Agricultural Policy

The Europeanisation of Intergovernmental Cooperation and Conflict Resolution In Belgium: The Case of Agriculture

by Tom Delreux

Beyers J., Delreux T., Steensels C. (2004), 'The Europeanisation of Intergovernmental Cooperation and Conflict Resolution In Belgium: The Case of Agriculture' in Perspectives on European Politics and Society, 5(1): p. 103-134.

Analysing institutional arrangements for agrienvironmental schemes in Europe: ITAES WP4 Final Report

by Melf-Hinrich Ehlers

The Significance of Cost Recovery for the Regulation of Agricultural Health

by Opi Outhwaite

Co-authored with Robert Black and Angela Laycock
2008, Journal of Law and Society, 35 (1)(s), 126-148

Time on their hands

by Tanya King

Adaptations to climate change, drought and desertification: local insights to enhance policy in southern Africa

by Lindsay Stringer

Stringer LC, Dyer JC, Reed MS, Dougill AJ, Twyman C, Mkwambisi M 2009 Adaptations to climate change, drought and desertification: local insights to enhance policy in southern Africa. Environmental Science and Policy 12 (7) 748-765

The impacts of climate change, drought and desertification are closely interlinked, and mostacutely experienced by... more The impacts of climate change, drought and desertification are closely interlinked, and mostacutely experienced by populations whose livelihoods depend principally on natural resources. Given the increases in extreme weather events projected to affect the Southern Africa region, it is essential to assess how household and community-level adaptations have been helped or hindered by institutional structures and national policy instruments. In particular, there is a need to reflect on efforts related to the United Nations’ environmental conventions to ensure that policies support the maintenance of local adaptations and help retain the resilience of socio-economic and environmental systems. This paper examines three interlinked drivers of adaptation: climate change, desertification and drought, assessing the extent to which international and national policy supports local adaptive strategies in three countries in southern Africa. We show that while common ground exists between desertification and climate change adaptations at the policy level, they are insufficiently mainstreamed within broader development approaches. Similarly, there are some overlaps between policy-driven and autonomous local adaptations, but the mutually supportive links between them are poorly developed. Further efforts to integrate local adaptation strategies within policy could increase local resilience to environmental change, while also contributing to wider development goals.

The effects of a changing institutional environment on academic research practices: three cases from agricultural science

by Laurens Hessels

co-authored with John Grin and Ruud Smits

This paper investigates the varying effects of a changing institutional environment on academic research practices in... more This paper investigates the varying effects of a changing institutional environment on academic research practices in three fields of Dutch animal science. Our analysis shows that the shifts in funding have stimulated interactions with societal stakeholders in fields where this has helped to sustain a basic
research agenda. In other fields researchers experience a tension between satisfying the needs of application-oriented funding sources and reaching high scores on evaluations dominated by bibliometric indicators. The paper concludes with the identification of three field characteristics that seem to moderate the effects of institutional changes on academic research practices.

Agricultural Policies and Local Grievances in Rural Rwanda

by Chris Huggins

A historical perspective on the 'Global Land Rush'

by Chris Huggins

Commissioned and published by the International Land Coalition's project on "Commercial Pressures on Land"

Using a broad historical and conceptual scope, this paper acknowledges the difficulties inherent in drawing neat... more Using a broad historical and conceptual scope, this paper acknowledges the difficulties inherent in drawing neat conclusions regarding a long history of unequal relations around agricultural production and trade. It argues that the “land rush” is only the most overt aspect of a more insidious pattern of external control over decisions which critically compromises local livelihoods in the global South. Rather than becoming fixated solely on the idea of foreign direct investment, the report warns that wider questions should be considered: what is the future of agricultural production in the developing world, particularly in Africa, and what is the role of the smallholder farmer in the future? Without a commitment to an equitable and sustainable future for rural producers, the author concludes, any temporary investment is merely a distraction, not a solution.

“We’re European Farmers Now”: Transitions and transformations in Basque agricultural practices.

by Meredith Welch-Devine

Co-authored with Seth Murray.  Published in the Anthropological Journal of European Cultures

In this essay, we discuss the economic constraints and opportunities that Basque farmers in two neighbouring valleys... more In this essay, we discuss the economic constraints and opportunities that Basque farmers in two neighbouring valleys in France faced before the 2003 reforms of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). In the last decade, constraints and opportunities have shifted, and farmers have diversified their economic strategies in order to cope with a rise in rural tourism and second home ownership, an expansion of leisure activities into what has historically been an agricultural territory, and the implications that the uncertain future of the European Union’s CAP has for small family farmers in this area. We examine this diversification of household economic strategies to include non-agricultural activities and the implications it has for economic health and rural livelihoods in the Basque region.

Pros and cons of cotton production in Uzbekistan

by Nodir Djanibekov

with Rudenko, I., Lamers, J.P.A. and I. Bobojonov (2010): In: Pinstrup-Andersen, P. and F. Cheng (eds.): Food Policy for Developing Countries: Food Production and Supply Policies, Case Study No. 7-9, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 13 pp.

Commentary: DNA-typing and super dairies - changing farming practices and contested rural futures

by Chris Bear

Co-authored with Lewis Holloway, 'Environment and Planning A', Vol. 43, pp.1487-1491, 2011

Farm Subsidies and the Logic of Collective Action

by Eric Gallager

Wrote this at the end of the first semester of my Politics and Values class freshman year, for our American Politics unit. My professor was Steven Kelts and my teaching assistant was Richie Wilcox.

In this paper I show how the current distribution of farm subsidies is an example of the collective action problem. In this paper I show how the current distribution of farm subsidies is an example of the collective action problem.

Reassignment of Farm Subsidies

by Eric Gallager

This was my big research paper for my University Writing class, which is the freshman writing program that all GW undergraduate students have to take. My specific section was about food issues in America. The professor was Shelly Mackenzie.

In this paper I argue that farm subsidies be reallocated away from corn. In this paper I argue that farm subsidies be reallocated away from corn.

Apontamentos sobre a Constituição Agrária Portuguesa

by Manuel David Masseno

in Jorge Miranda, Org.: "Perspectivas Constitucionais. Nos 20 Anos da Constituição de 1976", Vol. I, Coimbra: Coimbra Editora, 1996

Novas variações sobre um dos temas do Direito Agrário Industrial

by Manuel David Masseno

in "Boletim do Ministério da Justiça - Documentação e Direito Comparado", N. 77/78, 1999

A tutela dos interesses particulares dos agricultores no ordenamento das águas. Será que existe uma alternativa lá para o poente?

by Manuel David Masseno

in "Estudos jurídicos e económicos em homenagem ao Professor João Lumbrales", Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa, 2000