Agricultural Policies in OECD Countries 2008
At a Glance

This book is a unique source of up-to-date estimates of support to agriculture. Separate chapters describe and evaluate agricultural policies in each OECD country, including such important developments as the introduction of the single-payment scheme in the EU. This edition also includes a special chapter describing the revised method of estimating support to agriculture used for the first time in this report. As always, it includes extensive statistical data on support to agriculture broken down by type of support and commodity, as well as Statlinks, URLs linking to Excel® spreadsheet versions of tables and graphs.
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Iceland
According to an agreement between the Government and the Farmers’ Association, which sets the framework of support to the dairy sector and has been effective since September 2005, annual payments to milk producers based on output have been gradually decreased and a new type of direct payment based on the number of animals is being introduced.
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