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| Freshwater, David. |
| The farm problem is a longstanding topic in agricultural economics, and farm organizations continue to press claims that they are disadvantaged and deserve public support. While society may choose to support farmers it is clear that existing farm programs to not do an effective job of providing support. Farm income and farm subsidies are highly concentrated and the lowest income farmers receive little support. Moreover most households with low farm income typically manage their farm to achieve this goal. Politically, commercial farms require that hobby farms continue to be recorded as actual farms in order to mask the small number of enterprises that actually benefit from farm programs. Whether this lead to good public policy is another matter. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Farm problem; Income distribution; Farm household objective function; Farm income; Farm policy; Agricultural and Food Policy. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/42315 |
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| Valentinov, Vladislav. |
| This article uses the farm problem theory as the framework for a comparative analysis of cooperative, market and hierarchical organization in the agrifood system. In order to carry out this analysis, the article proposes the organizational economics approach to the farm problem which supplements the traditional approaches explaining it in terms of low opportunity costs and high mobility costs of factors employed in agriculture. According to the proposed organizational economics approach, the farm problem is the outcome of inappropriateness of hierarchical and market organization for effective coordination of agricultural activities. The central argument of the article is that agricultural cooperatives are important because they partially perform the... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Cooperative; Market; Hierarchy; Farm problem; Structural change; Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/45107 |
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