Semi-Subsistence Farming: An Elusive Concept Posing Thorny Policy Questions
研究了欧盟东扩后半自给农场扩张带来的挑战，包括低收入、贫困、土地和劳动力利用不足等问题，并探讨了共同农业政策如何通过商业化支持和环境补贴来应对。
The massive expansion of semi-subsistence farming in the EU after the Eastern enlargements poses a real challenge to rural development. The problems of semi- subsistence farms are low cash incomes and incidence of poverty, sub-optimal use of land and labour, a lack of capital and poor contribution to rural growth. However, they play an important welfare function in some rural areas in Europe; they manage more than eleven million hectares of agricultural land and deliver ecosystem services. The Common Agricultural Policy will have to accommodate this now widespread production system, through existing or new policy packages. Particularly important is support for commercialisation to incentivise and smooth the transition to commercial agriculture, and agri-environmental payments to compensate the semi-subsistence farmers for the provision of ecosystem services.