PLURIACTIVITY, FARM STRUCTURES AND RURAL CHANGE
探讨了欧洲政策制定者为何关注农场家庭多活动性，并与英国对农场多样化的关注进行比较，指出英国政策忽视非农收入机会，强调应关注农场家庭策略而非活动形式，并提供了德文和格兰扁地区的初步实证结果。
This paper begins by looking at some of the reasons why farm household pluriactivity, although long‐standing, has now become a phenomenon of interest to European policymakers. This European concern is then compared with the current interest of UK policymakers and academics in the related concept of farm diversification. In many respects, UK policies differ significantly from those in the rest of Europe, most notably in their neglect of off‐farm income‐earning opportunities, and the reasons for this are discussed. Furthermore, it is argued that a preoccupation with forms of diversification or pluriactivity is likely to be less helpful analytically than a focus on underlying farm business and farm household strategies. Finally, some preliminary results of empirical work in Devon and Grampian are presented which suggest that farm household strategies may be at variance with prior expectations in some respects.