Mediterranean agriculture is by and large envisaged as a landscape of small farms of high nature value producing worldwide recognisable quality food products that make up the basis of the famous Mediterranean diet and shape Southern European cultures. However, the dynamics developing in the...

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- TABLES -- CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER II. LANDHOLDING IN EGYPT BEFORE THE FRENCH OCCUPATION -- CHAPTER III. CHANGES IN EGYPTIAN LAND TENURE: 1798-1815 -- CHAPTER IV. MUHAMMAD 'ALI AND LANDHOLDING REFORM AFTER 1815 -- CHAPTER V. ADMINISTRATION OF EGYPT...

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Abbreviations Used in Notes -- I. Agricultural History, Organizations and Protection Prior to 1880 -- II. A Decade of Depression -- III. The Syndicats agricoles -- IV. Nationalist Economic Theory -- V. The Campaign for Protection -- VI. The Passage of the...

pt. 1. Future scenarios for the CAP -- pt. 2. Political economy of CAP reform -- pt. 3. The CAP reform and its impact on EU agriculture -- pt. 4. The impact of CAP reform on specific sectors -- pt. 5. The environmental impact of CAP reform -- pt. 6. Cross-compliance and agro-environmental...

Agricultural policies are dominated by broad measures such as market price support and general payments to all land, animals or farmers. As a result, it is often difficult to associate a particular policy with any specific objective. Recognising the challenge facing policy makers who wish to...

This publication looks at the importance of the EU sugar industry in the global sugar market. It analyses how sugar reforms adopted by the EU council in 2006 have led to market changes. The first part of this report looks at what might happen if complete policy reform and full trade...

This report attempts to guide policy-makers to the best possible decisions taking account of the multifunctional character of agriculture. Policy-makers and analysts are supplied with a series of detailed questions which will help determine whether government intervention is required and, if so,...

This report provides an overview of the main characteristics and structure of the current Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and its developments in the last 25 years in a changing environment within and outside the EU. Drawing on material presented at the OECD Workshop on the Disaggregated...

The European Union (EU) Regular Economic Report (RER), is an annual publication of the World Bank Group and covers economic developments, prospects, and economic policies in the European Union. The report finds that while growth is back on track, the bottom 40 percent of the income distribution...