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Resilience and vulnerability in US farm policy: parsing the payment limitation debate

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  • Larry Burmeister

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Since the New Deal era, the commodity title has been the major farm support program in US farm bills. Commodity programs have encouraged farmers to pursue specialized, monocultural, and input intensive production strategies that are increasingly viewed as unsustainable. Yet commodity programs remain politically resilient. As revealed in the farm payment limitation debate in the 2007 farm bill reauthorization process, political support for commodity programs is maintained through policy elasticity adaptations that combine new with old policy rationales. The recent extension of farm program support to producers of commodities that have not received benefits in the past poses a potential threat to existing commodity programs, as this legislation has institutionalized competition within production agriculture over the allocation and design of subsidies. This paper argues for renewed attention to the policy support mechanisms that undergird the conventional agrifood system in order to better understand alternative agrifood system possibilities and constraints. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008

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  • Larry Burmeister, 2008. "Resilience and vulnerability in US farm policy: parsing the payment limitation debate," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 25(2), pages 183-186, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:agrhuv:v:25:y:2008:i:2:p:183-186
    DOI: 10.1007/s10460-008-9126-0
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