Disadvantage and economic viability: characterising vulnerabilities and resilience in upland farming systems
Disadvantage and economic viability: characterising vulnerabilities and resilience in upland farming systems
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DOI：
10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104698
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发表时间：
2020-07-01
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影响因子：
7.1
通讯作者：
Ferreira, Joana
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作者：
Barnes, Andrew P.;Thomson, Steven G.;Ferreira, Joana
指定了较不有利的地区，以支持在生产潜力有限的土地上开展农业活动。然而，这些地区的土地逐步放弃，对维持可行的农业企业的支助付款的理由和目标提出了质疑。利用2003-2016年期间农业企业的微观数据，与土地能力和空间数据相匹配，我们确定了欠发达地区可行和脆弱企业的分布。我们发现五类家庭的基础上渐进的生活质量阈值，即i。脆弱的，二。可持续，三。可行的，四。有弹性的，和健壮的。比例优势模型测量生物物理和远程不利预测这些国家的可行性，沿着与农场家庭的生命周期因素的影响。虽然我们预计更高比例的弱势农田与生存能力呈负相关，但与农村偏远相结合，这增加了影响的程度。然而，明确的继承规划和租赁安排表明，对企业和农场家庭生命周期的管理方法可以克服其中一些缺点。这些结果必须考虑到英国计划退出共同农业政策。这提供了一个机会，可以提供一个更细致的办法，在现有标准之外针对和支持处境不利的地区。然而，在拟议的以成果为导向的为公益物付费的议程与支持纠正提供这些公益物的机会有限的自然不利条件之间似乎存在不协调。
Less Favoured Areas (LFA) were designated to support farming activity on land with limited productive potential. However, progressive land abandonment in these areas questions the rationale and targeting of support payments to maintain viable farming enterprises. Using micro level data on farm businesses over the period 2003-2016 matched to land capability and spatial data we identify the distribution of viable and vulnerable enterprises in Less Favoured Areas. We find five categories of household based on progressive quality of life thresholds, namely i. vulnerable, ii. sustainable, iii. viable, iv. resilient, and v. robust. A proportional odds model measured the effect of biophysical and remote disadvantage on predicting these states of viability, along with farm family lifecycle factors. Whilst we would expect higher proportions of disadvantaged farmland to be negatively related to viability, when combined with rural remoteness this increases the magnitude of the effect. However, clear succession planning and tenancy arrangements suggest that approaches to management of the business and the farm family life-cycle may overcome some of these disadvantages. These results have to be considered against the UK's planned withdrawal from the Common Agricultural Policy. This offers opportunities to provide a more nuanced approach to targeting and supporting disadvantaged regions beyond current criteria. However, there would seem to be dissonance between the proposed payment for public goods agenda, which is results orientated, and support for correcting natural disadvantages where opportunities for delivery of these public goods will be limited.