Attitudes to Agricultural Policy and Farming Futures in the Context of the 2003 CAP Reform: a Comparison of Farmers in Selected Established and New Member States
By Matthew Gorton, E. Douarin, S. Davidova, Laure Latruffe *. 2008
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Farmers’ attitudes, to agricultural production, diversification and policy support, and behavioural intentions in five Member States of the EU (France, Lithuania, Slovakia, Sweden, England) are analysed comparatively. Groups of farmers with similarly held attitudes are identified using cluster analysis to investigate whether differences in attitudes are defined predominately according to national, east–west, size or other criteria. The results highlight that the vast majority of farmers in the enlarged EU retain a productivist mindset, wish to maintain an agricultural focus and strongly reject notions of policy liberalisation. However, while the overwhelming majority advocate protection they are more receptive to greater flexibility in terms of the instruments through which policy support may be delivered. Overall, the strongest opposition to policy liberalisation comes from farmers in the New Member States of the EU.
Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Plant Science
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- Deconstructing the ‘young farmer problem in Europe’: Towards a research agenda (2015, background): “As such, farmers in Eastern Europe appear to be more oriented to ‘productivist’ farming approaches, although there is considerable debate over the extent to which multifunctionality has been adopted in Western Europe (Burton and Wilson, 2006; Gorton et al., 2008).”