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Can the CAP payments facilitate the growth of individual farms in the NMS post-EU accession?

Latruffe, Laure, Davidova, Sophia M., Douarin, E., Gorton, Matthew Can the CAP payments facilitate the growth of individual farms in the NMS post-EU accession? In: XIIth Congress of EAAE, 26th-29th August 2008, Ghent, Belgium. (Unpublished) (KAR id:14671)

Abstract

The impact of the introduction of the EU Single Area Payments (SAP) on farm strategy is investigated for a sample of Lithuanian farms, utilising farm accounting and survey data. The applications of two investment models demonstrate that the credit market in Lithuania was imperfect prior to accession and that some farms were financially constrained. The introduction of the SAP has a significant, positive influence on farmers’ intentions to expand their farm area compared to a baseline scenario of the continuation of pre-accession policy. The switch in policy has a more pronounced effect on farms that were previously credit constrained. While the SAP has been presented as a policy support that is decoupled from production, its introduction will nevertheless have ex post coupled effects, most notably an income multiplier effect on credit constrained farmers.

Item Type: Conference or workshop item (Paper)
Projects: EU FP6 project IDEMA (Implications of Decoupling and Modulation on the Enlarged Union) SSPE-CT-2003-502171.
Uncontrolled keywords: Single Area Payments (SAP), Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), credit, Lithuania
Subjects: S Agriculture > S Agriculture (General)
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Economics
Depositing User: Sophia Davidova
Date Deposited: 29 Jun 2011 19:02 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Feb 2021 12:26 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/14671 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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