[PDF] An Analysis Of The Distribution Of Farm Incomes In England And Wales eBook

Author : Berkeley Hill
Publisher : Gower Publishing Company, Limited
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,99 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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Hill (policy analysis, U. of London) grapples with issues arising from the fact that farmers in Europe are on the whole not a low-income or poor sector of society, so that much of the present income support from the Common Agricultural Policy is going to people who are relatively well off. He looks at the scarce data on the income of farmers and the difficulties in gathering and analyzing it, examines the agricultural policies of Britain and the European Union, explores conceptual issues such as consumption and living standards, and reviews indicators of income from agricultural production. The third edition (first in 1989) is updated from the second in 1994 to incorporate new data and policies. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Berkeley Hill
Publisher : CABI
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 10,51 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 184593847X

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The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has been supporting the incomes of the European Union's agricultural community for half a century. Despite this, there is still no official system in place to track the economic wellbeing of farmers and their families. This book examines the evidence on the overall wealth of farming households, and concludes that in nearly all member states, they are not generally a poor sector of society, with disposable incomes that are similar to, or exceed, the national average. In this updated edition, the author discusses the latest evidence, makes recommendations for gathering better information, and considers the implications for the CAP as we enter the second decade of the 21st century.

Author : J. K. Bowers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 49,63 MB
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1000681610

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First published in 1983. How had the situation developed in which agriculture had become such a creature of state protection, where public money supported prosperous landowners while poor farmers received practically nothing? Where the value of agricultural support exceeded net farm income, and vastly exceeded the level of support available to British Steel or British Rail? In answering these questions John Bowers and Paul Cheshire examined the real value of agricultural support in successive policy phases since the Second World War, and analysed the effects this support had on income distribution. Their thesis was that agricultural change, including the transfer of land from traditional farmers to institutions and corporations, was not the product of impersonal progress, but the direct result of agricultural support policies, resting on specious economic arguments. The authors’ analysis of this subject has inescapable relevance for the policymaker, for the taxpayer and consumer of foodstuffs, for the urban user of the British countryside and indeed for farmers and the farming lobby. Agriculture, the Countryside and Land Use will be an important book for all these groups and also for students of agriculture, geography and economics.