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Farm Incomes, Wealth and Agricultural Policy Edition 4
Filling the CAP's Core Information Gap
Hardback
August 2012
9781845938475
More details
- Publisher
CABI - Published
14th August 2012 - ISBN 9781845938475
- Language English
- Pages 330 pp.
- Size 6.875" x 9.75"
- Images 51 illus
$230.60
The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has been supporting the incomes of the European Union's agricultural community for half a century. Despite this, there is still no official system in place to track the economic wellbeing of farmers and their families. This book examines the evidence on the overall wealth of farming households, and concludes that in nearly all member states, they are not generally a poor sector of society, with disposable incomes that are similar to, or exceed, the national average. In this updated edition, the author discusses the latest evidence, makes recommendations for gathering better information, and considers the implications for the CAP as we enter the second decade of the 21st century.
1. Introduction
2. Incomes and Agricultural Policy
3. Conceptual Issues
4. Indicators of Income from Agricultural Production
5. Incomes of Agricultural Households
6. Wealth
7. Information and Policy
Berkeley Hill
Successively from 1970 to 2005 Berkeley Hill held the posts of lecturer, senior lecturer, reader in Agricultural Economics and, from 1999, professor at Wye College (University of London) and, following its merger in 2000, Imperial College London. This involved teaching economics and policy and researching at the interface between statistics and policy. On early retirement in 2005 he was made Emeritus Professor of Policy Analysis by Imperial College London (currently being listed within its Environmental Policy group). In 2008/9 Berkeley Hill was elected President of the Agricultural Economics Society. Since 2005 he has worked as a consultant for the World Bank, FAO, OECD, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and the UNECE. He has also worked as part of the AgraCEAS Consulting team (a business part-owned by Imperial College) evaluating aspects of rural development policy in England, Wales and Scotland and in assessing the impact on agriculture of Brexit.