Agriculture and Reform in Syria

How have recent economic reforms affected Syria's agricultural sector? Addressing this question, the authors give particular attention to the implications of the reforms for rural society.Contents:Preface—R. Hinnebusch.The Baath's Agrarian Revolution (1963-2000)—R. Hinnebusch.Syria's Agricultural Sector: Situation, Role, Challenges, and Prospects—A. El Hindi.Syrian Agriculture Between Reality and Potential—M. Khaddam.Agrarian Counter Reform in Syria (2000-2010)—M. Ababsa

A review of the national and international agro-food policies and institutions in the Mediterranean Region

This synthesized report aims at providing a comparative view of agricultural sectors and policies in the MPC, based on the individual country reports and expanding the gathered information. It offers an overall depiction of the whole MPC region under investigation and a comparative perspective, along with a summary of the key country characteristics. More in-depth, country-specific information should be sought within the country reports. In this sense, this report should be examined together with the individual country reports from which, country-related information have been extracted. References to the country reports are omitted for simplicity reasons, as it is defined that they constitute the basis of this report. In addition, and for the same reason, all references made within the country reports have been also omitted. Detailed reference sources can be found within the country reports. Any reference to additional sources, not referred to in the country reports, is explicitly mentioned. In Annex II, following the Mediterranean Partner Countries’ reports, a report entitled “Euro- Mediterranean policy and other ongoing processes and their main impact on Mediterranean Partner Countries” is given, in which the relations between the EU and the MPC under the framework of the Euro-Mediterranean partnership (i.e. Barcelona process) are analysed