The key to good policy analysis is asking the right questions about existing or proposed policies. This book explains how to analyze agricultural and natural-resource policy with particular emphasis on Australia.

This text should be valuable to students studying policy analysis in agriculture, economics, commerce, and business courses. It should also be an important reference for anyone interested in agriculture and natural resources.

Introduction. Part 1 - Policy Analysis Framework. 1: Governing the Farm: economic efficiency foundations. 2: Farming the Government?: economic analyses of the policy process. 3: Cultivating Power: institutions of Australian agricultural and resource policy. Part II - Intrasectoral Issues: Input and Product Markets. 4: Farm inputs - water and externalities. 5: Research and Development. 6: Agricultural Marketing: general issues. 7: Agricultural marketing Policy - case studies: wheat, wool, sugar. 8: Marketing Issues- value adding and food safety. Part III - Intrasectoral Issues: Structural Change. 9: Structural Adjustment - European farming. 10: Structural Adjustment-Aborigines in the rural sector. 11: Rural Services. Part IV - Intersectoral Issues. 12: Agriculture in an Economy-Wide Context. 13: Differential Sectoral Rates of Protection. 14: Microeconomic Reform