Economists have rarely considered the implications of taxation systems for the agricultural sector. Management specialists and accountants have usually approached theissue from the perspective of how farmers and landowners can avoid it. Little has been written on the extent to which the special...

Directions in Rural Development Policy - Lessons from Both Sides of the Atlantic Copyright (c) 2008 The Authors.

Helping European Agriculture to Adjust - A Proactive Approach to Agricultural Policy Copyright The Agricultural Ecomomics Society and the European Association of Agricultural Economists 2006.

This document was prepared by David Blandford, Penn State University and Berkeley Hill, London University. It is based on results from a research project funded by the Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture entitled "Policy Reform and Agricultural Adjustment" under a...

Economists have rarely considered the implications of taxation systems for the agricultural sector. Management specialists and accountants have usually approached the issue from the perspective of how farmers and landowners can avoid it. Little has been written on the extent to which the special...

The social attributes that agriculture is assumed to provide in its multifunctional role are analysed. Links with structural characteristics are examined and questions raised on the extent to which these are dependent on sustaining the present structure of EU agriculture. The nature of an...