OECD Review of Agricultural Policies
Subtitle: Chile 2008
By: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Series: OECD Review of Agricultural Policies
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9789264042247
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Description: This Review measures the level and composition of support provided to Chilean agriculture, and evaluates the effectiveness of current measures in attaining their objectives. The study finds that Chile provides much lower support and protection to its agricultural sector than most OECD countries, even though government expenditures on the sector have trebled in real terms over the past ten years. About half of that spending is on public goods such as infrastructure and irrigation, while the other half consists mostly of measures that seek to make Chile’s poorer farmers more competitive. This report suggests ways in which the effectiveness of these policies might be enhanced, including by systematic evaluation of policy performance, by closer co-ordination across government agencies, and by framing policies for smallholders and salaried farm workers in an economy-wide context, so that agricultural policies can focus on potentially competitive farmers and be effectively distinguished from other development and social policies.
Table of contents: title: Highlights and Policy Recommendations; title: The Policy Context; title: Policy Evaluation; title: Development Pathways for Agriculture-dependent Households.