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Agricultural Policy in the Republic of Croatia from Agricultural toward Sustainable Rural Development
Ramona FRANIĆ
Tito ŽIMBREK
Zoran GRGIĆ
Sažetak
In the paper we have started from the supposition that
Croatian agricultural policy in its elements (policy objectives,
measures and methods, stakeholders, results), has been
transformed due to the impact of the world food market
enlargement and economic globalization. Priorities, forms
and dynamics of intervention have been changed, which was
in the past decade enriched by a new dimension: the
introduction of the concept of sustainable development of
rural areas. The emphasis of the analysis is on the price and
subsidy policy that makes up the skeleton of the agricultural
policy during the entire analyzed period. By state intervention indicators the level of foreign trade protection and domestic
support has been evaluated. Although the nominal indicators
point out a relatively highly protected agricultural sector,
effective protection of domestic producers has been
considerably lower, due to high costs of agricultural inputs
and the influence of world prices. At the end of the analyzed
period, a shift in Croatian agricultural policy has been
noticed toward the model of non-price support. The key
elements of sustainable development are identified, and
introduced into agricultural research and also into the
legislation background of the policy of agricultural and rural
development. In the near future considerable reform of the
agricultural policy strategic objectives and measures toward
structural support and sustainable development are to be
expected as well as toward the policy of direct income
support for farmers.
Ključne riječi
Hrčak ID:
19274
URI
Datum izdavanja:
31.12.2003.
Posjeta: 4.108 *