Regional Agricultural Policies

Regional agricultural policies have been adopted recently by the European Economic Community through a directive on mountain and hill farming. The selective assistance introduced by the directive is new to many countries in the E.E.C., but similar measures have been used in the United Kingdom for over three decades. The paper analyzes the results of the measures in the United Kingdom and outlines implications for the European Economic Community. Attention is drawn to the variable impact of production subsidies on the agricultural geography both of eligible areas and of the whole agricultural sector. Investment grants also exert a varying impact within eligible areas, and experience in the United Kingdom demonstrates the limited ability of both types of measures to stem depopulation or raise the relative level of farm incomes in upland regions. One problem lies in the limited resources allocated to regional agricultural policies within the context of the total value of government aid to agriculture

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  John Fraser Hart•Economic Geography•1956

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