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467: Social Impacts of Change in Agriculture - Spring Conference 1st March 2007

Report of an Arthur Rank Centre conference

Year of Publication2007

There is huge concern among farmers about ‘top down stuff’ - regulations they cannot understand the reasons for, a lottery for getting funding for projects and distant decision making which does not understand the real situation as they see it. There is a need to put more resources into walking farmers through change and for more local empowerment through schemes like LEADER+.

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