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Intro -- FEDERAL CROP INSURANCE: ELEMENTS AND PROPOSALS -- FEDERAL CROP INSURANCE: ELEMENTS AND PROPOSALS -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 FEDERAL CROP INSURANCE:BACKGROUND AND ISSUES -- SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- CROP INSURANCE HISTORY -- PROGRAM BASICS -- Types of Insurance -- Yield-Based Insurance -- Revenue-Based Insurance -- Whole Farm Insurance -- Crop Insurance Premium Subsidies -- Geographic Distribution of Program Participation and Indemnities -- Distribution of Producer Subsidies -- FEDERAL PROGRAM COSTS -- PRIVATE COMPANY REIMBURSEMENT AND RISK SHARING -- Standard Reinsurance Agreement (SRA) -- Trends in A&O Reimbursement and Underwriting Gains -- INTERSECTION WITH OTHER GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS -- FARMER CONCERNS WITH CROP INSURANCE -- Rice Policies -- Trend Yields -- More Affordable Premiums -- Nursery Products -- "Shallow" Losses and Other Concerns -- PROPOSALS FOR THE NEXT FARM BILL -- Proposals for Enhanced Crop Insurance American Farm Bureau Federation -- Stacked Income Protection Plan or STAX (National Cotton Council) -- Crop Risk Options Plan or CROP (Representative Neugebauer) -- Farm Financial Safety Net (Crop Insurance Company) -- Proposals for Whole Farm Insurance -- REFRESH Act of 2011 (Senator Lugar and Representative Stutzman) -- Local Farms, Food, and Jobs Act (Representative Pingreeand Senator Brown) -- ADDITIONAL ISSUES FOR THE NEXT FARM BILL -- Program Overlap -- Potential Linkage with Conservation Compliance -- Budget Savings -- CONCLUDING COMMENTS -- End Notes -- Chapter 2 CROP INSURANCE: SAVINGS WOULD RESULT FROM PROGRAM CHANGES AND GREATER USE OF DATA MINING -- ABBREVIATIONS -- WHY GAO DID THIS STUDY -- WHAT GAO RECOMMENDS -- WHAT GAO FOUND -- Background -- Costs of Crop Insurance Subsidies That Benefit Farmers -- Crop Insurance Participation and DisasterAssistance Payments

Thailand has depleted much of its own timber, minerals and fish and is unable to meet its gas and petroleum demands through domestic production. Beginning with the government of Chatichai Choonahavan, this country has sought increasingly to improve relations with Indochina and Myanmar. This policy has been motivated predominantly by economic considerations, in particular access to natural resources. The authors explore the fisheries and offshore hydrocarbon sectors in the context of Thailand's resource diplomacy. (DÜI-Sen)

Are there connections between the structures of political systems and types of scientific advice to policymak - ing? This volume unites case studies from the Netherlands, France, the European Union and the USA that provide an overview of different institutional arrangements, focusing on issues such as the independence and balance of advice. Common to all is the question which forms of advice can increase the rationality of policymaking without loss of political legitimacy.

From the Contents:

Mark B. Brown: Federal Advisory Committees in the United States
Paul den Hoed and Anne-Greet Keizer: The Scientific Council for Government Policy
David Demortain: Designing Regulatory Tools for Pharmaceutical and Food Safety in the European Union
Laurent Geffroy, Odile Piriou and Bénédicte Zimmermann: Scientific Expertise in Policy-Making: The Case of Work Policy in France
Willem Halffman: The Dutch ''Planning Bureaus''