1 / 9

Reconciling objectives at sectoral, national and regional levels

Reconciling objectives at sectoral, national and regional levels. Experiences with regional co-operation Ancel van Royen Counsellor Agriculture Permanent delegation of the Netherlands OECD Paris. Synergies and trade offs in regional frameworks. Lessons of Policy reforms.

ollie
Download Presentation

Reconciling objectives at sectoral, national and regional levels

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Reconciling objectives at sectoral, national and regional levels • Experiences with regional co-operation • Ancel van Royen • Counsellor Agriculture • Permanent delegation of the Netherlands • OECD • Paris

  2. Synergies and trade offs in regional frameworks Lessons of Policy reforms Role of the Civil Society

  3. Experiences in theEuropeanUnion Condition of succes Comparison EU-NEPAD Common Agricultural Policy in Europe Comparison CAP-CAADP Agricultural development in Netherlands

  4. European Union successful example of economic cooperation that has led to economic integration What were the factors that led to the succes ?Geo political conditionsExternal supportSmall startSupra national characterAgreement on fundamental values

  5. European Union-NEPAD NEPAD large and deep EU small and limited NEPAD platform for co-ordination EU transfer of power NEPAD young EU more than 50 years old

  6. Common Agricultural Policy in Europe • Policy Objectives: • Increase of production • Fair income for farmers • Reasonable prices for consumers • Conclusion 1 • Policy objectives realised in reasonable effective way under prevailing political circumstances • Conclusion 2 • CAP succumbed to its succes

  7. CAP-CAADP • CAP limited policy objectives CAADP more ambiteous • CAP transfer of power to EU Commission CAADP more intention • CAP old style solution for Africa? • NO • Extremely costly • Trade distorting • Conditions in the food chain are different

  8. Experience with policy adjustment Extremely difficult problem Try to avoid te need for policy adjusment by carefull formulation of policy objectives and policy deseign targetting Do not try to kill two birds with one stone Be aware of rent seeking behavior of target groups Be aware of vested interest engage interest groups in adjustment.

  9. Agriculture in the Netherlands 120 years ago • 60% of the population working in agriculture • Poverty • Small scale and inefficient farms • Imports of low priced commodities from US,Canada and Ukraine • Policy response in the Netherlands • Investment in agricultural research, education and extension services • Farmer co-operatives to increase market power. • Result • A more competitive and advanced agriculture

More Related