This paper assesses the impact of agricultural policy reform on the representation of Irish farmers and their spouses in the non-farm labour market. The 2003 reform of the Common Agricultural Policy involves the decoupling of direct income support from production. The hypothesis that decoupling...

This paper analyses implications of the 2003 Mid Term Review of the CAP, particularly decoupling of direct payments from production, for Irish farming. Using the Irish FADN data base, an integrated modelling approach involving optimisation models and econometric estimation has been developed to...

Pakistan is deficient in major food products. Self-sufficiency in food has virtually always been a major priority, because imports of wheat, edible oil, sugar, pulses and milk products put a massive burden on the balance of payments for the country. The increase in the production of oilseed has...

In order to respond to the current pressures on agriculture in the EU, the industry will have to go through fundamental structural change. Economic modelling provides the framework for understanding such changes. Mathematical programming is probably the most robust of all the modelling...

The behavioural intentions of a sample of livestock farmers in the south-west of England towards new technologies were analysed within a Theory of Reasoned Action (TORA) framework, in order to explore reasons for the apparently low rate at which research-based knowledge is being transferred to...