Subsidies to Less Favoured Areas in the Czech Republic: Why Do They Matter?

Jana Poláková

Prague Economic Papers, 2019, vol. 2019, issue 4, 416-432

Abstract: Subsidy to less favoured area (LFA) farms is central to rural development policy in the European Union. Here, three categories of LFA support are assessed: farm competitiveness measures, LFA measures, and agri-environment measures. These categories of measures are complementary to safeguarding land management and delivering ecosystem benefits. Based on historical data for the Czech Republic, this paper endeavours to illustrate potential methods for assessing the LFA subsidies. In sum, rigorous methods to evaluate LFA evidence are still at their very starting point, even as they are necessary in order to ascertain the Community's capability, alongside the local, regional, or national institutional capability. A positive trend has been identified with regard to stabilizing the available rural development budget for the policy priority "Restoring, preserving and enhancing agroecosystems".

Keywords: LFA support; rural development funding; land-based measures (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H41 N50 Q10 R1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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