OECD Review of Agricultural Policies
Subtitle: Slovenia 2001
By: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Series: OECD Review of Agricultural Policies
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9789264188365
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Description: OECD's 2001 review of Slovenia's agricultural policies. It finds that successful macroeconomic recovery and major progress towards international integration marked Slovenia’s first decade of independence. This should have a positive impact on the domestic agro-food sector, prompting the shift of human and financial resources into more competitive areas and driving down production costs. With EU membership fast approaching and commitments to WTO and CEFTA to be upheld, Slovenia needs to limit price-distorting policies in the agro-food sector and to focus on structural adjustment, especially to reduce farm fragmentation, enlarge the commercially viable farm sector, and restructure and modernise the food industry. Given the high importance of rural areas in Slovenia, an effective rural diversification strategy targeted to generate off-farm incomes for rural people is vital to support the progress towards a more market-oriented agriculture. The Review analyses developments since Slovenia gained independence in 1991. It evaluates key structural issues, examines emerging policy developments and provides detailed estimates of support to agriculture, using the OECD’s Producer and Consumer Support Estimates (PSEs/CSEs). For those involved in central and eastern European agriculture and agro-food policies, markets and trade, the Review offers unique information and analysis. Policy makers, businesses and researchers will find it an indispensable reference for years to come.
Table of contents: title: Summary, Conclusions, and Recommendations; title: The Macroeconomic Environment; title: Agricultural Situation; title: Agricultural Policies; title: Overall Budgetary Outlays on Agricultural Policies; title: Measuring Support to Agriculture; title: Conclusions and Recommendations; title: Part 1: Macroeconomic Environment; title: -General Aspects; title: Macroeconomic Developments; title: Part II. Situation of the Agro-Food Sector; title: -Role of the Agro-Food Sector in the Economy; title: Agricultural Sector; title: Agricultural Trade and Trade Relations; title: Agricultural Privatisation and Farm Restructuring; title: Upstrem and Downstream Sectors; title: Agriculture and the Environment; title: Part III. Agricultural and Food Policies: Objectives and Measures; title: -Agricultural Policy Framework; title: Domestic Support of Market Prices; title: Area and Headage Payments; title: Reduction of Input Costs; title: Trade Measures; title: Structural and Rural Development Measures; title: Agro-Environmental Indicators; title: General Services; title: Tax Policies and Social Security Measures; title: Commodity Specific Measures; title: Overall Budgetary Outlays on Agro-Food Policies; title: Part IV. Evaluation of Support to Agriculture; title: Aggregate Results; title: Commodity Profile of Producer Support; title: Annex: Assistance to Slovenian Agriculture; title: Introduction; title: Concepts and Methodology; title: Estimation of Slovenian PSEs and PSEs from 1992 to 1999; title: Supporting Tables; title: Bibliography