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Alternatives for Small Farm Survival: Government Policies Versus the Free Market: Discussion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Mary C. Ahearn
Mary C. Ahearn*
Affiliation:
Environmental Indicators and Resource Accounting with the Natural Resource and Environment Division, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC
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The topic of the relationship between sustainability and farm structure, including the role of government, is extremely timely. It is so timely, in fact, that economists have significantly more questions about these relationships than we do answers. Farm policy, with its emphasis on commodity production, is clearly at a turning point; perhaps this is the most critical time since the basic policies were established some 60 years ago. The Tweeten and Amponsah paper makes a contribution to our understanding of this sea of change in the policy arena and the likely impacts on small farms.

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Invited Paper Sessions
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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , July 1996 , pp. 95 - 98
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1996

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