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This paper investigates how different off-farm income sources and CAP direct payments affect income inequality among farm households. It uses the Gini coefficient and its decomposition on the whole sample of FADN individual farms of Italy in 2011. CAP direct payments and the overall off-farm...
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This paper analyses the impact of a set of direct payment tools of the Common Agricultural Policy on the distribution of household income among Italian farm families. It considers a large sample of Italian farm families and applies the Gini decomposition approach. The analysis accounts for...
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In this paper the level of taxation of Italian farm households is studied by analyzing the data of agricultural households in the Italian EU-SILC database. The proposed approach allows to use the EU- SILC database to fill missing information on FADN database through a methodology of statistical...
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Farm direct payments (DPs) have been the main instrument of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to support farm income in the EU. This paper addresses the role of direct payments granted in the context of the market and income support policies and of rural development policies in the...
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Direct payments are the main instrument of support to farm incomes in the European Union. After their decoupling from production, the redistributive goal has become a major political justification for maintaining this support tool. This paper analyzes the role of direct payments in the formation...
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Replaced with revised version of paper 02/22/08.
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This paper evaluates the possible consequences of decreasing in the amount of water provided by the irrigation board to the farms, and increasing in the unitary water charges that the irrigation board applies to the farms. The study has been conducted in a Mediterranean region of southern Italy...
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The way entitlements are originally allocated among farmers and some conditions required to get the payments could affect farmer's willingness to trade land and entitlements. This paper - using a qualitative approach and some results of a farm based simulation analysis - explores how...
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This work discusses the conflict between two of the main objectives of the EU Water Framework Directive: cost recovery and economic efficiency in the use of irrigation water. In the Mediterranean region, this conflict is commonly embedded in a state of under-utilization of irrigation networks...
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