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Changing agricultural policies in the Mediterranean region [Editorial]

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The articles in this issue of NEW MEDIT illustrate the many changes currently affecting agricultural policies in the Mediter-ranean region: new policies are debated, some important policy changes have been decided and some have begun to be implemented. Perhaps even more striking, all parts of the region-North and South, East and West-are involved in those changes in spite of the many profound differences among the various a-gricultures of the region. To summarize, at the risk of oversimplifying: the centrality of trade liberalization which played a critical role in recent debates and policy reforms seems to be waning. Other issues and concerns, some of which had often been important in the past, seem to be coming back or to emerge as central. The main purpose of this introduction is to highlight the main common elements in those changes and to explore why they are happening now. We will first review the central role played until recently by the debates and decisions regarding trade liberalization, over a long period of twenty to thirty years, and then shift to the recent emphasis on other concerns. This will permit us to strike a note of caution: the recent shift of emphasis has many advantages, notably because it brings back to the fore the importance of such critical long term issues as the plight of the rural poor in many countries or the need to conserve fragile natural resources but it also carries the risk of forgetting the high costs, economic and social, of ignoring the signals which markets can provide.

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M. Petit. Changing agricultural policies in the Mediterranean region [Editorial]. New Medit, 2012, 11 (2), pp.2-3. ⟨hal-02178746⟩

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