1. Market and Trade Policies for Mediterranean Agriculture:
The case of fruit/vegetable and olive oil
PROGRESS PRESENTATION
TITLE

2. LIST OF PARTICIPANTS Partic. Role* no. Participant name Participant
short name
Country CO P1
Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania
(MAICh) /CIHEAM
GREECE CR P2
Centro de Investigacion en Economia y Desarrollo Agroalimentarios
(CREDA)
SPAIN P3
Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet
(SLU)
SWEDEN P4
Institut fur Agrarpolitik und Marktforschung,Universitaet Giessen
(IAM / JLU)
GERMANY P5
Wageningen University, Dept of Social Sciences, Marketing & Consumer Behaviour Group
(Wageningen UR) NL

3. LIST OF PARTICIPANTS Partic. Role* no. Participant name Participant
short name
Country CR P6
Agricultural Research Institute
(ARI)
CYPRUS P7
Ege University, Faculty of Agriculture, Dept. of Agricultural Economics
(EUZF)
TURKEY P8
National School of Agriculture
(ENA- MEKNES)
MOROCCO P9
Laboratoire de Recherches en Economie Rurale, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique de Tunisie
(INRAT)
TUNISIA

4. PROJECT PHASES Phase I: DATA COLLECTION (Completed)
DESCRIPTIVE COUNTRY REPORTS (completed)
Phase II:
CONSTRUCTION AND APPLICATION OF MODELS (on going)
Phase III:
CONCLUDING REPORT
POLICY IMPLICATIONS SUMMARY
Phase IV:
DIFFUSION OF RESULTS AND MAJOR FINDINGS OF THE ANALYSIS (on going)

5. GANTT DIAGRAM

6. REVISED GANTT DIAGRAM

7. REVISED WP and Deliverables table

8. WP 1 15th October 2004 (GM2) E-Meetings
MEDFROL web-site (
15th October 2004 (GM2)
21st October 2004
4th November 2004
11th November 2004
13-14th November 2004 (GM3)
15th December 2004
12th January 2005
28th January 2005
16th February 2005
1st March 2005
20th March 2005
10th April 2005
Files – updated regularly (weekly)

9. The main reasons to justify the extension request are:
To overcome the impediments related with the insufficient data obtained for the WP1 deliverables, mainly as far as certain countries are concerned (Palestine, Libya, etc).
To give more time to partners involved in both WP1 and WP3, that are interdependent.
To take full advantage of the 3rd MEDFROL meeting planned for the 21st to 24th July, 2005 in Giessen, Germany, where the deliverables D19 - D20 will be presented and discussed.
Collaboration with EU Med AGPol proramme

11. Development of data bases for WP1 activities
Sources
Data collected
UNCTAD-ITC (MACMAPS)
Ad valorem Tariff equivalents
WORLD BANK (Development indicators)
Variables ranging from the economy to people and the environment
FAOSTAT
Output value of agricultural commodities, agricultural population and land constraints
UNIDO
Information on trade, employment, wages and value added for processed fruit and vegetables as well as for vegetables
UNCTAD-ITC
ITC has been used to calculate trade performance indicators for vegetables (HS 07), fresh fruits (HS 08), and for additional products on an HS4 and HS6- digit level.
UNDP
Human development index and also other variables dealing with the structure of the economy.
IMF
Government finance statistics
USDA-ERS
Notifications of support to agriculture
WTO
Trade statistics and notifications of support to agriculture
National sources
Use for additional data not found elsewhere

12. Internal deliverables
List of data bases developed of WP1 activities
Databases
Internal deliverables
Use data bases in WP1
Title
Content
Economic, environmental and other indicators
Demographics
Economy
Global links
States and markets
Human resources
Series of data files accessible on the MEDFROL homepage
NAPR report activities
Structure of the fruit, vegetable and fats and oils sectors
Trade
Employment
Value added
Wages
ASR report activities
Agricultural sectors and water
Agricultural population
Distribution of land
Land constraints
Water resources and use
Irrigation
Structure of agricultural production
Output values of agricultural commodities
datafiles directly provided to the MEDFROL partners
Applied rates
Applied tariffs (MFN)
data file accessible on the MEDFROL homepage
Rates of protection
Bilateral tariff equivalent rates for fruits, vegetables, olive oil and processed fruits and vegetables
data files directly provided to the MEDFROL partners
Trade performance indicators
Set of performance indicators developed for fresh fruits and fresh vegetables

