Research Reports
Domestic Application of OECD Activities on Agriculture and Food in 2012
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AuthorSong, Jooho
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Publication Date2012.09.30
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The purpose of this study is to review the issues discussed at the sessions of 2012 OECD Committee for Agriculture(CoAg) and its subsidiary bodies (APM: Working Party on Agricultural Policies and Markets, JWPAT: Joint Working Party on Agriculture and Trade, and JWPAE: Joint Working Party on Agriculture and Environment) and prepare ways to respond to the issues so that Korea's stance can be reflected in the discussions. In addition, this study drew implications for Korea's agricultural policy by finding out the market trend and agricultural policies that are most discussed in the OECD in 2012 and by analyzing the policy responses of major countries.
At the 158th meeting of CoAg, discussions were held based on the recent policy environment concerning the final approval of key, as well as optional, tasks that will define the activities of the committee working parties for 2013 and 2014. The major research topics selected were, among others, agro-food policy, trade and development, and sustainability of agriculture and fisheries. Korea has strongly supported the research activities on crisis management and food security and stated its policy stance that such research should be detailed to conduct analysis related to the actual trade including international market structure and distribution process.
The topics that were discussed at the 56th and 57th APM sessions were, among others, biofuel policy trend of the United States, OECD-FAO agricultural outlook for 2012, scenario analysis of mill price fluctuation, development of probability models and analysis of price fluctuation, food security, food chain and agricultural market, public disclosure of the OECD report on monitoring and evaluation of agricultural policies for 2012, agricultural investment policy, and research progress on crisis management. In the annual report on monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of agricultural policies of member countries, analysis results of the policy evaluation model (PEM) were presented for the first time. As this is the case, an extensive understanding of the model is required and it is necessary to review in advance how the changes in the international environment will affect the evaluation of agricultural policies of Korea. Also, it is necessary to seek appropriate countermeasures.
At the 67th meeting of the Joint Working Party on Agriculture and Trade (JWPAT), member countries discussed what progress has been made regarding the report on design and implementation of food import regulations and requested the Secretariat Office to complement and improve the research on technical barriers to trade (TBT) with additional case studies. Since the research on free trade agreement is on the increase gradually at JWPAT, it would be desirable to properly find out reference data that may be considered in preparing FTAs.
The topics that were discussed at the 33rd session of the Joint Working Party on Agriculture and Environment were, among others, as follows: green growth and agricultural environment policies of member countries, utilization and efficiency of resources and energy in the agro-food sector, comparative research on crisis management of climate change in agriculture, climate change-related policies and agriculture-related modeling options, carbon price modeling in connection with Aglink, the GEOSHARE database project, progress on revising a report on environmental achievements in the agricultural sector, provision of public goods for agricultural environment through collective actions, and comparative projections on the demand for irrigation water. In order to evaluate green growth in the future, it is necessary to assemble agro-food green growth policies of OECD member countries and conduct in-depth research on the efficiency of using resources and energy. With respect to responding to climate change, it looks like that models such as Aglink and IMPACT will continuously be developed. Accordingly, Korea, too, should seek ways to actively use such models.
Researchers: Joo-Ho Song, Chang-gil Kim, Ho-Guen Chung, Dae-Sup Lee, Suk-Ho Han, Dae-hum Kwon, Hanpil Moon, Han-Ul Park
E-mail address: jhsong@krei.re.kr
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