The economics of regulation in agriculture : compliance with public and private standards /

This volume investigates the cost implications and competitiveness effects resulting from regulations and standards in the fields of environment, human health and animal welfare and production-linked rules of "good agricultural conditions" for a range of agricultural products in the EU, US...

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Other Authors: Brouwer, Floor, Fox, Glenn, Jongeneel, R. A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK ; Boston, MA : CABI, c2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Floor Brouwer, Glenn Fox and Roel Jongeneel
  • The role of cross compliance in greening EU agricultural policy / Kaley Hart, Martin Farmer and David Baldock
  • State and federal responses to increasing input intensity in the US / Jonathan Winsten and Lynn G. Knight
  • Canadian agricultural environmental policy: from the right to farm to farming right / Predrag Rajsic, Elizabeth Ramlal and Glenn Fox / Decentralized, outcome oriented management of agricultural environmental issues in New Zealand / Anton Meister and Nicole Beechey
  • Voluntary certification schemes and legal standards in the EU / Roel Jongeneel and Thomas Herzfeld
  • Environmental and health standards in the dairy sectors of the EU, the US and New Zealand / Irina Bezlepkina, Roel Jongeneel, Floor Brouwer, Koen Dillen, Anton Meister, Kees de Roest and Matty Demont
  • An EU/US perspective on nutrient management policies and growth hormone bans in the beef sector / Kees de Roest, Jonathan Winsten and Koen Dillen
  • Good agricultural and environmental conditions in the EU and their implications for international trade in cereals / Roel Jongeneel, Xavier Poux and Glenn Fox
  • Trade effects of environmental and animal welfare standards in the hog sectors of the EU, US and Canada / Kees de Roest, Jonathan Winsten, Predeg Rajsic and Koen Dillen
  • Environmental standards in the fruits and vegetables sector of Spain / Consuelo Varela-Ortega and Paloma Esteve
  • Evaluating WTO institutions for resolving trade disputes involving non-tariff measures: four cases involving Brazil / Sílvia Helena Galvão de Miranda
  • Meeting standards in EU agriculture: the changing policy context / Vicki Swales
  • The pollution haven hypothesis and the location of livestock production: two North American case studies / Alfons Weersink
  • Cost effectiveness of sediment abatement policies in potato production: assessing policies in Canada, the Netherlands and the US / John Baptist D. Jatoe, Alfons Weersink, B. James Deaton and Emmanuel K. Yiridoe
  • Environmental compliance costs in developed country agricultures: implications for trade and competitiveness / Glenn Fox and Floor Brouwer.