Global Agriculture and the American Farmer: Opportunities for U.S. Leadership
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| Rating | : | 4.97 (510 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1933286989 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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In this work, Kim Elliott shows that these same policies are harmful to the poor, especially poor farmers, in developing countries and suggests ways that harm could be reduced.Anne Krueger, Senior Research Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies; Senior Fellow, Stanford Center for International Development. It has long been recognized that American farm policy is costly and inefficient and helps large farmers much more than smaller ones
policymakers could take in the relatively short run to improve farm policiesfor American taxpayers and consumers as well as for the poor and vulnerable in developing countries.. But that generosity is undercut by U.S. The United States is one of the world’s largest producers and exporters of a range of agricultural commodities, and the largest provider of foreign assistance, so U.S. policies have big effects on global food security and other global public goods linked to agriculture. support for farmers that distorts global markets and ignores negative spillovers for the rest of the world.In this book, Elliott focuses on three policy areas that are particularly damaging for developing countries: traditional agricultural subsidy and trade policies that support the incomes of American farmers at the expense of farmers elsewhere; the biofuels mandate, which in its current form increases market volatility while doing little if anything to mitigate climate change; and weak regulation of antibiotic use in livestock, which contributes to the global spread of drug-resistant super bugs. While noting that broad reforms are needed to fix these problems, Elliott also identifies practical steps that U.S. On the positi