Monitoring Agricultural Incentives: Reflections on relevance

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Monitoring Agricultural Incentives: Reflections on Relevance IFPRI Policy Seminar | Nov 18, 2016| Washington, D.C. Holger A. Kray Head, Africa Agriculture Policy Unit [email protected]

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Monitoring Agricultural Incentives: Reflections on Relevance

IFPRI Policy Seminar | Nov 18, 2016| Washington, D.C.

Holger A. KrayHead, Africa Agriculture Policy [email protected]

Because standardized approaches establish a critical evidence base to

assessing/communicating policy impact

within & across countries.

Because agricultural support schemes do not yet sufficiently promote resilience & health outcomes

but could in fact be one of the most promising incentives in that effort

Because agriculture policy distortions tend to persist

even in times when they go very much against what the government in question wants

Because -for wider policy reform dialogue-

distortions to relative incentives are a pivotal element of the conversation

Because distortions analysis constitutes a key tool for

capacity building among

agricultural economists & policy advisers

[Because] Contemporary distortions analyses offer space for further

expansion

geographical/product scopenominal/effective measurespolicy/structural distortions

Monitoring Agricultural Incentives: Reflections on Relevance

IFPRI Policy Seminar | Nov 18, 2016| Washington, D.C.

Holger A. KrayHead, Africa Agriculture Policy [email protected]