disparity in agricultural incomes

income differential

income disparity [ income differential ]

farm income stabilization insurance

Economic overview of farm incomes, 1996 [ An economic overview of farm incomes by farm type | Agricultural financial statistics ]

viable food production, with a focus on agricultural income, agricultural productivity and price stability.

However, despite this progress, the rise in socio-economic indicators has led to income disparities, employment creation has declined in many countries, the benefits of growth are unequally distributed and the institutional weaknesses, natural disasters and weakness of the infrastructures continue to hamper development.

In many fast-growing middle-income countries, technological change, globalisation, demography and demand for skilled labour have contributed to the widening of the income distribution gap, because growth has not been accompanied by an effective fiscal, pro-poor policy agenda.

in the medium and long term, consumers appreciate products of a consistently high quality; the advertising of quality control schemes which aim to achieve consistently high quality standards is likely to promote consumer confidence in Community agricultural production, improve farm incomes and thus promote the development of the sector as a whole moreover, quality products clearly have specific characteristics which are not shared by other similar products; advertising of these characteristics will not mislead the consumer and is also likely to contribute to the development of the sector; for those reasons, instead of being spread on ...[+++]the basis of a set of positive criteria as in the past, support should be focused on advertising campaigns in favour of quality products defined as products fulfilling the criteria established pursuant to Article 32 of Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005.