The significant diversity of EU rural areas in terms of population, natural resource endowments and socio-economic structures is likely to result in different impacts of policy changes and economic developments. This paper attempts to reveal how EU structural policy during 1989--1993 affected...

Agricultural and food policies have been stable in Finland for some years. Neither agriculture nor the food industry have needed to redefine strategies, but as EU accession changes the policy environment, strategies must also change. Strategies for the food industry are defined through a...

This article evaluates the efficacy of alternative supply control measures in the Finnish dairy market. The capability of measures to reduce excess supplies with the least losses to producers is illustrated by the surplus transformation model. With small income transfers, the prevailing quota...