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A Framework for Food and Agricultural Policy in the 1980s

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

John E. Lee Jr.
John E. Lee Jr.*
Affiliation:
National Economics Division, Economics, Statistics, and Cooperatives Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture
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The thesis of this article is that food and agricultural policy in the 1980s will be shaped by emerging economic, social, and political realities that are different from the realities which gave rise to policies and programs of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s and which, modified, continued through the 1970s. The characteristics of this new policy environment include:

  1. – A changed economic structure and character of United States agriculture, and thus a changed constituency with changed policy needs.

  2. – The internationalization of U.S. agriculture with its favorable and unfavorable implications, but which imposes certain constraints and disciplines on domestic agricultural and food policy.

  3. – The prospect of a new supply and demand “equilibrium” and the end of 60 years of adjustment to supply growing faster than demand.

  4. – The new, broadened context within which agricultural policies and programs must be considered.

Type
Research Article
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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , July 1980 , pp. 1 - 10
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1980

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