Rural adjustment schemes: juggling politics, welfare and markets
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Article Title | Rural adjustment schemes: juggling politics, welfare and markets |
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ERA Journal ID | 18732 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Cockfield, Geoff (Author) and Botterill, Linda Courtenay (Author) |
Journal Title | Australian Journal of Public Administration |
Journal Citation | 65 (2), pp. 70-82 |
Number of Pages | 13 |
Year | 2006 |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Place of Publication | Melbourne, Australia |
ISSN | 0313-6647 |
1467-8500 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8500.2006.00483.x |
Web Address (URL) | http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/ajpa/65/2 |
Abstract | The Commonwealth government has offered support to farmers in the form of structural or business adjustment-type schemes since the Loan (Farmers Debt Adjustment) Acts of 1935-1971. Since 1971 a series of more comprehensive rural reconstruction/adjustment schemes with a range of objectives from debt alleviation to encouraging some exits from agricultural industries, has been in place. While having little direct impact on the structure of these industries, the various schemes have been politically important and an indicator of how core values relating to agricultural production and rural life have changed. A review of the schemes shows an increasing focus on improving farm productivity and sustainability, accompanied by a discourse emphasising the need to promote the ‘farm business’, rather than to protect the ‘family farm’. On the other hand, governments have also used these schemes to deliver ‘welfare’ outputs. |
Keywords | rural adjustment schemes; politics; political; Australia; Australian |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 440709. Public policy |
441003. Rural sociology | |
350716. Small business organisation and management | |
Public Notes | File reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher/author. |
Byline Affiliations | Australian Centre for Sustainable Catchments |
University of New South Wales |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/9y9z2/rural-adjustment-schemes-juggling-politics-welfare-and-markets
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