From industrial holdings to subsistence farms in Romanian agriculture. Analyzing the subsistence components of CAP

Gabriel Popescu and Jean Andrei
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Gabriel Popescu: Centrefor Analysis and Regional Policies, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania
Jean Andrei: Economics and Business Administration Department, Petroleum and Gas University of Ploiesti, Ploiesti, Prahova, Romania

Agricultural Economics, 2011, vol. 57, issue 11, 555-564

Abstract: In terms of the EU enlargement from 15 to 27 states, the need to reform the CAP mechanisms was felt more than ever. Reorientation towards rural development measures and not towards supporting agricultural production raised a whole issue in which the efficiency criteria of the agricultural policies are concerned. If until now the Union entire attention was directed towards industrial farms, the option to promote family farms, with lower returns but with a high social impact by mobilizing the human resources from the rural area towards this field and preventing migration towards the city and the industrial areas, raised fierce debates. This paper presents a brief analysis of the impact of re-focusing the CAP towards promoting family-farms, mostly of the subsistence type, in the Romanian agrarian economy, in the context of an increased globalization of the agricultural relations.

Keywords: subsistence farming; Common Agricultural Policy; agricultural system; sub financing; rural population (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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