課程資訊
課程名稱
 農業政策分析
Agricultural Policy Analysis 
開課學期
 102-2 
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
 3 
全/半年
 半年 
必/選修
 必修 
上課時間
 星期四6,7,8(13:20~16:20) 
上課地點
 一樓研討室 
備註
 限「國際農業政策發展與管理」碩士班。
限國際學生
總人數上限：7人 
  
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課程概述

The 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 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 course will seek the right balance among description of program details, modeling program effects, and reviewing relevant policy researches. 
課程要求
 The course 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.
30% midterm exam, 20% homework, 30% final exam, 20% term paper 
預期每週課後學習時數
  
Office Hours
 每週四 09:00~12:00 
指定閱讀
 Acemoglu, Daron and James Robinson, 2012, Why Nations fail : the Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty, Crown Publisher.
Stiglitz, Joseph E., 2012, The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers Our Future, W. W. Norton & Co Inc.
Banerjee, A., Roland Benabou and Dilip Mookherjee, eds., 2006, Understanding Poverty, Oxford University Press.
Patel Raj, 2008, Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World Food System，Melville House.
 
參考書目
 Burfisher, M. E., 2003, Agricultural Policy Reform in the WTO, New York: Nova Science.
COA, 2008, Chen Wu-Hsiung Has a Vision of Toxin-free Taiwan. http://eng.coa.gov.tw/content_print.php?catid=18356
COA, 2008, COA Promotes Small Landlords and Big Tenant-Farmers Project: To Improve the Farm Land Use as well as Adjust Production Structure the Agricultural Production. http://eng.coa.gov.tw/content_print.php?catid=18470
COA, 2008, Guidelines of Agricultural Policies: Establish a Healthy, Efficient and Sustainable Agriculture for All the Citizens. http://eng.coa.gov.tw/content_view.php?catid=17999&hot_new=8799
Cornia, G. C. and J. Riddell, 2008, Toward a Vision of Land in 2015, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Fischel, W. A., 1987,The Economics of Zoning Laws, A Property Rights Approach to American Land Use Controls, John Hopkins University Press.
Friedman, L. S., 1986, Microeconomic Policy Analysis, New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc.
Grant, W. P. and J. T. S. Keeler, 2000, Agricultural Policy, US: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Greer, A., 2005. Agricultural Policy in Europe, New York: Manchester University Press.
Helmberger, Peter G., 1992. Economic Analysis of Farm Programs, New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc.
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, B., and D. Y. Kim, 1993. Land policy Problems in East Asia-toward New Choices, East West Center and Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements.
Lynggaard, K., 2006. The Common Agricultural Policy and Organic Farming, Wallingford, UK; Cambridge, MA.
McCalla, A. F., G. Anania, M. E. Bohman, and C. A. Carter, 2004. Agricultural Policy Reform and the WTO: Where are We Heading? MA: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Mulgan, A. G., 2006. Japan's Agricultural Policy Regime, New York: Routledge.
OECD, 2005, Agriculture and Development: The Case for Policy Coherence, Paris: OECD.
OECD, 2006. Agricultural Policy and Trade Reform: The Impact on World Commodity Markets, Paris: OECD.
OECD, 2007. Agricultural Policies in Non-OECD Countries Monitoring and Evaluation 2007, Paris: OECD.
OECD, 2008. Agricultural Policies in OECD Countries 2008: At a Glance, Paris: OECD.
OECD, 2009. Agricultural Policies in OECD Countries 2009: Monitoring and Evaluation, Paris: OECD.
Peter G. and J. P. Chavas, 1996. The Economics of Agricultural Prices, Prentice Hall, Inc.
Schmitz, A., H. Furtan, and K. Baylis, 2002. Agricultural Policy, Agribusiness, and Rent-seeking Behavior, Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Tietenberg, Tom, 2005. Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Addison Wesley Longman, Reading, Massachusetts.
Tweeten, L. and S. R. Thompson, 2002. Agricultural Policy for the Twenty-first Century, Iowa: Iowa State University Press.
Reading List:
Böhringer, C., 2003. “The Kyoto Protocol: A Review and Perspectives,” Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 19(3): 451-466.
Bromley, Daniel, W., 2009, Formalizing Property Relations in the Developing World: The Wrong Prescription for the Wrong Malady, Land Use Policy, 26(1): 20-27.
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 4 Direct Payment and Price Support programs without Production Controls. Helmberger, Peter G., 1992, Economic Analysis of Farm Programs, McGraw-Hill, Inc. pp.79-100.
Chapter 5 Agricultural Policies from the late 1990s, Mulgan, A. G., 2006, Japan's Agricultural Policy Regime, Routledge. pp.104-183.
Chapter 7 Price Support programs and Production Controls. Helmberger, Peter G., 1992, Economic Analysis of Farm Programs, McGraw-Hill, Inc. pp.169-190.
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.
Chapter 8 Farm programs that Idle Land. Helmberger, Peter G., 1992, Economic Analysis of Farm Programs, McGraw-Hill, Inc. pp.191-236.
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.
Ho, P., and M. Spoor, 2006. Whose Land? The Political Economy of Land Titling in Transitional Economies, Land Use Policy, 23(4): 580-587.
Koppel, B., 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.
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.
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.
Lin, Kuo-Ching, 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.
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.
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.
Murray, B. C., 2003. “Economics of Forest Carbon Sequestration,” Forests in a Market Economy. Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp.221-238.
Nishida, Y., 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.
O'Laughlin J., 2004. “Policy Analysis Framework for Sustainable Forestry: National Forest Case Study,” Journal of Forestry, 102(2): 34-41.
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.
Ravindranath, N. and B. Somashekhar, 1995. “Potential and Economics of Forestry Options for Carbon Sequestration in India,” Biomass Bioenergy, 8(5): 323-336.
Riddell, J., 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.
Rotter, J. and K. Danish, 2000. “Forest Carbon and the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism,” Journal of Forestry, 98(5): 38-47.
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.
Sjaastad, E. and B. Cousins, 2009. Formalization of Land Rights in the South: An Overview, Land Use Policy, 26(1): 1-9.
Smith, P., 2004. “Carbon Sequestration in Croplands: the Potential in Europe and the Global Context,” European Journal of Agronomy, 20(3): 229-236
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.
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.
 
評量方式
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No.
項目
百分比
說明
1. 
 midterm exam 
30% 
  
2. 
 final exan 
30% 
  
3. 
 term paper 
20% 
  
4. 
 home work and class participation 
20% 
  
 
課程進度
週次
日期
單元主題
第1週
 2/20  Introduction 
第2週
 2/27  Taiwan’s Agricultural Development 
第3週
 3/06  Taiwan’s Agricultural Policy 
第4週
 3/13  Agricultural Policy in OECD 
第5週
 3/20  Microeconomic Policy Analysis 
第6週
 3/27  Food Security and Food Policy(I) 
第8週
 4/10  Food Security and Food Policy(II) 
第9週
 4/17  Agricultural Land Reform 
第10週
 4/24  Agricultural Land Policy Analysis and Policy Options 
第11週
 5/01  Midterm Exam 
第12週
 5/08  Field Trip 
第13週
 5/15  Property Right and Institutional Reform 
第14週
 5/22  The Price of Inequality 
第15週
 5/29  Understand Poverty 
第16週
 6/05  Paper Presentations(I) 
第17週
 6/12  Paper Presentations(II) 
第18週
 6/19  Final Exam