Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/169260 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
LIS Working Paper Series No. 700
Publisher: 
Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), Luxembourg
Abstract: 
At a time when policy-makers in many developed countries continue to justify farm support on the basis of relatively low and unstable incomes, this chapter shows that incomes of farm households are not particularly lower on average compared to those of non-farm households in most of the ten selected OECD member countries. What is however striking is that income disparity and poverty are greater in the farm community compared to the non-farm community in most of the selected countries. This analysis questions therefore the continuation of indiscriminate farm income support. It also calls for the need of collecting farm household data that would allow a more effective targeting of farm support and for revising fundamentally public interventions towards the agricultural sector.
Subjects: 
farm household income
farm problem
LIS data
OECD countries
JEL: 
Q12
Q18
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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