Comment: Family Farms, Agricultural Policy, and Small-Farm Essentialism

2021 ◽  
Vol 95 (2) ◽  
pp. 971
Author(s):  
Gilbert
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Family Farms ◽  
Small Farm

scholarly journals Farms in the system of European supportpolicy

2008 ◽  
pp. 79-83
Author(s):  
Dóra Nagyné Demeter
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Common Agricultural Policy ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Family Farms ◽  
Member States ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
The North ◽  
Structure Changes ◽  
Agricultural Structure

Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has been having a great past, it is over numerous direction and structure changes in the last half century. After the Treaty of Rome, the harmonization of he agricultural structure and the production of Member States has been launched, during which the economic changes in the world and in Europe were continuously being kept track of. By using common experience, they strived to develop an agricultural sector that supplies the Member States of the Community with food, while the competitiveness and living circumstances of family farms are being improved. The general directions outlined in Stresa in 1958 were significantly redrawn owing to the transformed market conditions and EU accessions. The subsidization of family farms and the improvement of their profitability are having a stressed importance nowadays, too. Our country, as the fully qualified member of the European Union tries to meet its obligations undertaken in the accession treaty and therefore to develop an agricultural sector carrying out diversified agricultural production with a healthy age structure. The aim of the study is to specifically overview the issue of common agricultural policy by stressing the main development points and to introduce the Hungarian conditions of family farms. Besides, there will be an evaluation of the research works examining the income conditions of family farms in the North Great Plain region.

scholarly journals Distribution of family farms according to estate size and land usage in Hajdú-Bihar County

2007 ◽  
pp. 130-136
Author(s):  
Dóra Nagyné Demeter
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
National Average ◽  
Agricultural Activities ◽  
Family Farms ◽  
Land Usage ◽  
Family Enterprises ◽  
Individual Family ◽  
The Common

In harmony with European tendencies, the role of agriculture and its share in GDP output, as well as in employment, is continuously decreasing in Hungary and Hajdú-Bihar County. At the same time, according to the specialized literature, the role of agriculture is still extremely important in the income of the rural population and in easing the present social tensions, and this will not change in the future. The economic and social processes of the last one and a half decades caused radical changes in agriculture. The above-mentioned processes resulted in new property and organizational structure in the field of leasehold and land structure. The rational land concentration which came to pass in the last few years can be mentioned as a favourable tendency that improves the efficiency of agricultural activities, as well as the more effective land usage accompanied by this process. In addition, it supports the integration with principles formulated in the Common Agricultural Policy. In this study, I survey the effects of established processes and the change of land usage in the case of individual family enterprises in Hajdú-Bihar County. The choice of the examination area was motivated by the higher proportion of agricultural area in comparison with the national average and the fact that this sector has great importance today, too.

scholarly journals Rola Agencji Nieruchomości Rolnych w przemianach struktury agrarnej w Polsce

2005 ◽  
pp. 19-30
Author(s):  
Aldona Zawojska
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Strong Correlation ◽  
The State ◽  
Family Farms ◽  
Dominant Form ◽  
State Sector ◽  
Average Area ◽  
Study Results ◽  
The Government ◽  
Ownership Transformation

The restructuring and privatisation in Poland's state sector of agriculture was (in 1991) entrusted to the Agricultural Property Agency of the State Treasury (hereafter Agricultural Property Agency). The agency was expected to play an important role in the state agricultural policy as far as structural and ownership transformation of the Polish agriculture is concerned. Almost 80% of land in the Treasury Agricultural Property Stock was taken over from former state-owned farms, asymmetrically concentrated in northern and western provinces. The purpose of liquidation of state farms was intended to strengthen the model of family farms chosen by the Government, mainly through privatisation of state land. In fact, till present the agency has sold merely one third of the land in its stock. The lease remains the dominant form applied in management of land, comprising approximately 2 million ha in permanent use among individual farmers and companies. This paper empirically explores the impacts of AP A on agrarian structure in Poland. The study results show statistically significant strong correlation between regionally distributed property in the form of land sale/land lease and the average area of individual farms.

