Advanced Training in Agricultural Economics & Environment - Agricultural Trade and Policy

OCP Policy Center, Rabat.

The course examines:

• The Ways in which opening to trade can help raise incomes in both importing and exporting countries;
• The policy approaches used by developing country policy makers to manage and regulate agricultural trade;
• The use of protection to raise domestic output, and reduce domestic consumption, and policies to reduce the cost of food to urban consumers;
• The use of variable rates of protection to stabilize domestic prices relative to world market prices in individual countries;
• The collective action problems resulting from use of trade policies to raise and stabilize domestic prices.

Objectives :

An understanding of the role of trade policy in raising incomes and achieving food security, and the potential role of trade agreements in managing the collective action problems that bedevil trade in agricultural products.