Lower diversity of plant and animal farmland species are usually reported where cropland
has been aggregated into larger fields, which raises prospects of curbing declines in …

Viable farm households contribute to the resilience of agricultural and food systems. Farm
income is a policy-relevant proxy for this viability. Here, we address three key aspects of …

Every economic operator must implement investments to function and develop. The
particularities of agriculture are such that governments often choose to intervene with a …

The recent reform of the Common Agricultural Policy, which decouples farm subsidies from
production, is expected to impact on farmers' production decisions. We perform a cross …

The global debate on food security and the kinds of farming systems that could prove
economically and ecologically sustainable has focused overwhelmingly on small family …

Structural change in agriculture is characterized by the interdependency of farms' growth
decisions due to the scarcity of agricultural land. This paper adds to the sparse empirical …

This article investigates how French farmers in two regions, Centre and Midi-Pyrénées,
could react if the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) were fully removed, based on a survey …

We examine the effect of direct payments in less-favoured areas (LFAs) on agricultural land
use and farm numbers in Japan, using community-level panel data. Direct payments, which …

This article aims at investigating the impact of financial supports from agricultural policy on
farm‐size dynamics. Since not all farms may behave alike, a non‐stationary mixed‐Markov …

The article investigated farm investment behaviour among East (Hungarian and Slovenian)
and West (French) European Union farms using individual farm accountancy panel data for …