{"id":11499,"date":"2023-03-23T00:12:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T16:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/?p=11499"},"modified":"2023-04-20T00:43:46","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T16:43:46","slug":"academia-sinica-announces-its-agricultural-policy-recommendations-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/11499\/","title":{"rendered":"Academia Sinica Announces its Agricultural Policy Recommendations 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"
Taiwan was once an agricultural-based country. However, over time, agriculture has faced challenges such as an aging workforce, lack of small farm development, increased global competition, and climate change. To explore Taiwan’s agricultural problems and propose policy recommendations, Academia Sinica released on March 16 its white paper, Agricultural Policy Recommendations 2.0. Building on the 2013 Agricultural Policy and Technology Research Recommendations, Policy Recommendations 2.0 reassessed several issues, including land use, agricultural food industries, agricultural technology, ecological protection, education, healthcare, finance, and workforce. It seeks to revitalize the existing policy framework with innovative proposals to build a sustainable foundation for the development of rural areas.<\/p>\n
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According to the white paper, Taiwan’s agricultural development faces long-term structural difficulties. After rethinking fundamental policy issues, eight major policies are proposed:<\/p>\n
The recommendations committee consists of members from different professional backgrounds, including the humanities, social sciences, and agricultural biotechnology. Based on the previous Agricultural Policy and Technology Research Recommendations, the group has spent years planning, discussing, and visiting local experts and practitioners in the agricultural industry. With a bottom-up approach, these policy recommendations start from the living aspects of the current rural areas in Taiwan, reviews the impact of past policies, and discusses specific problems rural areas face. From a scientific viewpoint, the production and ecological aspects were included to depict a more comprehensive vision of rural development.<\/p>\n
In constructing committees to deliberate key scientific and technological issues, as well as their social impacts, Academicians and experts in related fields are selected to provide input. The findings are published as policy recommendations for the government. From an academic perspective, innovative and disruptive ideas were provided to assist government policy-making and strategy implementation.<\/p>\n