Walsh, Jim
(1991)
A Regional Analysis of Enterprise Substitution in Irish Agriculture in the context of a changing Common Agricultural Policy.
Irish Geography, 24 (1).
pp. 10-23.
ISSN 0075-0778
Abstract
In the 1980s a number of measures were introduced in order to curb the growing problem of surpluses in production in many sectors of European agriculture. In responding to these
measures, farmers have had to reconsider questions of enterprise choice and levels of specialisation in their farming operations. This paper examines the resultant regional patterns of enterprise substitution which have occurred in Ireland. It is demonstrated that, while there has been some continuity between the 1980s and previous decades in relation to intensification processes, there has been a reversal of the trend towards greater regional specialisation, so that by the end of the 1980s the production system in each region was more diversified. Shift and share analysis is used to disaggregate the components of change for each region.
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Keywords: |
Common Agricultural Policy Reform; Agricultural Change; Ireland |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography |
| Item ID: |
10962 |
| Identification Number: |
https://doi.org/10.2014/igj.v24i1.589 |
| Depositing User: |
Prof. Jim Walsh
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| Date Deposited: |
25 Jul 2019 13:02 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Irish Geography |
| Publisher: |
Taylor & Francis |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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