНИХ УМОВАХ ГОСПОДАРЮВАННЯ В УКРАЇНІ

The role of farms is too important today in today’s agricultural sector; therefore it is necessary to pay attention to those problems which today have this sector both in Ukraine and around the world space. In Ukraine, the development of farms is significantly influenced by several factors: the imperfection of the legal framework; weak support by state and regional entities; poor development of distribution networks, processing and storage of agricultural products; lack of organizational and economic activities methodological support of farms. During the quarantine, they suffer from an acute investment crisis. Today during quarantine measures actions, scientific research on these issues is limited but in the specialized publications there are some publications of practitioners on the farm activities in conditions of quarantine, explanation of state bodies. Farms are more affected by quarantine and the economic crisis therefore; the state has developed a strategy for the development of the agricultural sector for 2021–2023 and approved forms of providing financial support for farm development. The main areas for the support and development of private farming are the formation of agricultural policy by the analogy with Economic cooperation and development countries, reduction of investment risks, counteraction agricultural raiding in the seizure of agricultural land, development preferential insurance system, the formation of farmers ability to operate independently by training qualified personnel in the agriculture sector, able to carry out the activities on a family basis, due to technical re-equipment the general farms’ efficiency will increase. Creating conditions for cooperative and integration formations will also allow farmers to increase their activities profitability, enter new markets and increase volume revenues in foreign currency from agricultural products export, and incentives agricultural cooperation will give a new impetus to the development processing of raw materials in Ukraine, not abroad. The creation of voluntary associations of farms will protect farms in competition with monopolies for agricultural products markets.

ОСОБЕННОСТИ РАЗВИТИЯ ХОЗЯЙСТВУЮЩИХ СУБЪЕКТОВ В РОССИЙСКИХ РЕГИОНАХ (НА ПРИМЕРЕ РЕСПУБЛИКИ ТАТАРСТАН И ПЕНЗЕНСКОЙ ОБЛАСТИ)

The modern diversity of the agricultural sector in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation stimulates further optimization of decisions in the field of managing the country’s territories. Regional differentiation is largely related to the priorities of economic entities in the formation of agricultural policy. The hypothesis is formulated in the article and arguments are presented that show that between the All-Russian agricultural censuses of 2006 and 2016 there was a further deepening of differences in the rural industry of the regions of the Russian Federation. This is manifested in the redistribution of production specializations and in the development of the resource potential of economic entities. The authors present the results of All-Russian population censuses of 2006 and 2016 in the Republic of Tatarstan and Penza region. They calculated the relative indicators of agricultural activity of agricultural organizations, peasant farms and private farms in these constituent entities of the Russian Federation. It has been revealed that Tatarstan is characterized by a soft intensification of agriculture and a policy of strengthening all business entities. In Penza region, their reduction and accelerated development of some entities is observed. In it, the surviving business entities have become more economically sound. A comparison of the regions revealed a deepening of their production specializations. They are similar in that the rural entrepreneurship did not become a significant participant in the agricultural sector, although there is an increase in the availability of its equipment.

The Way I Saw It; the Way It Was: The Making of National Agricultural and Natural Resource Management Policy, John C.Kerin Published by APO, Melbourne, VIC, 2017, 713 pages.

The Way I Saw It; the Way It Was: The Making of National Agricultural and Natural Resource Management Policy, John C.Kerin Published by APO, Melbourne, VIC, 2017, 713 pages.

