Food, Agriculture, and Rural Policy into the Twenty-First Century: Issues and Trade-Offs

by Milton C. Hallberg (Editor)

Overview

This book contributes to 1995 policymaking by offering information concerning an array of issues fundamentally important to the U.S. agricultural and food sector. It reviews a set of policy approaches for dealing with these issues, and assesses trade-offs among these alternative approaches.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780429723278
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	04/12/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	424
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Hallberg, Milton C.

Table of Contents

Part 1 The setting: the economic setting for US food and agriculture; world food and agricultural economy,; evolution of US food and agricultural policy - 1970s to 1990s,; structure of food and agricultural sector. Part 2 The issues - environment: water, agriculture and public policy; land-use issues; sustainable agriculture, Part 3 The issues - food and food aid: domestic food-aid programmes; overseas food-aid programmes, food quality - safety, nutrition and labelling. Part 4 The issues - international agriculture: international trade agreements; US agricultural trade policy. Part 5 The issues - commodity-policy issues: farm prices, income, stability and distribution; agricultural-supply control; commodity policy. Part 6 The issues - marketing and risk management: federal marketing orders; commodity-promotion programmes; policy alternatives to protect against crop failure in US agriculture. Part 7 The issues - rural programmes and education: rural development and human-resource adjustment; rural credit programmes; issues in research and education.