 IMPACTS OF POLICY REFORM ON HILL FARM INCOMES IN UKSzvetlana Acs, Martin Dallimer, Nick Hanley and Paul R. Armsworth No 43182, Bulletin of the Szent Istvan University from Szent Istvan University, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences Abstract: Hill farming in UK is experiencing very difficult economic circumstances and many farmers rely on subsidies provided by the government for a large fraction of their income. The Peak District National Park is used as a case study to examine how farmers might respond to current policy changes – in particular, the move from area- and headage-based payments to the Single Farm Payment. The objective of this paper is thus to develop production models that predict how farmers will respond to changing policy framework conditions. For this purpose socio-economic surveys were carried out on 44 sample farms. Based on these surveys six representative farm linear programming models was developed, which represent typical farm types in the uplands in the Peak District. These models are used to calculate the effect of different policies, carried out under CAP reform, on incomes, land use and the intensity of production. In this study the focus is on typical sheep and beef farm type, the most common in this region. Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Environmental Economics and Policy; Farm Management; Land Economics/Use (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:siubul:43182 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Bulletin of the Szent Istvan University from Szent Istvan University, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences |
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