VÝZNAM INTRASTATU V INTRAKOMUNITÁRNÍM OBCHODU EVROPSKÉ UNIE

The paper deals with the importance of Intrastat and Eurostat for mutual trade with goods between EU countries and third countries. It informs about the importance of statistical data for all legal forms of trade companies, multinational companies, public administration institutions and service businesses. It points out that accepting the Czech Republic as a member of EU changed the use of terminology in foreign trade. For goods transactions between EU member states the terms sending and receiving are used, whereas the traditional terminology export – import is used for foreign trade with the third countries.Paper describes legal regulations including the instructions for statistical data records, specifically the Directive of the European parliament and Council No. 638/2004, appended by the Commission directive No. 1980/2004 and Public notice of the Czech statistical office from 18th May, 2005. Based on the retrospective view it shows the development of legal regulation and the importance of quo­ted directive for determining and recording statistical data. It notifies that statistical data are necessary for recognition of the course of integration of the internal market, formation of agricultural policy and adopting anti-dumping measures. Paper acquaints with organisation of statistics within the Euro­pean Union. It also notifies that statistical system includes also the countries of Iceland, Norway, and Liechtenstein.Results of foreign trade in 2007 show the involvement of the Czech Republic in mutual trade with the EU countries, to which 85.22 % of the total value of exported goods was sent, which represents the amount of CZK 194 056 per inhabitant of the Czech Republic. In the same year, goods of the total share of 69.90 % was received from the EU countries, which represents the amount of CZK 162 021 per inhabitant. Our most important trade partner is Germany, with which we have reached the turnover of CZK 1 429 986. According to the goods nomenclature, the highest share was exported in the case of motor vehicles (18.25 %), and machines and equipment (11.90 %).Calculation was done using the method of vertical and horizontal analysis. Authors got to the conclusion, that the use of these methods only is insufficient for evaluation of the mutual trade relations’ dynamics. Total values have to be recalculated to a comparable indicator, which is one inhabitant of a particular country.

The Agricultural Policy Formation Process

The Agricultural Policy Formation Process

Germany and the CAP: A Bargaining Model of EC Agricultural Policy Formation

AbstractA bargaining model of EC agricultural policy formation is formulated. The model allows for more explicit consideration of political factors than is possible in standard political economy models. It shows how the political system in Germany has increased the power of German farm interests relative to farm interests elsewhere in the EC. The paper recognizes CAP negotiations are an on‐going process. Results of the previous bargaining round form the basis for the current round and give momentum to price changes. Understanding this momentum provides insight into the fluctuating price supports that have characterized the CAP.

Intervention bias in agricultural policy

ABSTRACTThis paper re‐examines the motivation for government intervention in agriculture to support farm prices and incomes. A model is outlined in which the government has a preference for higher farm incomes but fails to provide farmers with the socially optimal level of price support, even when one accepts the government's income redistribution goals as a valid reflection of social preference. It is shown that agricultural policy has an intervention bias: government price supports generally are higher than would be socially optimal. The source of the intervention bias is a time inconsistency in optimal agricultural policy formation, caused by the government's inability to precommit to a rule for setting future price support levels. Simulation results indicate that in some circumstances the intervention bias in agricultural policy can be substantial.

Intervention bias in agricultural policy

This paper re-examines the motivation for government intervention in agriculture to support farm prices and incomes. A model is outlined in which the government has a preference for higher farm incomes but fails to provide farmers with the socially optimal level of price support, even when one accepts the government's income redistribution goals as a valid reflection of social preference. It is shown that agricultural policy has an intervention bias: government price supports generally are higher than would be socially optimal. The source of the intervention bias is a time inconsistency in optimal agricultural policy formation, caused by the government's inability to precommit to a rule for setting future price support levels. Simulation results indicate that in some circumstances the intervention bias in agricultural policy can be substantial.

Leveraging the Farm Vote: The New Political Arithmetic of Agricultural Policy Formation:Philip Ehrensaft and Jennifer Beeman

Leveraging the Farm Vote: The New Political Arithmetic of Agricultural Policy Formation:Philip Ehrensaft and Jennifer Beeman

Petit, Michael, Michele de Benedictis, Denis Britton, Martijn de Groot, Wilhelm Henrichsmeyer, and Francesco Lechi. Agricultural Policy Formation in the European Community: The Birth of Milk Quotas and CAP Reform. Hollingham, Michael A., and Richard W. Howarth. British Milk Marketing and the Common Agricultural Policy: The Origins of Confusion and Crisis. Burrell, Alison, ed. Milk Quotas in the European Community

Petit, Michael, Michele de Benedictis, Denis Britton, Martijn de Groot, Wilhelm Henrichsmeyer, and Francesco Lechi. <i>Agricultural Policy Formation in the European Community: The Birth of Milk Quotas and CAP Reform</i>. Hollingham, Michael A., and Richard W. Howarth. <i>British Milk Marketing and the Common Agricultural Policy: The Origins of Confusion and Crisis</i>. Burrell, Alison, ed. <i>Milk Quotas in the European Community</i>

