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Common Agricultural Policy direct payments and distributional conflicts over rented land within corporate farms in the New Member States

Latruffe, Laure, Davidova, Sophia M. (2007) Common Agricultural Policy direct payments and distributional conflicts over rented land within corporate farms in the New Member States. Land Use Policy, 24 (2). pp. 451-457. ISSN 0264-8377. (doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2006.06.003) (KAR id:8789)

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate whether distributional issues within corporate farms in the New Member States will be exacerbated by the introduction of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) direct payments. The paper focuses on the specific impact of the payments on the land rented to the corporate farms by private landowners. If the latter are not satisfied with the level of rent they receive, they have the option to end their rental contract and withdraw their land from the farm. Before accession to the European Union the landowners did not have strong incentives to withdraw, as the other opportunities available were not associated with higher returns on land ownership. However, this situation might change as the landowners can now cash the CAP direct payments themselves, providing they keep their land in good agricultural and environmental condition.Propositions generated by a simple game, representing the negotiations between a corporate farm manager and an individual landowner about the level of the rent, suggest that the CAP direct payments might induce more rent renegotiations but that overall withdrawals will be infrequent. The results from a survey of landowners in corporate farms in Slovakia and in the Czech Republic seemed to corroborate these a priori expectations. The investigation of the determinants of landowners’ intended behaviour showed that what seems to be important in the decision–making is the relationship between landowners and managers. Those landowners who have frequent contacts and close relations with the farm are less likely to withdraw.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2006.06.003
Projects: IDEMA project, SSPE-CT-2003-502171
Uncontrolled keywords: CAP direct payments, corporate farms, distributional conflicts, game theory, landowners
Subjects: H Social Sciences
Divisions: Divisions > Kent Business School - Division > Kent Business School (do not use)
Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Economics
Funders: European Commission (https://ror.org/00k4n6c32)
Depositing User: Sophia Davidova
Date Deposited: 24 Jul 2008 09:47 UTC
Last Modified: 12 Jul 2022 10:38 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/8789 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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