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Values and the agricultural crisis: Differential problems, solutions, and value constraints

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  • Cornelia Flora

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Policies are set by governments in an attempt to bring about desired ends within a society. These ends are often vaguely put and phrased in terms of values. Agrarianism, as a value, has been used to justify current farm policy. Yet, that policy has also been used as a mechanism to solve a variety of problems for the United States: those of the rural sector, farmers themselves, and even the land upon which they farm. This paper tries to separate the problems that are part of the farm crisis and to show how policies designed to solve one of the problems for one set of actors, and frequently defended in the name of agrarianism, may actually exacerbate the problems for other actors. An overarching value, however, that may further inhibit problem solution and lead us further into an expensive and ineffectual farm program is the basic value that planning is somehow bad. Agrarianism and the value of spontaneity underlie some of the current decision-making or lack thereof in the farm program. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1986

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  • Cornelia Flora, 1986. "Values and the agricultural crisis: Differential problems, solutions, and value constraints," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 3(4), pages 16-23, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:agrhuv:v:3:y:1986:i:4:p:16-23
    DOI: 10.1007/BF01535481
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    1. Thomas Daniels, 1989. "A rationale for the support of the medium-sized family farm," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 6(4), pages 47-53, September.

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