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Constructing Reform: Economic Expertise and the Governing of Agricultural Change in Australia

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posted on 2023-05-22, 07:56 authored by Vaughan HigginsVaughan Higgins
The productivity and efficiency of farmers in both Australia and other Western nations has assumed increasing significance on the formal political agenda since the 1960s. Economic changes at both the international and national level have raised questions among economists, farm organisations and state agencies concerning the capacity of some farmers to be able to earn an adequate income, and thereby contribute to national agricultural output and efficiency. While these concerns have contributed to policies of farm subsidisation in Europe, Britain and the United States, Australia has taken a somewhat different path. Farm reconstruction and adjustment programs were created from the early-1970s that sought to 'restructure' the farm sector by encouraging so-called 'unviable' farmers to exit the industry while providing incentives for remaining producers to improve their productivity. such policies arguing that intervention in assisting processes of 'adjustment' makes agricultural resources available for those farmers who will use them in the most efficient manner, while ensuring also that the welfare needs of unviable farmers are met. The aim of this book is to explore the events, techniques and forms of calculation through which economic expertise in Australia has come to assume increased authority on matters of agricultural change, and the consequences of this for how strategies of 'restructuring' are assembled as objects of knowledge.

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Pagination

193

ISBN

1590336046

Department/School

School of Social Sciences

Publisher

Nova Science Publishers

Place of publication

New York

Rights statement

Copyright 2002 Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

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  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Control of pests, diseases and exotic species in terrestrial environments

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