Agricultural Policy in Western Europe and the United States

After providing a background to agricultural policy in the two regions, the authors focus on specific issues including:

€ development policy and trade intervention up to 1930 € a review of the major adjustments to agricultural policy in the world depression of the 1930s € agricultural adjustment and trade interaction between 1940 and 1973, including the enlargement of the EC, the formation of CAP and the foundation of GATT € an examination of the growth in agricultural protection in the 1980s and the effects of the Uruguay Round of GATT negotiations on trade conflicts € the EU's 1992 reform of CAP € policy reforms in the 1990s in the US and Western Europe and the prospects for the future.