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100 1 _aCOCKFIELD, Geoff.
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245 1 0 _aRural adjustments schemes :
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260 _aOxford :
_bBlackwell Publishers Limited,
_cJune 2006
520 3 _aThe Commonwealth government has offered support to farmers in the form of structural or business adjustment-type schemes since the Loan (Farmers Debt Adjustment) Acts of 1935–1971. Since 1971, a series of more comprehensive rural reconstruction/adjustment schemes with a range of objectives from debt alleviation to encouraging some exits from agricultural industries, has been in place. While having little direct impact on the structure of these industries, the various schemes have been politically important and an indicator of how core values relating to agricultural production and rural life have changed. A review of the schemes shows an increasing focus on improving farm productivity and sustainability, accompanied by a discourse emphasising the need to promote the 'farm business', rather than to protect the 'family farm'. On the other hand, governments have also used these schemes to deliver 'welfare' outputs
700 1 _aBOTTERILL, Linda
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773 0 8 _tAustralian Journal of Public Administration
_g65, 2, p. 70-82
_dOxford : Blackwell Publishers Limited, June 2006
_xISSN 0313-6647
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999 _aConvertido do Formato PHL
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