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Policy schemes and targeted technologies in an extensive cereal–sheep farming system

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  • Rafael Caballero

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Many commentators and experts arguethat extensive agricultural systems across theEuropean Union (EU) should be supported toreach the two main functions of the EuropeanModel of Agriculture (EMA): lively economicsystems and environmental awareness. We arguethat the main current policy instrument of theEMA, the CAP (Common Agricultural Policy),should be targeted to take advantage ofexisting regional diversity in social realitiesand agricultural structures. Community-basedresearch work has been carried out throughoutthe 1990s in the cereal–sheep farming system ofCastile-La Mancha (south-central Spain), wherea system of land-use operates in which cerealcropping and sheep farming are carried out onthe same land. Local agricultural staff andfarmers acted as collaborators in rating themain constraints and devising proposals forstructural, social, and institutional reforms.Results showed that the two social groupsinvolved (cultivators and pastoralists) haddivergent interests and unbalanced numbers forcollective action to be effective. Governmentintervention is required, but current EUagricultural policy is not accomplishing therestructuring objectives. Results of theopinion survey also support switching the EUsubsidy scheme to sheep from a per-head basisto a per-hectare basis and making grazing landmore accessible to landless shepherds. Regionalpolicy schemes should be devised that aretailored to meet the circumstances ofparticular land areas, but sensible policyschemes can only be devised after properknowledge of the structure and institutionalframework of EU agricultural systems. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 2002

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  • Rafael Caballero, 2002. "Policy schemes and targeted technologies in an extensive cereal–sheep farming system," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 19(1), pages 63-74, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:agrhuv:v:19:y:2002:i:1:p:63-74
    DOI: 10.1023/A:1015051010634
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    1. de Arriba Raul & Barac Maja, 2018. "Homo Economicus and the Shepherd: the Traditional Sheep Farmer Facing the Modernisation (or Intensification) of European Livestock," Eastern European Countryside, Sciendo, vol. 24(1), pages 171-187, December.
    2. Rafael Caballero, 2009. "Stakeholder interactions in Castile-La Mancha, Spain’s cereal-sheep system," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 26(3), pages 219-231, September.

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