Farm diversification, tenancy and CAP reform: results from a survey of tenant farmers in England.

By D. Maye, B. Ilbery, D. Watts. 2009

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Abstract Little work has considered explicitly the role of farm tenancy in influencing the uptake (or not) of diversification activities. The need to examine this link has been heightened because of the 2003 CAP reforms and the decision to tie Single Farm Payment (SFP) entitlement to the land rather than what is produced on that land. The main objective of this paper, therefore, is to examine the nature of diversification activities on tenant farms in England, which includes a consideration of how the introduction of the SFP and other CAP reforms may influence such restructuring processes. Results from a national postal survey, supported by tenant farmer/landlord interviews and a workshop, reveal high rates of farm diversification on farms with tenanted land. However, if one takes away contract/hire services the rate of diversification on tenant farms is much less. Tenant farms appear to favour more ‘traditional’ diversification activities and the results also demonstrate an increasing need to move towards more ‘encultured’ definitions of farm diversification. The second key finding to emerge from the research relates to the high levels of uncertainty and negativity surrounding the potential impacts of the CAP reforms, and SFP in particular, on farm business behaviour. Tenant farmers were more concerned about levels of SFP and entitlement than future investment decisions, including diversification.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science

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Farm diversification, entrepreneurship and technology adoption : analysis of upland farmers in Wales (2017, background): “Just as within the speci ﬁ c context of farming activity usage of the term diversi ﬁ cation is ‘ fuzzy ’ (CRR, 2002; Maye et al., 2009), so the concept of entrepreneurial activity remains ‘ slippery ’ , more than half a century since Edith Penrose attached this adjective (Penrose, 1959).”
Analysing behavioural differences of farm households: An example of income diversification strategies based on European farm survey data (2017, background): “Offarm diversification plays an important role for the persistence of mall farms (Maye et al., 2009), like small-scale livestock specialsts and diversified small farm households in our study, which need o look out for new business opportunities also in other sectors of he rural economy.”
Assessing the sustainability of agritourism in the US: a comparison between agritourism and other farm entrepreneurial ventures (2013, background): “However, the broadness of this definition made unclear the distinction between on-farm enterprises and other forms of off-farm enterprises developed with farm household resources, such as off-farm employment (Barbieri, Mahoney, & Butler, 2008 ; Daskalopoulou & Petrou, 2002 ; Maye, Ilbery, & Watts,”
Entrepreneurship in the Agricultural Sector: A Literature Review and Future Research Opportunities (2018, background): “Interestingly, the review revealed that political structures (Maye et al., 2009), institutional and cultural structures (Stenholm & Hytti, 2014) and professional networks (Ferguson & Hansson, 2015) appear to inhibit entrepreneurial efforts.”