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| Titel: |
Agricultural restructuring and state assistance: competing or complementary rural policy paradigms? |
| Auteur: |
Potter, Clive Lobley, Matt |
| Verschenen in: |
Journal of environmental policy & planning |
| Paginering: | Jaargang 6 (2004) nr. 1 pagina's 3-18 |
| Jaar: |
2004-03 |
| Inhoud: |
The restructuring of European agriculture as a policy project has a long and complicated history. Since the late 1950s, policy makers have adopted a number of sometimes contradictory positions on this issue, a 'developmental' policy stance dedicated to assisting agricultural restructuring gradually giving way to, but never being entirely eclipsed by, a paradigmatic notion of state assistance designed actually to keep farmers on the land. This paper traces the nature of this policy evolution and explores the ways in which public policy has been empirically informed by a construction of farmers and farm households as both passive victims of an externally driven restructuring process and active seizers of opportunities for diversification and further restructuring. Commenting on the increasing ambiguity of the European policy stance and its differential presentation to international and domestic audiences, the paper focuses on the UK as a member state with one of the most robust, neo-liberal postures on agricultural restructuring. It reviews recent empirical studies of the restructuring process and concludes that while there is little evidence to suggest that UK agriculture is yet on the brink of significant structural change, a steady diversification of the income base of many farm households is leading to the emergence of a community of land managers that is more diverse and decoupled from agricultural policy support than ever before. The paper concludes by reflecting on the implications of these trends for policy design and the concept of state assistance in a period of agricultural change. |
| Uitgever: |
Routledge |
| Bronbestand: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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