Agricultural Policy Reform : Politics and Process in the EU and US in the 1990s (Paperback)

Contents: Introduction; The analytical framework for farm policy reform; The search for an agricultural policy paradigm shift; Reform frustrated: the Uruguay round, 1986-1990; The 1990 US farm bill - reducing the budget, but minimizing the pain; The 1992 MacSharry reform of the CAP; Reform revived: the Dunkel draft, the Blair house accord and the WTO agreement on agriculture; The FAIR act of 1996 - decoupling payments from production; Agenda 2000 - new reforms for the CAP; The 2000 agricultural negotiations; Reform compared: similarities and differences between the US and EU; The future of agricultural policy reform in the EU and the US; Bibliography; Index.