Agriculture generates roughly one-quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions. By 2050, without major mitigation efforts, agricultural emissions are likely to reach levels that would make meeting global climate targets practically unachievable.
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IFPRI's flagship report examines the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions of 2012.
India: Shadow WTO agricultural domestic support notifications
"In this study, we examined India's domestic support policies to understand their classification and measurement for the purposes of official World Trade Organization (WTO) notifications.
In this study, we examine the implications of the May 2008 WTO draft agricultural modalities for India’s market access and domestic support policies.
This study analyzes the evolution of agricultural policies from 1985 to 2002 in India, Indonesia, China, and Vietnam and provides empirical estimates of the degree of protection or disprotection to agriculture in these four countries, both by key
Exchange rate misalignment and its effects on agricultural producer support estimates
There have been different degrees of exchange rate disequilibrium in the developing countries during transition or reform periods since the mid 1980s.
Agricultural policies in India
Since the early 1990s, India has undergone substantial economic policy reform and economic growth. Though reforms in agricultural policy have lagged those in other sectors, they have nonetheless created a somewhat more open economic orientation.