The phrase "agricultural development policy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing strategies, regulations, or frameworks aimed at improving agricultural practices and productivity.
Example: "The government has introduced a new agricultural development policy to support farmers and enhance food security."
Alternatives: "farm development strategy" or "agriculture growth policy".
"Until the 1960s, India was successfully pursuing an agricultural development policy based on strengthening the ecological base of agriculture and the self-reliance of peasants," she writes in "The Violence of the Green Revolution".
Botswana represents a case study country that has focused agricultural development policy on communal land privatisation (Rohde et al. 2006; White 1993) and fencing linked to animal health policies (McGahey 2011).
The agricultural development strategy of the region which was derived from the national Agricultural Development Led Industrialization (ADLI) strategy formulated in 1993 (Dercon and Zeitlin 2009) was focused on the rehabilitation, conservation and development of natural resources, and is known as a conservation-based agricultural development policy (Berhanu et al. 2003).
But a specific programme also needs to be formulated with the aim of substituting alternative crops for narcotics through a specific agricultural development policy.
Many governments and donors promote contract farming as part of agricultural development policies.
In the worldwide within the context of the agricultural development policies some agricultural crops are qualified as specialty agricultural crops having important leading effects on (i) food security, (ii) livelihood security and (iii) agricultural and rural development.
The interactions in agricultural policy, land-tenure, demographic dynamics, and conservation policies with forest stability or decline suggested by this study shows the importance of carefully considering the undesirable effects of resettlement and agricultural development policies and the need to support community forest conservation that also benefits local people.
Of course, reliability of these data considerably depends on the economic (including agrarian and agricultural development) policies adopted in the country, land consolidation, stimulation of cooperative system of farming, development of industrial and social infrastructure in rural area and implementation of other projects.
The high spatial- and time-resolution study of the evolution of the physiognomy of the rural settlements proved useful to support the description, planning, and meta-design of rural settlements and to improve the definition of agricultural development policies and planning tools on the local scale.
Our main objectives were to understand the extent of forest cover changes through time, and to explore how deforestation rates correlate with (a) local changes in settlement, demographic conditions, and livelihood practices, and (b) broader changes in land-tenure and agricultural development policies in Ethiopia.
The Regional Conference: called upon FAO to continue supporting countries endeavors in reviewing and formulating their national agricultural development strategies, policies and plans of action and in the preparation of multilateral trade negotiations in agriculture.
