Title Agriculture, the countryside and land use : an economic critique / J.K. Bowers, Paul Cheshire

Published [Place of publication not identified] : Routledge, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (iv, 186 pages) Series Routledge Library Editions: Agriculture Ser. ; v. 4 Routledge Library Editions: Agriculture Ser Contents List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface and Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction 2. Agriculture and the Countryside 3. Countryside Changes in West Berkshire 4. From Rags to Riches or What the Government Has Done for Farmers and What Farmers Have Done for Us 5. The CAP Regime 6. Agriculture and Economic Efficiency 7. The Case for Agricultural Expansion 8. Options for Policy; Name Index; Subject Index Summary First published in 1983. How had the situation developed in which agriculture had become such a creature of state protection, where public money supported prosperous landowners while poor farmers received practically nothing? Where the value of agricultural support exceeded net farm income, and vastly exceeded the level of support available to British Steel or British Rail? In answering these questions John Bowers and Paul Cheshire examined the real value of agricultural support in successive policy phases since the Second World War, and analysed the effects this support had on income distribution. Their thesis was that agricultural change, including the transfer of land from traditional farmers to institutions and corporations, was not the product of impersonal progress, but the direct result of agricultural support policies, resting on specious economic arguments. The authors' analysis of this subject has inescapable relevance for the policymaker, for the taxpayer and consumer of foodstuffs, for the urban user of the British countryside and indeed for farmers and the farming lobby. Agriculture, the Countryside and Land Use will be an important book for all these groups and also for students of agriculture, geography and economics Notes Includes indexes Title details screen Subject Agriculture and state -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Land use, Rural -- Government policy -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Agricultural pollution -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Agricultural pollution Agriculture and state Land use, Rural -- Government policy Great Britain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Cheshire, P. C., author. ISBN 9780429293108 0429293100 9781000681611 1000681610 9781000681963 1000681963 9781000682311 1000682315

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