Educational qualifications of UK farmers: a review

Journal of Rural Studies

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 487-498

  Gasson, Ruth ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; FARMERS KNOWLEDGE; REGIONAL PATTERN;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0032192856     PISSN: 07430167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0743-0167(98)00028-X     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Bryden, J., Bell, C., Gilliat, J., Hawkins, E. & Mckinnon, N. (1993) Farm Household Adjustment in Western Europe 1987-91. Commission of the European Communities, Brussels.
2. Agriculture EDC (1972) Agricultural Manpower in England and Wales. HMSO, London.
3. ATB-Landbase (1996a) Education and Training Survey for Agriculture and Commercial Horticulture. ATB-Landbase, NAC Kenilworth.
4. ATB-Landbase (1996b) Labour Market and Training Needs in Agriculture and Commercial Horticulture. ATB-Landbase, NAC Kenilworth.
5. Bryden, J. (1997) Restructuring from below: farm household adjustments in Europe, 1981-91. In: Bor, W. van den, Bryden, J., Fuller, A., Rethinking Rural Human Resource Development. Wageningen Agricultural University, Wageningen, pp. 73-113.
6. Corcoran, K. and Dent, B. (1994) Education and extension: a perpetuating paradigm for success. In: Dent, J., McGregor, M., Rural and Farming Systems Analysis: European Perspectives. CAB International, Abingdon, UK, pp. 255-266.
7. Costley, A., John, A. and Greener, J. (1996) Lifelong Learning in the Landbased Industries. Harper Adams Agricultural College, Newport, Salop.
8. Curry, N. (1994) Research Project relating to Environmental Skills. Main Report. ATB-Landbase, NAC Kenilworth.
9. Curry, N. (1995) The Environmental Content of Landbased Skills Acquisition: A Response to Industry Needs? Main Report. ATB-Landbase, NAC Kenilworth.
10. Edwards, A., Gasson, R., Haynes, J. and Hill, P. (1994) Socio-economic Evaluation of the Capital Grant Element of the Farm Diversification Grant Scheme. Wye College Farm Business Unit, Occasional Paper No. 22.
11. Errington, A. and Tranter, R. (1991) Getting out of Farming? Reading University Farm Management Unit, Study No. 27.
12. Fearne, A. and Ritson, C. (1989) Communications in Agriculture, Vols I and II. Newcastle University Department of Agricultural Economics and Food Marketing.
13. Gasson, R. (1988) The Economics of Part-time Farming. Longman, Harlow.
14. Gasson, R. (1989) Financial Management Training for Farmers Report prepared for ATB, unpublished.
15. Gasson, R. (1997) Educational Attainment Levels of Farmers. Wye College Press.
16. Gasson, R. and Hill, P. (1990) An Economic Evaluation of the Farm Woodland Scheme. Wye College Department of Agricultural Economics.
17. Gasson, R. and Winter, M. (1993) Entry to farming. Farm Management 8, 253-262.
18. Jones, G. (1963) The diffusion of agricultural innovations. Journal of Agricultural Economics 15, 387-409.
19. Kilpatrick, S. (1996) Training Australia's farm workforce: implications for profitability. Paper presented to NCVER Research Conference, Launceston, Tasmania, July.
20. Moss, J. (1993) Pluriactivity and survival? A study of family farms in Northern Ireland. Paper presented at Reading University, CAS/SFA Symposium. Crisis on the Family Farm: Ethics or Economics?
21. Natwest (1992) The NatWest National Farm Survey: Summary Report and Tables. National Westminster Bank, Agricultural Office, Coventry, UK.
22. Newby, H., Bell, C., Rose, D. and Saunders, P. (1978) Property, Paternalism and Power. Hutchinson, London.
23. Office of Population Censuses and Surveys/General Register Office Scotland, (1976) Census 1971 Great Britain: Qualified Manpower. HMSO, London.
24. Office of Population Censuses and Surveys/General Register Office Scotland, (1984) Census 1981: Qualified Manpower Great Britain. HMSO, London.
25. Office of Population Censuses and Surveys/General Register Office Scotland, (1994) 1991 Census Qualified Manpower Great Britain. HMSO, London.
26. Statistical Office of the European Communities, (1978) Community Survey on the Structure of Agricultural Holdings 1975. SOEC, Luxembourg.
27. Warren, M. (1989) Farming change in Devon and Cornwall. The Implications for Training and Advice. Polytechnic South West Seale-Hayne, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Land Use, Newton Abbot.
28. Warren, M. and Hoggard, F. (1990) Farming change, advice and training. Agricultural Manpower 1(17), 2-13.
29. Winter, M. (1997) New policies and new skills: agricultural change and technology transfer. Inaugural lecture, Cheltenham and Gloucester College Countryside and Community Research Unit.
30. Winter, M. and Gaskell, P. (1998) The effects of the 1992 reform of the Common Agricultural Policy on the countryside of Great Britain. Final Report. Cheltenham and Gloucester College, Countryside and Community Research Unit.
31. Winter, M., Gasson, R., Curry, N., Selman, P. and Short, C. (1996) Socio-economic Evaluation of Free Conservation Advice provided to Farmers in England by ADAS and FWAG. Cheltenham and Gloucester College, Countryside and Community Research Unit, Rural Research Monograph Series No. 1.