Is part-time farming less subsidised? The example of direct payments in France and Switzerland

Latruffe, Laure; Mann, Stefan

doi:10.1684/agr.2015.0732

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“…On one hand, organizations like Via Campesina and Community Supported Agriculture are promoting small-scale food production geared to local needs and markets; on the other, corporate agriculture continues to promote large-scale industrial farming for export markets. Despite evidence that alternative farming models are beneficial both ecologically and socially, dominant agricultural policies continue to sideline them (Latruffe and Mann, 2015). These competing agricultural visions, and the farming practices they implicitly and explicitly endorse, have their roots in fundamentally different policy visions of best practices.…”

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Shifting practices and shifting discourses: policy and small-scale agriculture in Canada

Machum

2015

Cahiers Agricultures

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Shifting practices and shifting discourses: policy and small-scale agriculture in Canada C ensus after census, the Canadian farm population is aging; the number of farms is declining, and the average farm size is increasing (Statistics Canada, 2007, 2012a. This paper argues that these ongoing structural transformations in Canadian agriculture are the outcomes of a very long and systematic policy agenda that has supported large-scale

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Shifting practices and shifting discourses: policy and small-scale agriculture in Canada

Machum

2015

Cahiers Agricultures

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“…Sustainability assessments can be facilitated when the core FADN dataset is augmented by additional data (as reviewed by Bradley and Hill [35]) for example to add new indicators (GHG emissions [36], or pesticide use [37]) or through data linkage (to taxation records for off-farm income [38]) or geographically (to land parcel [39] or other administrative data [40]). Yet, while demonstrating the potential of an augmented dataset the lack of pan-EU coverage means, when combined with institutional and data protection issues, that such studies often must be limited to single MS or regions.…”

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Old Wine in New Bottles: Exploiting Data from the EU’s Farm Accountancy Data Network for Pan-EU Sustainability Assessments of Agricultural Production Systems

et al. 2021

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The paper presents insights from carrying out a pan-EU sustainability assessment using Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) data (the old wine) with societal metabolism accounting (SMA) processes (the new bottles). The SMA was deployed as part of a transdisciplinary study with EU policy stakeholders of how EU policy may need to change to deliver sustainability commitments, particularly to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The paper outlines the concepts underlying SMA and its specific implementation using the FADN data. A key focus was on the interactions between crop and livestock systems and how this determines imported feedstuffs requirements, with environmental and other footprints beyond the EU. Examples of agricultural production systems performance are presented in terms of financial/efficiency, resource use (particularly the water footprint) and quantifies potential pressures on the environment. Benefits and limitations of the FADN dataset and the SMA outputs are discussed, highlighting the challenges of linking quantified pressures with environmental impacts. The paper concludes that the complexity of agriculture’s interactions with economy and society means there is great need for conceptual frameworks, such as SMA, that can take multiple, non-equivalent, perspectives and that can be deployed with policy stakeholders despite generating uncomfortable knowledge.

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“…Off-farm income and offfarm employment are sensitive personal information. One of the possible solutions is to match FADN with tax records to provide information on household income (Latruffe and Mann 2015).…”

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Approaches to estimation the farm-level economic viability and sustainability in agriculture: A literature review

Špička¹,

Hlavsa²,

Soukupova³

et al. 2019

Agric. Econ. - Czech

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Estimation of farm economic sustainability and viability became more topical when redesigning the Common Agricultural Policy which should stabilise farm income and make agribusiness more viable and sustainable (typically in Czech areas facing natural constraints). The key question is how to calculate the income of farms or farm households not only to survive but also to grow sustainably. The article summarises and compares knowledge from 51 studies to provide a comprehensive discussion on different ways how to measure economic viability and sustainability to set income support for farms in the areas with natural constraints optimally. The authors found family farms and off-farm income as important limitations of FADN database (Farm Accountancy Data Network) for evaluation of the economic sustainability of farm household. Moreover, some financial ratios (Return on Assets – ROA and assets turnover) are not suitable viability indicators for farms with a high share of hired land (typically large legal entities). Joining family farms and legal entities, the authors recommend using modified Farm Net Value Added (MFNVA) allowing for opportunity costs of own land and non-land assets. The average wage in the economy or region is a better proxy for opportunity labour costs of unpaid work rather than average agricultural wage.<br />

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Is part-time farming less subsidised? The example of direct payments in France and Switzerland

Cited by 12 publications

References 34 publications

Shifting practices and shifting discourses: policy and small-scale agriculture in Canada

Shifting practices and shifting discourses: policy and small-scale agriculture in Canada

Old Wine in New Bottles: Exploiting Data from the EU’s Farm Accountancy Data Network for Pan-EU Sustainability Assessments of Agricultural Production Systems

Approaches to estimation the farm-level economic viability and sustainability in agriculture: A literature review

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