Spatial Analysis of Viable Farms

Paul Kilgarriff, O’Donoghue, Cathal, Eoin Grealis, Niall Farrell, Stephen Hynes, Mary Ryan, Emma Dillion, Stuart Green, Karyn Morrissey, Thia Hennessy and Trevor Donnellan
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Cathal O'donoghue

No 212680, 150th Seminar, October 22-23, 2015, Edinburgh, Scotland from European Association of Agricultural Economists

Abstract: An economically viable farm is defined as having the capacity to remunerate family labour at the average agricultural wage, together with a return of 5 per cent on non-land assets. There is however significant spatial heterogeneity among farms. In this paper we examine farm viability using a classification concept (Frawley and Commins, 1996). A spatial microsimulation approach is used to add a spatial component to a farm micro dataset. This dataset is then linked to a spatial micro dataset of households which allows for farm and nonfarm analyses within the same analysis. This dataset enables us to analyse the characteristics of the areas within which viable farms exist in addition to the farms themselves.

Keywords: Agricultural; and; Food; Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.212680

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