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課程資訊

課程名稱

農業政策分析
AGRICULTURAL POLICY ANALYSIS

開課學期

97-1

授課對象

生物資源暨農學院農業經濟學研究所

授課教師

林國慶

課號

AGEC7087

課程識別碼

627EM4830

班次

學分

全/半年

半年

必/選修

必修

上課時間

星期四2,3,4(9:10~12:10)

上課地點

公共接待室

備註

本課程以英語授課。限本系「國際農業政策發展與管理」碩士班學生修習與陳郁蕙合開
總人數上限：6人

Ceiba 課程網頁

http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/971agpoan

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課程概述

This course introduces agricultural policies to the interested graduate students. It is intended for students who have studied microeconomic theory at least at the first year graduate school level. Students who have finished an advanced course in production economics are equally welcome. The objective of this course is to help students know about agricultural policies and comprehend their economic outcomes. The material of the course will have a better appreciation for the usefulness of economic theory and a good understanding of how farm programs works and with what consequences for farm output and input markets. The course will seek the right balance among description of program details, modeling program effects, and reviewing relevant policy researches.

課程目標

The objective of this course is to help students know about agricultural policies and comprehend their economic outcomes. The material of the course will have a better appreciation for the usefulness of economic theory and a good understanding of how farm programs works and with what consequences for farm output and input markets.

課程要求

It is intended for students who have studied microeconomic theory at least at the first year graduate school level. Students who have finished an advanced course in production economics are equally welcome. Grading:
midterm exam 40%, final exam
20%,and term paper 20%.

預期每週課後學習時數

Office Hours

指定閱讀

參考書目

Helmberger, Peter G., 1992, Economic Analysis of Farm Programs, McGraw-Hill,
Inc.
Peter G.J. P. Chavas, 1996, The Economics of Agricultural Prices, Prentice
Hall, Inc. Mulgan, A. G., 2006, Japan's Agricultural Policy Regime,
Routledge.
Lynggaard, K., 2006, The Common Agricultural Policy and Organic Farming,
Wallingford, UK; Cambridge, MA.
Knutson, R. D., J.B Penn, B. L. Flinchbaugh, J. L. Outlaw, 2007, Agricultural
and Food Policy, 6th ed, Upper Saddle River, N.J.
Koppel, Bruce and D. Young Kim , 1993, Land policy Problems in East Asia-
toward New Choices, East West Center and Korea Research Institute for Human
Settlements.
Friedman, Lee S., 1986, Microeconomic Policy Analysis, McGraw-Hill, New York.
Tietenberg, Tom, 2005, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Addison
Wesley Longman, Reading, Massachusetts.
Fischel, William A., The Economics of Zoning Laws, 1987, A Property Rights
Approach to American Land Use Controls, John Hopkins University Press.
Cornia, Gary C. and Jim Riddell, 2008, Toward a Vision of Land in 2015,
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Reading List:

