Adjustment in OECD Agriculture
Subtitle: Reforming Farmland Policies
By: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]:
Number of pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9789264162617
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Description: This book brings together two studies both related to the very important issue of land: it examines the way in which agricultural and other policies affect how it changes hands, its value and use patterns. The first study looks at policies affecting farmland mobility and calls for an easing of regulations to allow the agricultural sector to be more responsive to market forces. The second study shows that agricultural support is often capitalised into land and other asset values. As a result there is strong resistance to policy reform, entry into the agricultural sector is difficult and the recipients of benefits are not always those intended when the policies were put in place.
Table of contents: title: PART I. POLICIES AFFECTING FARMLAND MOBILITY; title: I. Introduction; title: II. Policy intervention in farmland markets; title: Legislation restricting transfers of farmland ownership and lease; title: Farm tenancy law (lease term and rent); title: Inheritance arrangements; title: Public bodies affecting the farmland market; title: A. Policies in OECD countries; title: B. Case study; title: SAFERs in France; title: Foreign ownership; title: A. Policies in OECD countries; title: B. Case study; title: The United States; title: III. Physical planning or zoning; title: A. Policies in OECD countries; title: B. Case study; title: Germany; title: IV. Tax concessions; title: A. Policies in OECD countries; title: B. Case study; title: Japan; title: V. Summary and conclusions; title: Motivation for land policies; title: Policy questions; title: Review and updating; title: a challenge for Agriculture Ministries?; title: Bibliography; title: PART II. FARM ASSET VALUES AND AGRICULTURAL SUPPORT; title: I. Introduction; title: II. Capitalisation of agricultural support; title: III. Identifying who actually benefits from support; title: IV. Reduced support and asset values; title: V. Facilitating reform; title: VI. Summary and Policy Recommendations; title: Bibliography