IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/ifma02/6960.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

The Farm as an Enterprise – The European Perspective

Author

Listed:
  • Kuhlmann, Friedrich
  • Berg, Ernst

Abstract

Farming conditions in Europe are changing substantially. The liberalisation of agricultural commodity markets is accompanied by an increasing societal demand for environmental services to be provided by the farming sector. Significant changes are necessary to enable the farming sector to cope with these challenges. The paper describes some general developments of the past and outlines perspectives for the future. Explicit consideration is given to the future of single ownership family farms on one hand, and the perspectives and structural requirements of large scale farming in crop and livestock production on the other hand. The analysis shows that the future competitiveness of the European farming sector largely depends on political decisions. Given the romantic views of the majority of the population as well as many politicians it is everything but certain that the agricultural policy will provide the basis for an economically efficient and therefore globally competitive farming sector in Europe.

Suggested Citation

  • Kuhlmann, Friedrich & Berg, Ernst, 2002. "The Farm as an Enterprise – The European Perspective," 13th Congress, Wageningen, The Netherlands, July 7-12, 2002 6960, International Farm Management Association.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:ifma02:6960
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.6960
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/6960/files/cp02ku01.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.6960?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:ifma02:6960. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/ifmaaea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.