Another look at the distribution of direct payments: The link with part-time farming

Laure Latruffe and Stefan Mann ()

No 09-02, Working Papers SMART from INRAE UMR SMART

Abstract: This paper contributes to the research about the relationship between off-farm employment and public support, by taking the issue upside down: does off-farm employment give an advantage to farms regarding the level of public support? Our hypothesis is that a higher degree of decoupling enables part-time farms to capture more easily direct payments than full-time farms. To test this, we compare the largely decoupled direct payment system in Switzerland in 2004, and the rather production-oriented payment system in France in 2003. Results show that Switzerland’s policy favoured farmers with an off-farm employment, while the French direct payment system had the opposite effect.

Keywords: direct payments; distribution; part-time farming; Switzerland; France (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q12 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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