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Key stakeholders in the common agricultural policy: farmers' economic well-being, attitudes, and environmental behavior

Bethge, Sabrina - 2023

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) shapes the agri-food sector of the European Union (EU) by mainly regulating the distribution of financial support to agricultural producers. Based on the Treaty of Rome (1957), one of the CAP's objectives is to "ensure a fair living standard for farm-ers" by...

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Off-farm income and direct payments : an indispensable diversification strategy of Swiss farmers

El Benni, Nadja; Schmid, Dierk - In: Q open : a journal of agricultural, climate, … 2 (2022) 1, pp. 1-24

Following the theory of a farm household model, the relations between farm and farmer characteristics, including two different kinds of direct payments, and their effects on the off-farm labour allocation decisions of farm operators were analysed. Swiss farm accountancy data network (FADN) data...

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Direct payments between income support and public goods

Frascarelli, Angelo - In: Italian review of agricultural economics 75 (2020) 3, pp. 25-32

Direct payments maintain a fundamental role in the future CAP, since they still absorb a high share of the CAP budget. However, despite some confirmations (mainly related to internal convergence, types of interventions and the role of genuine/active farmers), several relevant innovations (e.g.,...

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Examining disparities in common agriculture policy direct payments among farming systems : evidence from Portugal

Dinis, Isabel - In: Agricultural and Food Economics : AFE 12 (2024) 1, pp. 1-23

One of the stated goals of the common agricultural policy reforms has been to provide a fairer distribution of payments across and within member states, but little progress has been accomplished, with about 20% of farmers receiving 80% of the total amount of direct payments. This research aims...

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Direct payments and on-farm employment : evidence from a spatial regression discontinuity design

Zimmert, Franziska; Zorn, Alexander - In: Q open : a journal of agricultural, climate, … 3 (2023) 3, pp. 1-23

Direct payments are regarded as a suitable instrument to safeguard jobs in the agricultural sector. However, empirical findings to date do not unambiguously support this expectation. We further empirically investigate this research question on dairy farms with a focus on family work. Using a...

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Reducing feed-food competition with direct payments? : an ex-ante assessment of economic and environmental impacts

Bystricky, Maria; Bretscher, Daniel; Schori, Fredy; … - In: Q open : a journal of agricultural, climate, … 3 (2023) 3, pp. 1-25

Worldwide, feed-food competition for arable land is of rising concern. Swiss agricultural policy wants to promote grass-based cattle feeding through a voluntary direct payment program that is currently being revised. The current version of the program requires a minimum share of 75-85 per cent...

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Targeting the redistributive payment in selected new European Union member states

Sadłowski, Adrian - In: Journal of business economics and management 23 (2022) 2, pp. 327-342

The most important element in the recent reform of the Common Agricultural Policy, which is intended to reduce the concentration of aid distributed under the direct support system, is the so-called redistributive payment. The redistributive effects of this instrument depend on its specific form...

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The contribution of research to agricultural policy in Europe : BAE 10th anniversary paper

Matthews, Alan - In: Bio-based and applied economics 10 (2021) 3, pp. 185-205

This paper surveys some of the key themes in European agricultural policy research in recent decades. It identifies three main drivers of this research: a gradual broadening of the scope of the discipline in response to changing political priorities and values; an enlarged toolbox of policy...

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People, places and policy : knowing contemporary Wales through new localities

Jones, Martin (ed.); Orford, Scott (ed.); … - 2016

contemporary Wales. Combining policy research with policy-maker and stakeholder interviews at various spatial scales (local … geography of Wales. This book looks at the economic, social and political geographies of Wales, which in the context of …) - are discussed in detail to illustrate this and also reveal the geographical tensions of devolution in contemporary Wales …

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Contrasting housing supply in Ireland, Northern Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom

Disch, Wendy; Egan, Paul; Kenny, Eoin; McQuinn, Kieran - 2024

This report examines the Irish, Northern Irish, Welsh, Scottish, and English residential markets with a particular focus on their capacity to increase housing supply over the short to medium term. Our approach compares and contrasts how differences across the housing markets, in key costs of...

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