Policy Articles

Amendments of the Agricultural Land Act and Measures for Tackling the Idle Farmland Problem

Kunio Nishikawa
2014.12.27
Kunio Nishikawa College of Agriculture, Ibaraki University, Japan   INTRODUCTION The idle farmland[1] problem is one of the most significant policy matters in Japanese agricultural policy. The increase in idle farmlands makes difficult to achieve the target of food self-sufficiency...
Country: Japan Topic: Agricultural land policies
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The Japanese Government’s Proposal on the Agricultural Committee Reform

Kunio Nishikawa
2014.12.27
Kunio Nishikawa College of Agriculture, Ibaraki University, Japan   INTRODUCTION The larger idle farmlands have increased, the more strongly it has been insisted that the function of the Agricultural Committee (AC) should be strengthened as “a guardian of farmland”. In my...
Country: Japan Topic: Agricultural land policies
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Agricultural Disaster Insurance Policy in Indonesia

Tahlim Sudaryanto
2014.12.19
Tahlim Sudaryanto Senior Agricultural Economist, Indonesian Center for Agricultural Socio Economic and Policy Studies, Ministry of Agriculture, email:tahlim@indo.net.id   Introduction Indonesia is one of the countries that are prone to natural disasters affect agriculture due to...
Country: Indonesia Topic: Agricultural risk management
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Policies to support the application of good agricultural practice in agriculture, forestry and fishery production

Tran Cong Thang
2014.12.18
Tran Cong Thang Vice Director General Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development No.16- Thuy Khue Street- Hanoi- Vietnam   Tel: 84-4-37282590   (Article 4. Decision No. 01/2012/QD-TTg) After joining the WTO, Vietnam's agricultural product...
Country: Vietnam Topic: Agriculture
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Approving the Scheme on Vocational Training for Rural Workers by 2020

Tran Cong Thang
2014.12.18
Tran Cong Thang Vice Director General Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development No.16- Thuy Khue Street- Hanoi- Vietnam   Tel: 84-4-37282590   (Article 3. Decision No. 1956/QD-TTg) With target of annually training for about 1 million rural...
Country: Vietnam Topic: Agricultural science policies
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