Farm incomes, wealth and agricultural policy : filling the CAP's core information gap /

• Main Author: Hill, Berkeley, (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2012.
• Edition: 4th edition.
• Subjects: Farm income > Great Britain.; Farmers > Economic conditions. > Great Britain; Agriculture and state > Great Britain.; Farm income > Case studies.; Farmers > Case studies. > Economic conditions; Agriculture and state > Case studies.; Agricultural Economics.; Policy and Planning.; Income and Poverty.; Agricultural policy.; Assets.; CAP.; Farm income.; Information.; Living standards.; Electronic books.
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• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 315 pages) : illustrations, charts; Also available in print format.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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The main thesis of this book is that, within the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), incomes are not, and never have been, assessed in a way that is appropriate to the fundamental needs of policy. This also applies in the UK and most other industrialized countries. Furthermore, with a few national exceptions, the necessary information is not available by which a policy aimed directly at enabling the agricultural population to enjoy a fair standard of living could be designed and monitored. Wealth, as it relates to the economic status of farmers and their families, is almost totally ignored. The book has 7 chapters and a subject index.