Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/182573 
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Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
LEAF AgEcon Working Paper
Publisher: 
University of Lincoln, Lincoln International Business School, Lincoln Economics and Finance Research Group (LEAF), Lincoln
Abstract: 
Recent technological advances both on the farm and in the lab have made farming more independent form nature than ever before. Arguably, the new and accessible technologies are helping us to better understand and 'manage' nature and thus for first time in history farming is becoming as any other industry, susceptible to specialisation and economies of scale. This in turn, besides increased productivity, leads to fundamental organisational change away from family control towards corporate forms with associated implications for employment and rural livelihoods - new technology in farming replaces both 'muscles and brains'.
Subjects: 
Agriculture
technology
employment
industrial organisation
JEL: 
D10
D13
D21
J43
L23
Q16
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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