Values and policy conflict in West German agriculture

Family farming became a major social force in the Federal Republic following World War II. Several political, economic and social factors facilitated the development of a unified political representation within the farm sector. The German Farmers Union (Deutscher Bauernverband) became the main representative of the farm sector. Its platform included the preservation of family farms and it attempted to realize this goal through the promotion of commodity price support policies. Political support for these programs was legitimized with the elaboration of a system of values espousing the positive qualities of family farms. Price support policies were opposed by free market advocates with an alternative system of values that fundamentally contradicted those of family farm advocates. Although commodity price supports promoted by partisans of family farming dominated agricultural policy formation in the 1950s and 1960s, fiscal crisis in the EEC and economic differentation within the farm sector began to undermine the position of family farming as a social force. But economic stagnation also prevented the free market position from gaining dominance. Economic differentiation within the farm sector has had an important regional dimension, and this has served as a basis for policy compromise. Economic changes over the post-WWII period have undermined the family farm as a social force. Nevertheless, values associated with family farming continue to have a place in agricultural policy. However, family farming is valued less as an end in itself, and more as a means to the realization of more practical ends such as the preservation of rural landscapes for recreational purposes.

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Preventing Famine: Policies and Prospects for Africa. By D. Curtis, M. Hubbard and A. Shepherd Articulated Agricultural Development: Traditional and Capitalist Agricultures in Papua New Guinea. By M. Donaldson and K. Good. Aldershot The Common Agricultural Policy of the European Community: Its Institutional and Administrative Organisation. (2nd edition). By R. Fennell Disease in Farm Livestock: Economics and Policy. Edited by K. S. Howe and J. P. McInerney Agricultural Price Policy for Developing Countries. Edited by J. Mellor and R. Ahmed Appraisal of Projects in Developing Countries: A Guide for Economists. (3rd edition). Overseas Development Administration Europe's Domestic Market. By J. Pelkmans and A. Winters Reviews of United Kingdom Statistical Sources, Volume XXIII: Agriculture. By G. H. Peters Agricultural Policy Formation in the European Community: The Birth of Milk Quotas and CAP Reform. By M. Petit, M. de Benedictis, D. Britton, M. de Groot, W. Henrichsmeyer and F. Lechi Culture and Context in Sudan: The Process of Market Incorporation in Dar Masalit. By D. Tully. Modelling a Multiple Output Production System: Supply Response in the Australian Sheep Industry. By C. Wall and B. Fisher

Simulation of Agricultural Policy Formation as a Teaching Approach

Policy formation can best be described as problem solving. Policies are formulated so that they appeal to a sufficient number of involved parties to accept the policy as an improvement over the present situation (Bauer). Understanding the environment and operation of this political process helps students formulate critical judgments concerning important economic policy issues. Because this process is so complex, it warrants special attention by educators. Agricultural policy instruction, in particular, has an opportunity to make economic abstractions meaningful and to get students involved in the learning process by analyzing relevant policy issues. Students can actively participate in a policy formulation learning process through role-playing simulation in which they represent people involved in real-world situations and make decisions based on available information. Such simulation helps students understand the policy-making process and the relationship between policy making and its results. This paper describes role playing simulation in agricultural policy classes.

Some management objectives of the peasant farmer: An analysis of risk aversion in the choice of cropping pattern, Surat district, India

The basis of peasant farmers’ decision‐making is a critical factor in the formation of agricultural policy in developing countries. If farmers operate efficiently, implying that profits are maximised, then incomes can only be increased by introducing improved methods of production; if farmers do not act efficiently, it may be desirable to reallocate resources within traditional agriculture. Similarly, predictions of farmers’ responses to price changes and thus the impact on aggregate production and employment1 are based on assumptions regarding farmers’ management objectives. The primary aim of this paper is to examine empirically the cropping patterns chosen by a group of peasant farmers in Surat District, India, using a simple model of risk aversion. The data show that the observed behaviour corresponds very closely to the hypothesis that farmers allocate land to different crops by striking some balance between the competing criteria of (a) increasing income and (b) decreasing risk measured by income va...