ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the principal ways in which the government intervenes in the agricultural sector in terms of the typology outlined in Chapter 2. It presents an overview of all the main interventionist policies over which the MAFF presides, as well as appropriate examples of direct market intervention, regulatory intervention and allocatory intervention. It then outlines the architecture of agricultural intervention, detailing the legal, financial, institutional and more informal structures and practices used by the MAFF to intervene in agriculture and in associated industries.
