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Review of OECD Research Activities on Agriculture and Rural Communities in the letter half of 2012
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AuthorSong, Jooho
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Publication Date2013.04.30
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The purpose of this study is to review the issues discussed in the second half of 2012 at the sessions of OECD Committee for Agriculture(CoAg) and its subsidiary bodies (APM: Working Party on Agricultural Policies and Markets, JWPAT: Joint Working Party on Agriculture and Trade, and JWPAE: Joint Working Party on Agriculture and Environment). This study drew some policy implications for Korean agriculture by finding out the global market trend and prominent agricultural policies that are recently discussed in the OECD in 2012 and by analyzing the policy responses of major countries.
Before the 159th meeting of CoAg, Global Forum on Agriculture was held based on 'Policy coherence for food security in developing countries.' Specifically it is proposed to take stock of the spill-overs of national agricultural and agriculture-related policies, to examine ways in which aid and aid-related policies can better support a structured prioritisation of investments to improve food security, to consider ways in which governments can encourage the kinds of private investment. At the meeting of CoAg, new directions for agricultural policy in U.S. EU, China among others are discussed, focusing on sustainability, productivity enhancement, adaption to climate change, and risk management on agriculture.
The key issues that were discussed at the 58th APM sessions were proposals for 2013 report on monitoring and evaluation of agricultural policies and 2013 OECD-FAO agricultural outlook, introduction of Chinese agriculture, measuring the incidence of policies along the food chain, waste management in the food chain, policy framework for investment in agriculture, smallholder risk management in developing countries, a conference proposal for livestock diseases, global food security. Specifically, the report on global food security summarized the challenges for the world food and agriculture system and drawed insights from existing and ongoing OECD work and identifies areas where future OECD analysis can make an effective contribution to policy discussions.
At the 68th meeting of the Joint Working Party on Agriculture and Trade (JWPAT), member countries discussed the impacts of non-tariff measures on agricultural trade, the constraints to agricultural trade of developing countries, export restrictions on agricultural product, the impact of regional trade agreements on Chilean fruit exports. Since the research on free trade agreement is expected to increase gradually at JWPAT, it would be desirable to properly find out reference data that may be considered in preparing FTAs.
The main topics that were discussed at the 34th session of the Joint Working Party on Agriculture and Environment(JWPAE) were as follows: policy measures for supporting green growth, climate change-related policies and agriculture-related modeling options, carbon price modeling in connection with Aglink, the GEOSHARE database project, and comparative projections on the demand for irrigation water. In order to evaluate green growth in the future, it is necessary to assemble agro-food green growth policies of OECD member countries and conduct in-depth research on the efficiency of using resources and energy. With respect to responding to climate change, it looks like that models such as Aglink and IMPACT will continuously be developed. Accordingly, Korea should also seek ways to actively use such models.
Researchers: Song Joo-Ho, Kim Chang-gil, Chung Ho-Guen, Lee Dae-Sup, Moon Hanpil, Kang Hye-Jung, Park Han-Ul
E-mail address: jhsong@krei.re.kr
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