ZAWODOWO I ROLNIKA INDYWIDUALNEGO W SYSTEMIE PLANOWANIA STRATEGICZNEGO WPR

2021 ◽  
pp. 137-152
Author(s):  
Piotr Iwaszkiewicz ◽  
Przemysław Litwiniuk
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Common Agricultural Policy ◽  
Family Farm ◽  
Structural Elements ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Family Farms ◽  
Legal Concept ◽  
The Common ◽  
Polish Law

In the new proposed legal solutions, shaping the instruments of the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union, the concept of “active farmer” is of great importance, as it is an key element of a family farm. The European Union and the member states will program strategic interventions, addressed mainly to family farms. The authors of the article characterized the structural elements of the proposed legal concept of “active farmer” and compared them with the elements of the concept of “individual farmer” known in Polish law. They presented a conclusion that the Polish and EU understanding of the legal category of “family farm” is different and the current Polish legal solutions will not be useful in constructing and implementing the strategic plan for 2023–2027. They also call for a revision of Polish legal solutions relating to family farms.

THE PRIVILEGED STATUS OF FAMILY FARMS AS A SPECIAL FAMILY FORM IN CONDUCTING AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITY IN POLAND. ISSUES SELECTED IN THE FIELD OF ACQUIRING AGRICULTURAL LAND RIGHTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-170
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Czerwińska-Koral
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Land Rights ◽  
Agricultural System ◽  
Agricultural Activity ◽  
Family Farm ◽  
Legal Regulations ◽  
Family Farms ◽  
Privileged Status ◽  
The Republic

According to art. 23 of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland, family farms form the basis of the agricultural system of the Republic of Poland. Family farms is a special type of farm run by an individual farmer. The legislator, realizing the assumptions of agricultural policy, concretes the constitutional norm by means of formal institutions, that is, regulations and legal regulations that prefer a family farm as a form of conducting agricultural activity. Thus, conducting business in this special form and - as a result - managing it is easier compared to other forms of activity. Particular facilities relate to the acquisition of agricultural land rights (possession of agricultural land). The purpose of this article is to draw attention to the preferences of the legislator in relation to family farms and individual farmers who run them.

scholarly journals The Workforce and its Costs – Constraints of Agricultural Development in Bosnia and Herzegovina

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Željko Vaško ◽  
Marko Ivanković
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Comparative Advantage ◽  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Family Farms ◽  
Workforce Reduction ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Agriculture Development

The subject of the research was workforce, its availability and price, and its importance for agriculture development in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). The aim was to determine whether the workforce remains to be a comparative advantage or has become a limitation on agricultural development in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The introduction to the selected subject of research was done on the basis of a literature review, followed by an authors’ own survey based on a randomly selected sample of farms. The results confirmed that it is increasingly difficult to find workers for seasonal works in agriculture in Bosnia and Herzegovina and that farms rely primarily on the workforce within families, relatives and friends. The price of labour in agriculture is rising, but it is still lower than in other sectors and abroad, which is the reason why workers are leaving agriculture. Bosnia and Herzegovina compared to three years ago, it is harder for Bosnia and Herzegovina farms to find additional workforce and they pay it more. The future agricultural policy in Bosnia and Herzegovina should seriously count on family farms and their modernization in terms of creating conditions for workforce reduction and substitution.

scholarly journals Agricultural support model: towards long-term viability

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-56
Author(s):  
Nelė Jurkėnaitė ◽  
Artiom Volkov
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Family Farms ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Important Challenge ◽  
Model Improvement ◽  
Direct Payments ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Support Model

Over the recent decades the EU CAP was criticized and the reform of direct payments was underlined as an important challenge empowering desired changes. The research challenges a problem of the national support model improvement in order to promote a welfare-orientated agriculture and ensure viability of family farms. The article aims to evaluate the relevance of the Lithuanian direct payments’ model for the period 2015–2020 and propose recommendations on the development of support model. The analysis of literature on viability and the CAP issues was conducted stressing the importance of the selected viability concept for agricultural policy development. The synthesis of previous research, calculus of variations and legislation analysis were employed to estimate the relevance of current direct payments’ model in Lithuania and identify the revision of redistributive payments as possible development directions aiming to ensure long-run viability of agriculture. The recommendations on the development of the current support model are based on the estimation of impact and the comparative analysis of the selected alternatives.

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