OECD Food and Agricultural Reviews Innovation, Productivity and Sustainability in Food and Agriculture Main Findings from Country Reviews and Policy Lessons

OECD Food and Agricultural Reviews Innovation, Productivity and Sustainability in Food and Agriculture Main Findings from Country Reviews and Policy Lessons
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2019-10-03
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ISBN: 9264833919

Markets that function well within a stable regulatory and policy environment are key to improving the productivity and sustainability of the food and agriculture sector. This report contains the main findings and policy lessons gained from a series of wide-ranging country reviews on how government policies can improve sectoral productivity and sustainability through their impact on innovation, structural change, natural resource use, and climate change. Improving the policy environment would require rolling back those policies that distort markets the most and retain farmers in uncompetitive and low-income activities, harm the environment, stifle innovation, slow structural and generational change, and weaken resilience.

OECD Food and Agricultural Reviews Innovation, Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability in Brazil

OECD Food and Agricultural Reviews Innovation, Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability in Brazil
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2015-07-13
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ISBN: 9264237054

Agriculture and the agro-processing sector in Brazil have shown impressive growth over the past two decades. This has largely been driven by productivity improvements and structural adjustment resulting from broad economic reforms, as well as new technologies developed by agricultural science.

OECD Food and Agricultural Reviews Innovation, Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability in China

OECD Food and Agricultural Reviews Innovation, Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability in China
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2018-10-04
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ISBN: 9264085297

The expansion of agricultural production in China has been remarkable, but at the expense of the sustainable use of its natural resources. To counter this, as well as to face problems due to rising labour costs and a rapidly ageing rural population, agricultural production must concentrate on a ...

OECD Food and Agricultural Reviews Innovation, Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability in Korea

OECD Food and Agricultural Reviews Innovation, Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability in Korea
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2018-12-05
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ISBN: 926430777X

Agriculture in Korea is under increasing pressure to meet changing domestic demand, improve its productivity to keep up with the country's competitive manufacturing sector, and become more competitive at the international level. To date, the government has offered extensive support to farm ...

OECD Food and Agricultural Reviews Innovation, Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability in Estonia

OECD Food and Agricultural Reviews Innovation, Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability in Estonia
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2018-02-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9264288740

Estonian agriculture has undergone significant growth and structural change since the 1990s in a policy and regulatory environment that has been mostly supportive of investment. The implementation of the Common Agricultural Policy has contributed to the modernisation of the country's agriculture.