Providing an enabling environment
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Date of publication
Novembre 2013
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ISBN / Resource ID
Rural21-Vol:47-Nr:4/2013-Article:2
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The basic role for agricultural policies consists of providing the core investments and services that farmers need to develop their operations into viable farm businesses. Focusing on the sector’s enabling environment benefits both agriculture and the wider rural economy, facilitating the construction of diversified rural economies. Such policies are likely to be more effective in the long term than subsidies or market interventions, which have the opposite tendency.