Chapter 4 Direct Payment and Price Support programs without Production
ontrols.
Helmberger, Peter G., 1992, Economic Analysis of Farm Programs, McGraw-Hill,
Inc. pp79-100.
Chapter 7 Price Support programs and Production Controls. Helmberger, Peter
G., 1992, Economic Analysis of Farm Programs, McGraw-Hill, Inc. pp169-190.
Chapter 8 Farm programs that Idle Land. Helmberger, Peter G., 1992, Economic
Analysis of Farm Programs, McGraw-Hill, Inc. pp191-236.
Chapter 9 Analysis of Farm Programs: Part I, Helmberger, Peter G.J. P.
Chavas, 1996, The Economics of Agricultural Prices, Prentice Hall, Inc. pp.259-
267.
Chapter 10 Analysis of Farm Programs: Part II, Helmberger, Peter G.J. P.
Chavas, 1996, The Economics of Agricultural Prices, Prentice Hall, Inc. pp.291-
305.
Chapter 5 Agricultural Policies from the late 1990s, Mulgan, A. G., 2006,
Japan's Agricultural Policy Regime, Routledge. pp.104-183.
Chapter 7 The Formation of Policy Field:Organic Farming within the CAP (1993-
2005),
Lynggaard, K., 2006, The Common Agricultural Policy and Organic Farming,
Wallingford, UK; Cambridge, MA. pp.144-181.
Chapter 7 US Farm Policies, Knutson, R. D., J.B Penn, B. L. Flinchbaugh, J. L.
Outlaw, 2007, Agricultural and Food Policy, 6th ed, Upper Saddle River, N.J.
pp.86-112.
Yang, Min-Hsien and Yu-Hui Chen, 2000, The Political Economic Analysis of
Taiwanese Rice Import policy, in Food Security in Asia: Economics and
Policies, edited by Wen S. Chern, Colin A. Carter, and Shun-Yi Shei, Edward
Elgar Publishing Limited.
Chen, Yu-Hui, and Wu-Chung Lee, 2005. Future Agricultural Policy Reform for
Taiwan: A Domestic Support Approach, Dr. Sam Chung Hsieh Memorial Conference,
Chung-Hua Institution for Economics Research.
Lin, Kuo-Chin, and Yu-Hui Chen, 2006, The Future Challenges of Agricultural
Policy Reform in Taiwan. Designing Agricultural Policy in New Food
Importers: Market Access and Direct Payments. The Association for regional
Agricultural and Forestry Economics, Osaka, Japan.
Koppel, Bruce, 1993, Land Policy Problems in East Asia: Understanding the Past
and Moving toward New Choices, in Land policy Problems in East Asia-toward
New Choices, edited by Bruce Koppel and D. Young Kim, East West Center and
Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements.
Nishida, Yoshiaki, 1993, Reflections on Land Reform in Japan, in Land policy
Problems in East Asia-toward New Choices, edited by Bruce Koppel and D. Young
Kim, East West Center and Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements.
Lee, Dong-Bai, 1993, Agricultural Land Reform in Korea: A Retrospective and
Perspective Review, in Land policy Problems in East Asia-toward New Choices,
edited by Bruce Koppel and D. Young Kim, East West Center and Korea Research
Institute for Human Settlements.
Yen, Ai-Ching, 1993, The Effects of Land Reform on Changes in the Structure of
Agriculture in Taiwan in the 1950s, Reflections on Land Reform in Japan, in
Land policy Problems in East Asia-toward New Choices, edited by Bruce Koppel
and D. Young Kim, East West Center and Korea Research Institute for
Human Settlements.
Lin, Kuo-Ching, 1993, Policy Options for Agricultural Land Use in Taiwan,
Reflections on Land Reform in Japan, in Land policy Problems in East Asia-
toward New Choices, edited by Bruce Koppel and D. Young Kim, East West Center
and Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements.
Lin, Kuo-Ching, 2008, Future Challenges of Sustainable Land Use in Taiwan, in
Toward a Vision of Land in 2015, edited by Cornia, Gary C. and Jim Riddell,
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Riddell, Jim, 2008, Toward a 2015 Vision of Land, in Toward a Vision of Land
in 2015, edited by Cornia, Gary C. and Jim Riddell, Lincoln Institute of Land
Policy, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Sjaastad, Espen and Ben Cousins, 2008, Formalization of Land Rights in the
South: An Overview, Land Use Policy, Vol. 25, Issue 3.
Bromley, Daniel, W., 2008, Formalizing Property Relations in the Developing
World: The Wrong Prescription for the Wrong Malady, Land Use Policy, Vol. 25,
Issue 3.
Ho, Peter and Max Spoor, 2006, Whose Land? The Political Economy of Land
Titling in Transitional Economies, Land Use Policy, Vol. 23, Issue 4.
Boon, T. E. and H. Meilby, 2007. “Describing management attitudes to guide
