Agricultural policy

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  • agricultural policy
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  • A course of action adopted by government or some other organization that determines how to deal with matters involving the cultivation of land; raising crops; feeding, breeding and raising livestock or poultry; and other farming issues.
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Abstract from DBPedia
    Agricultural policy describes a set of laws relating to domestic agriculture and imports of foreign agricultural products. Governments usually implement agricultural policies with the goal of achieving a specific outcome in the domestic agricultural product markets. Agricultural policies use predetermined goals, objectives and pathways set by an individual or government for the purpose of achieving a specified outcome, for the benefit of the individual(s), society and the nations' economy at large. Agricultural policies take into consideration the primary, secondary and tertiary processes in agricultural production. Outcomes can involve, for example, a guaranteed supply level, price stability, product quality, product selection, land use or employment. Agriculture has large impacts on climate change, estimated to be contributing 20–25% of global annual emissions as of 2010. Moreover, agriculture is highly vulnerable to the negative impacts of climate change, such as decreases in water access, geophysical processes such as ocean level rise and changing weather, and socioeconomic processes that affect farmers, many of whom are in subsistence economic conditions. In order for global climate change mitigation and adaptation to be effective a wide range of policies need to be implemented to reduce the risk of negative climate change impacts on agriculture and greenhouse gas emissions from the agriculture sector.

    農業政策(のうぎょうせいさく、英: agriculture policy)とは、農業に関した行政・政策のこと。農政(のうせい)とも呼ばれる。 かつての中国や日本では、勧農(かんのう)と呼ばれていた。これは儒教的な農本主義に基づくものであった。近代的な経済政策・社会政策としての農業政策が日本に登場するのは大正時代の頃と言われている。

    (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Agricultural_policy)