Allaya M. (coord.), Thabet B. (coord.). (1994). Food and agricultural policies in the Middle East and North Africa: Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, Turkey. Proceedings of the meetings held in Tunis, July 5-7, 1993. Montpellier (France) : CIHEAM-IAMM. 294 p. (Cahiers Options Méditerranéennes, n. vol. 7). Workshop on Food and Agricultural Policies in the Middle East and North Africa, 1993/07/05-07, Tunis (Tunisie). List of participants p. 293-294.
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Titre : | Food and agricultural policies in the Middle East and North Africa: Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, Turkey. Proceedings of the meetings held in Tunis, July 5-7, 1993 |
Auteurs : | M. Allaya, coord. ; B. Thabet, coord. |
Type de document : | Actes de Congrès ou Communication isolée |
Editeur : | Montpellier [France] : CIHEAM-IAMM, 1994 |
Collection : | Cahiers Options Méditerranéennes, ISSN 1022-1379, num. vol. 7 |
ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 1022-1379 |
Format : | 294 p. / 195 réf., 203 tabl., 18 graph. |
Note générale : | List of participants p. 293-294 |
Langues : | Anglais |
Langues du résumé : | Anglais |
Catégories : |
Thésaurus IAMM EGYPTE ; LIBAN ; MAROC ; SOUDAN ; TUNISIE ; TURQUIE ; POLITIQUE AGRICOLE ; POLITIQUE ALIMENTAIRE ; AGRICULTURE ; PRISE DE DECISION ; COMMUNICATION ; RECHERCHE ET DEVELOPPEMENT ; AJUSTEMENT STRUCTURELCatégories principales 08 - ALIMENTATION ; 8.3 - Politique et Sécurité Alimentaire |
Résumé : | Unlike general history of the Arab world, most past economic policies concerning the agriculture and food sectors were quite similar except for Lebanon where market traditions have not been lost despite all recent political problems the country has experienced. Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and to a smaller degree Jordan and Syria all adopted ceiling price policies for agricultural production which contributed to the relative stagnation of agricultural growth. At the same time prices of the inputs which were for the most part imported from the industrialized world kept rising. This led to the necessary need to provide public subsidies as incentives for farmers to adopt modern inputs and induce agricultural growth in the seventies and early eighties. The cost price squeeze was followed by small revisions in agricultural output prices which grew larger with the coming of the eighties. At the same time, there was the concern to stabilize the population growing demand by offering the basic food commodities at inexpensive prices. This meant providing public subsidies at the consumption level which kept rising over time. The growth in public subsidies together with the slow growth and variability in agricultural output, led to the inevitable need for economic reform that international financial institutions called for during the eighties, in many countries of the region. This resulted in the so-called structural agricultural programs under implementation in these countries. In spite of the increase of agricultural productivity due to favourable climatic conditions at the end of the eighties, it will be difficult to appreciate the negative effects of the structural adjustment measures |
Congrès : | Workshop on Food and Agricultural Policies in the Middle East and North Africa, 1993/07/05-07, Tunis (Tunisie) |
Cote : | En ligne |
URL / DOI : | http://om.ciheam.org/option.php?IDOM=714 |
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