Abbreviations and acronyms
AAFC
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
ABC plan
Low carbon Emissions Agriculture plan (Brazil)
ACC
Agricultural Credit Cooperatives (Turkey)
ACCC
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
ACEP
Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (United States)
ADR
Rural Development Agency (Colombia)
AGF
Direct Government Purchases (Brazil)
AIS
Agriculture Innovation System
AMIS
Agricultural Market Information System
AMS
Aggregate Measurement of Support
ANC
Areas of Natural Constraints (European Union)
ANT
National Land Agency (Colombia)
APEC
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
APL-s
Sustainable Production Agreements (Chile)
APP
Advance Payments Program (Canada)
ARC
Agriculture Risk Coverage (United States)
SEAN
Association of South East Asian Nations
BBA
Bipartisan Budget Act (United States)
BPS
Basic Payment Scheme (European Union)
BRM
Business Risk Management (Canada)
CAP
Canadian Agricultural Partnership
CAP
Common Agricultural Policy (of the European Union)
CASP
Common Agricultural Support Programme (South Africa)
CEPA
Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement
CETA
Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement
CFIA
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency
CGCS
Cotton Ginning Cost Share programme (United States)
CIIL
Crown Irrigation Investments Limited (New Zealand)
CO2
Carbon dioxide
COMESA
Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
CONAB
National Food Supply Agency (Brazil)
CPI
Consumer Price Index
CPTPP
Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership
CRDP
Comprehensive Rural Development Programme (South Africa)
CRP
Conservation Reserve Program (United States)
CSP
Conservation Stewardship program (United States)
DAFF
Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (South Africa)
DCFTA
Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (Ukraine, EU)
DFIP
Dairy Farm Investment Program (Canada)
DIRA
Dairy Industry Restructuring Act of 2001 (New Zealand)
DP
Direct Payments
DPDP
Dairy Product Donation Program (United States)
DPIF
Dairy Processing Investment Fund (Canada)
DRDLR
Department of Rural Development and Land Reform (South Africa)
EAEU
Eurasian Economic Union (Kazakhstan, Russia)
EAFRD
European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development
EAGF
European Agricultural Guarantee Fund
EEA
European Economic Area
EFAs
Ecological Focus Areas (European Union)
EEC
European Economic Community
EFP
Environmental Farm Plans (Canada)
EFTA
European Free Trade Association
EPA
Economic Partnership Agreement
EQIP
Environmental Quality Incentive Program (United States)
ERF
Emission Reduction Fund (Australia)
ETS
Emissions trading scheme (New Zealand)
EU
European Union
FAO
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
FCC
State agency Food Contract Corporation (Kazakhstan)
FDA
Food and Drugs Administration (United States)
FDI
Foreign Direct Investment
FEP
Commodity Price Stabilisation Fund (Colombia)
FINAGRO
Financing Fund for the Agricultural Sector (Colombia)
FMD
Foot and Mouth Disease
FMD
Farm Management Deposit (Australia)
FPT
Joint Federal, Provincial and Territorial agreements (Canada)
FSA
USDA Farm Service Agency (United States)
FTA
Free Trade Agreement
FY
Financial (fiscal) year
GAEC
Good Agricultural and Environmental Conditions (European Union)
GAO
Gross Agricultural Output
GATT
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
GDP
Gross Domestic Product
GF2
Growing Forward 2 (Canada – new multilateral agricultural policy framework)
GHG
Greenhouse Gases
GIA
Government Industry Agreements on Biosecurity Readiness and Response (NZL)
GRA
Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (New Zealand)
GSP
Generalised System of Preferences
IFSS
Integrated Food Security Strategy (South Africa)
IHS
Import Health Standards (New Zealand)
IMF
International Monetary Fund
INDAP
National Institute for Agricultural Development (Chile)
IPARD (I,II)
Instruments for Pre-Accession Assistance for Rural Development (Turkey)
LDC
Least Developed Countries
LEADER
Links Between Actions for the Development of the Rural Economy (EU)
LFA
Less Favoured Areas
LRAD
Land Redistribution and Agricultural Development (South Africa)
MAFISA
Micro-Agricultural Financial Institutions of South Africa
