IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/lauspo/v69y2017icp298-306.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

How did post-2000 agricultural policy changes in Turkey affect farmers? – A focus group evaluation

Author

Listed:
  • Ates, Hacer Celik
  • Yilmaz, Hasan
  • Demircan, Vecdi
  • Gul, Mevlut
  • Ozturk, Erdogan
  • Kart, Murside Çagla Ormeci

Abstract

The aim of this study is to provide an analysis on how producers have been affected by the decisions made in 2000 in the agricultural sector. Data collected from the focus group discussions was compared to the agricultural policy effects on Antalya Burdur and Isparta provinces. The participants were primarily selected from a list of state institutions and organizations, and included representatives from cooperatives and producer organizations that are engaged in the agricultural sector and/or bring service to rural areas. The discussion revealed that small-scale farmers were unable to use the support provided by the policies; as a consequence, many of them were unable to cultivate their land and had to migrate. In general, the participants stated that significant social and economic changes did occur in rural areas, however they emphasized that these changes were to the detriment of small-scale farmers and instead favored farmers operating on large scale.

Suggested Citation

  • Ates, Hacer Celik & Yilmaz, Hasan & Demircan, Vecdi & Gul, Mevlut & Ozturk, Erdogan & Kart, Murside Çagla Ormeci, 2017. "How did post-2000 agricultural policy changes in Turkey affect farmers? – A focus group evaluation," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 69(C), pages 298-306.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:lauspo:v:69:y:2017:i:c:p:298-306
    DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.09.029
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837717304635
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.09.029?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Ruoyan Zhang & Ru Chen, 2023. "The regulatory effect of cooperation degree in increasing tobacco farmers’ income by mitigating production risk shocks," Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 94(4), pages 1323-1344, December.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:lauspo:v:69:y:2017:i:c:p:298-306. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Joice Jiang (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/land-use-policy .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.