Introduction

Johan Swinnen

Chapter Chapter 1 in The Political Economy of Agricultural and Food Policies, 2018, pp 3-12 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Food and agriculture have been subject to heavy-handed government interventions throughout much of the history and across the globe, both in developing and in developed countries. Today more than 500 billion (half a trillion) US dollars are spent by some governments to support farmers while at the same time some governments impose regulations and taxes that hurt farmers. Political considerations are crucial to understand these policies since almost all agricultural and food policies have redistributive effects and are therefore subject to lobbying and pressure from interest groups and used by decision-makers to influence society for both economic and political reasons.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-50102-8_1

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