Young women farm heads in Greek agriculture: entering farming through policy incentives
Abstract This work examines the entry of young Greek women into farming as heads of farmholdings under the relevant EU and national framework of incentives. The work is based on the analysis of available secondary information and mail-survey data secured from a sample of 128 young women established in farming during the period 1991–2000 in the region of Thessaly, Central Greece. Their responses to the system of incentives are examined initially as a whole group and then separately by focusing on two typological polar opposites, that is those women that are entering farming as a lifestyle and those entering for reasons of necessity. There is documentation of young women farmers’ use of the incentives and benefits derived there from and their assumption of a certain share in the decision-making power vis-a-vis their farmholding, the last-mentioned especially when the two typological groups are considered.
Young women's attitudes towards agriculture and women's new roles in the greek countryside: A first approach
Abstract In recent years the employment situation in urban areas has deteriorated, particularly for women, while in countryside new kinds of work are being promoted in the framework of endogenous development. The purpose of the present article in the light of these conditions is to examine the attitude of young women to employment in farming and the prospect of living in a farming household, as well as their attitude to the new roles that are emerging for farm women. The data are derived from field research in four communities, having been obtained by means of a personal questionnaire addressed to all the unmarried women between 18 and 30 who live in them. The findings indicate that the girls' attitude to farm employment remains extremely negative. Their orientations in relation to work and place of residence are characterized by strong inclinations to emigrate to urban or semi-urban areas. Their attitude to the prospect of having a farmer for a husband is more flexible, but only on certain conditions. The new roles that are promoted for women in the agricultural sector are perceived as low income occupations, which can be seen only as a temporary expedient, acceptable as an answer to the employment problem only until such time as a better solution can be found.
Farm poverty in France during the 1980s
Les AA. posent la question de savoir si, en utilisant la notion economique de pauvrete relative, la pauvrete en milieu agricole apparait encore significative pour la France dans les annees 1980. Ils montrent que des facteurs d'appauvrisssement sont intervenus dans le monde agricole. Mesurer la pauvrete agricole est un processus difficile. De ce fait les AA. isolent deux symptomes de ce type de precarite : une consommation par tete faible, de nombreuses femmes refusent d'epouser des agriculteurs possedant de petites ou de moyennes exploitations