forest policy implementation,” Small-scale Forestry, 6(1): 79-92.
Ruddell, S., R. Sampson, M. Smith, R. Giffen, J. Cathcart, J. Hagan, D.
Sosland, J. Godbee, J. Heissenbuttel, S. Lovett, J. Helms, W. Price, and R.
Simpson, 2007. “The role for sustainably managed forests in climate change
mitigation,” Journal of Forestry. 105(6): 314-319.
Mortimer, M.J., A.V. Scardina, and D.H. Jenkins, 2004. “Policy analysis and
national forest appeal reform,” Journal of Forestry, 102(2): 26-32.
O'Laughlin J., 2004. “Policy analysis framework for sustainable forestry:
National forest case study,” Journal of Forestry, 102(2): 34-41.
Gluck, P., 2000. “Policy means for ensuring the full value of forests to
society,” Land Use Policy. 17:177-185.
Ravindranath, N. and B. Somashekhar, 1995. “Potential and economics of
forestry options for carbon sequestration in India,” Biomass Bioenergy. 8(5):
323-336.
Stavins, R. N. and K. R. Richards, 2005. The Cost of U.S. Forest-Based Carbon
Sequestration, Pew Center on Global Climate Change, Arlington, VA.
Smith, P., 2004. “Carbon sequestration in croplands: the potential in Europe
and the global context,” European Journal of Agronomy, 20(3): 229-236
Murray, B. C., 2003. “Economics of forest carbon sequestration,” Forests in
a Market Economy. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 221-238.
Sohngen, B. and R. Mendelsohn. 2003. “An optimal control model of forest
carbon sequestration,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 85(2): 448-
457.
Huang, C. H. and G. D. Kronrad, 2001. “The cost of sequestering carbon on
private forest lands,” Forest Policy and Economics. 2(2): 133-142.
Lecocq, F. and K. Chomitz, 2001. “Optimal use of carbon sequestration in a
global climate strategy: Is there a wooden bridge to a clean energy future?”
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 2635 pp.27. Washington D.C.: World
Bank Development Research Group.
Appels, D. C., 2001. “Forest rotation lengths under carbon sequestration
payments,” Paper presented at the Conference of Economists. University of
Western Australia, Perth, September 24.
Plantinga, A. J., T. Mauldin, and D. J. Miller, 1999. “An econometric
analysis of the costs of sequestering carbon in forests,” American Journal
of Agricultural Economics. 81(4): 812-824.
Rabe, B. G., 2007. “Beyond Kyoto: Climate change policy in multilevel
governance systems,” Governance. 20(3): 423-444.
Böhringer, C., 2003. “The Kyoto Protocol: A review and perspectives,” Oxford
Review of Economic Policy, 19(3): 451-466.
Lecocq, F. and K. Chomitz, 2001. “Optimal use of carbon sequestration in a
global climate strategy: Is there a wooden bridge to a clean energy future?”
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 2635 pp.27. Washington D.C.: World
Bank Development Research Group.
Murray B. C., 2000. “Carbon values, reforestation, and perverse incentives
under the Kyoto Protocol: An empirical analysis,” Mitigation and Adaptation
Strategies for Global Change. 5(3): 271-295.
Kischbaum, M. U. F., 2000. “What contribution can tree plantations make
towards meeting Australia’s commitments under the Kyoto Protocol?”
Environmental Science Policy. 3: 83-90.
Rotter, J. and K. Danish, 2000. “Forest carbon and the Kyoto Protocol's Clean
Development Mechanism,”Journal of Forestry, 98(5): 38-47.
Lewandrowski, J., H. McDowell, R. R. House, and M. Peters, 2000. “Mitigation
greenhouse gas emission: implications of the Kyoto Protocol for U.S.
agriculture and U.S. agricultural policy,” World Resource Review. 12: 126-48.

評量方式
(僅供參考)

No.	項目	百分比	說明
1.	midterm exam	40%
2.	final exam	40%
3.	term paper	20%

課程進度

週次	日期	單元主題
第1週	9/18	Introduction
第2週	9/25	An Overview of Taiwan’s Agriculture
第3週	10/02	Deficiency Payment and Price Support Programs without Production Controls
第4週	10/09	Price Support Programs and Production Controls
第5週	10/16	Set- side Program
第6週	10/23	WTO New Round Agricultural Negotiations
第7週	10/30	Decoupled Payment
第8週	11/06	Field trip
第9週	11/13	Midterm exam
第10週	11/20	Microeconomic Policy Analysis
第11週	11/27	Agricultural Land Reform
第12週	12/04	Agricultural Land Policy Analysis and Policy Options
第13週	12/11	Zoning and Property Right
第14週	12/18	Forest Policy Analysis
第15週	12/25	Carbon Sequestration and Kyoto Protocol
第16週	1/01	New Year holiday
第17週	1/08	Presentations
第18週	1/15	final exam