MADR
Ministry of Agriculture (Colombia)
MAG
Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (Costa Rica)
MARD
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
MAPA
Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply (Brazil)
MAPIP
Māori Agribusiness: Pathway to Increased Productivity (New Zealand)
MAV
Minimum access volume
MDA
Secretariat for Family Agriculture and Agrarian Development (Brazil)
MERCOSUR
Southern Common Market
MEP
Minimum Export Price (Viet Nam)
MFN
Most Favoured Nation
MMA
Minimum market access
MOU
Memorandum of Understanding
MoFAL
Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock (Turkey)
MPP
Margin Protection Programme (for dairy producers) (United States)
MY
Marketing year
NAFTA
North American Free Trade Agreement
NAMC
National Agricultural Marketing Council (South Africa)
NDC
Nationally Determined Contribution
NAP Ag
National Adaptation Plan in Agriculture (Viet Nam)
NDRC
National Development and Reform Commission (China)
NIA
National Irrigation Administration (Philippines)
NFA
National Food Authority (Philippines)
NFRS
National Farmer Registration System (Turkey)
NLP
National Land Care programme (South Africa)
NPF
Next Agricultural Policy Framework (Canada)
NRCS
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (United States)
NTMs
Non-tariff measures
ODEPA
Office of Studies and Agrarian Policies of the Ministry of Agriculture (Chile)
OECD
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
OPEC
Organisation of Petroleum Export Countries
PAA
Government purchases from small-scale agriculture (Brazil)
PCF
Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change
PEM
Policy Evaluation Model
PEP
Product Reward Prize programme (Brazil)
PEPRO
Rural Equity Prize programme (Brazil)
PGPAF
Minimum price programme for family farms (Brazil)
PGP
Primary Growth Partnership (New Zealand)
PLC
Price Loss Coverage (United States)
PPP
Purchasing Power Parity
PRAN
National Agriculture Revitalisation Programme (Colombia)
PROAGRO
General Agriculture Insurance Programme (Brazil)
PROCAMPO
Programme providing payments based on historical areas (Mexico)
Productive PROAGRO
Programme providing payments based on historical areas, replacing PROCAMPO (Mexico)
PROGAN
Programme providing payments based on livestock numbers (Mexico)
QR
Quantitative restrictions
R&D
Research and Development
RDCs
Rural Research and Development Corporations (Australia)
RDP
Rural Development Plan (Programme)
REID
Rural Enterprise and Industrial Development programme (South Africa)
REP
Regional Environmental Programmes (Norway)
RID
Rural Infrastructure Development programme (South Africa)
RMA
Resource Management Act 1991 (New Zealand)
RMA
USDA Risk Management Agency (United States)
SACU
South African Customs Union
SADC
Southern African Development Community
SAFP
Andean Price Band System (Colombia)
SAGARPA
The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food (Mexico)
SAPARD
Special Accession Programme for Agriculture and Rural Development (EU)
SAPS
Single Area Payment Scheme (European Union)
SCO
Supplementary Coverage Option (United States)
SDR
Special Drawing Rights, IMF
SENARA
National Irrigation and Drainage Service institution (Costa Rica)
SFF
Sustainable Farming Fund (New Zealand)
SGA
State Grain Administration (China)
SINOGRAIN
China Grain Reserves Corporation
SNAP
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (United States)
SPS
Single Payment Scheme (European Union)
SPS
Sanitary and Phytosanitary
SSG
Special Safeguard
STAX
Stacked Income Protection Plan (United States)
STE
State Trading Enterprise
TBT
Technical Barriers to Trade
TCZB
Ziraat Bank (Turkey)
TDCA
Trade, Development and Co-operation Agreement
TFP
Total Factor Productivity
TNA
Transitional National Aid (European Union)
TPP
Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
TRQ
Tariff Rate Quota
TTIP
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (EU, US)
UN
United Nations
UNFCCC
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
URAA
Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture
USA
United States of America
USDA
United States Department of Agriculture
VAT
Value Added Tax
VCS
Voluntary Coupled Support (European Union)
WTO
World Trade Organization
ZARC
Agricultural Climate Risk Zoning (Brazil)