@article{Latruffe:207987,
      recid = {207987},
      author = {Latruffe, Laure and Dupuy, Aurélia and Desjeux, Yann},
      title = {What would farmers’ strategies be in a no-CAP situation?  An illustration from France},
      address = {2012},
      number = {913-2016-72288},
      series = {12-02},
      pages = {22},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {This article investigates how French farmers could react  if the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) were fully  suppressed, based on a survey of intentions of 295 farmers  carried out in 2009. The farmers surveyed were  beneficiaries of CAP subsidies in 2008, and were therefore  mostly specialised in field cropping and grazing livestock.  Respondents had to indicate their ten-year strategy in two  CAP scenarios: firstly in a “CAP continuation scenario”,  and secondly in a “No CAP scenario” where the CAP is fully  removed from 2014 onwards. Although for the majority of  respondents there would be no change in their intentions if  the CAP were suppressed, about 19 percent would intend to  stop their farming activity and would prefer to close their  farm, while they would maintain the farm if the CAP were  continued. A disappearance of the CAP would imply that  off-farm employment would be more frequently sought after  by farm households. Hired labour would not be the first  choice to replace household labour on the farms but instead  farmers would resort to outsourcing, which is a more  flexible labour force. The results show the crucial role of  the CAP in French farmers’ existence and highlight the  importance of the CAP for the rural labour market.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/207987},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.207987},
}