Agricultural programs & laws

Agricultural programs & laws

Of or pertaining to laws, political programs or schemes related to agriculture.

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Free stocks

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

Commodity stocks owned by farmers or others in the trade, rather than by those owned or controlled by the government. (Supplies in the Food Security Commodity Reserve are government-controlled and ...

Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA)

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

A proposed multilateral agreement that would establish free trade in all products, including agricultural products, for all the countries of the Western Hemisphere, except Cuba. Launched at the ...

Free Trade Area

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

A group of countries that have removed trade barriers among the members, but each country may maintain its own trade regime with nonmember countries. The best known current example is the North ...

Freedom-to-farm

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

A phrase that was used in the congressional arena to characterise the production flexibility contract provisions of the FAIR Act of 1996.

Four-firm ratio

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

It is common to express the degree of concentration within an industry, including agriculture (that is, the degree to which a few firms dominate sales or production) as a ratio, by stating the share ...

Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC)

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

A 1992 United Nations agreement in which signatory nations recognised the problem posed by climate change. They also agreed to the objective of stabilising greenhouse gases in the atmosphere at a ...

Free lunch (or breakfast, snack, or milk)

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

Refers to a federally subsidised meal (or snacks or half-pint of milk) that is offered under a child nutrition programme at no cost to children who apply for and whose family income qualifies them ...