13. DELIVERABLES – National Agricultural Policies Reports (NAPR)
Near Completion
DELIVERABLES – National Agricultural Policies Reports (NAPR)
D2 National agricultural policies report for Cyprus, Israel, Lebanon, Malta
D3 National agricultural policies report for Turkey, Syria, Jordan
D4 National agricultural policies report for Morocco, Libya, Algeria
D5 National agricultural policies report for Tunisia, Gaza Strip, Egypt D2
Cyprus
Malta
Israel
Lebanon D3
Turkey
Syria
Jordan D4
Morocco*
Libya*
Algeria* D5
Tunisia
Egypt
Gaza Strip P6 P7 P8 P9
*Also in French
Delivered
Final corrections

14. DELIVERABLES – Agricultural Situation Reports
D7 Agricultural situation report with particular emphasis on fruit and vegetables and olive oil for Cyprus, Israel, Lebanon, Malta (in progress*)
D8 Agricultural situation report with particular emphasis on fruit and vegetables and olive oil for Turkey, Syria, Jordan (in progress*)
D9 Agricultural situation report with particular emphasis on fruit and vegetables and olive oil for Morocco, Libya, Algeria (in progress*)
D10 Agricultural situation report with particular emphasis on fruit and vegetables and olive oil for Tunisia, Gaza Strip, Egypt (in progress*)
D11 Agricultural situation report with particular emphasis on fruit and vegetables and olive oil for Spain (extended Draft is available)
D12 Agricultural situation report with particular emphasis on fruit and vegetables and olive oil for Greece (extended Draft is available)
* Expected completion before 15th of July

15. ASR guidelines
1 – Introduction (One page maximum)
2 – Natural conditions and land use (two pages maximum)
2.1 – Land resource potential and constraints
2.2 – water resource constraints
2.3 - land and water use
3 - Performance of the agricultural sector (seven pages maximum)
3.1 – Introduction: 3.2- Products
3.2- Intermediate inputs
3.3 - Machinery and equipment
3.4 - Water use:
3.5 - Labour force and employment in agriculture
3.6 – Price and incomes
4 - Upstream and downstream sectors. (2 pages)
4.1 -Upstream sectors
4.2 - Food processing sectors.
5 - Food consumption (1 page maximum)
6 – Trade in agri-food products (three pages maximum)
6.1 - Structure of trade in agri-food products
6.2 - Trade Performance in agri-food products
6.3 - Trade Performance: fruits, vegetable and olive oil
7 – International Competitiveness of the Mediterranean fruits, vegetables and olive oil sectors (two pages maximum)
NAPR guidelines
1 - General setting (1 or two pages)
Macro economy
Place of agriculture in the national economy:
National economy and the World economy:
2- Agricultural and food policies (12 or 13 pages)
2.1 – General setting
2.2 – Price and income support
2.3 - Agricultural trade policy measures
2.4 – Measures affecting input use (reduction)
2.5 – Infrastructure policies
2.6 – Rural development policies
2. 7 –Agro-environmental measures
2.8 - Measures affecting consumer
2.9 - Social measures
2.10- Budgetary outlays associated to agricultural and food policies
3 - Assessing “rate of assistance” to agriculture (3 or 4 pages)
3.1 -General indicators
3.2 -“Rate of assistance” to imported agricultural products other than fruits, vegetables and olive oil
3-3 -“Rates of assistance” for fruits, vegetable and olive oil sectors
4- Concluding remarks (1 page or two)
Appendix

16. WP 2 (P5)
Meeting between P4 and P5 on Monday 18th October 2004
Outline for D17- D18 (The supply chain of fruits and vegetables/olive oil for Germany and NL)
Part one - Market situation / The demand side
Part two - The supply side
Part three - Overall institutional structure and trends
*(all relevant data will cover the period on a yearly basis)
Analytical aspect
Business interviews
Measurement of competitiveness
Consumer interviews

17. DELIVERABLES – Description of the supply chain
D17 Description of the supply chain for fruit and vegetables in the EU (Germany, Netherlands) (Completed)
D18 Description of the supply chain for olive oil in the EU (Germany, Netherlands) (expected completion on June 5th )
D19 An executive summary describing the productivity and efficiency model to be applied (expected completion on December 2005)
D20 An executive summary describing the import demand analysis model to be applied (expected completion on December 2005)

18. WP 3 and 4 (P1 and P2)
Modification
WP 3 and 4 complementary WPs
P2: coordinator for both WP 3 and 4
Close cooperation of P1