Summary

Kenneth J. Thomson

EuroChoices, 2014, vol. 13, issue 1, 20-25

Abstract: type="graphical">

The CAP comprises a well-developed system of common farm income support but a much weaker set of structural instruments which tackle the obvious problems of many small and semi-subsistence farmers (SSFs) in most parts of the European Union, especially in the New Member States which joined in the 2000s. This policy imbalance derived from both Member State reluctance to agree on a common set of instruments directed at such issues, and a general focus on full-time or main-occupation farmers, to the neglect of part-time farming and other income sources. In the CAP to date, Pillar I payments are based largely on farm size. Along with minimum eligibility criteria, this has resulted in a policy bias against small and SSFs, while residual market support measures tend to favour larger farms.

Date: 2014
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1111/euch.2014.13.issue-1 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bla:eurcho:v:13:y:2014:i:1:p:20-25

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.blackwell ... bs.asp?ref=1478-0917

Access Statistics for this article

EuroChoices is currently edited by John Davis

More articles in EuroChoices from The Agricultural Economics Society Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Wiley Content Delivery ().