Since the end of the second World War, the landscapes of the US Corn Belt have
increasingly been dominated by large-scale, industrialized agricultural production. Although …

Research on social networks has become a significant area of investigation in the social
sciences, and social network concepts and tools are widely employed across many …

This paper analyses the factors influencing public expenditure on the EU's Risk
Management Toolkit comparing six types of regional-level spatial autoregressive models …

The past few years have witnessed the emergence of new actors and ideas in agri-food
politics discussed under the heading 'post-exceptionalism'. Yet our knowledge about which …

Support for financial risk management tools (SFFRMT) has become part of many agricultural
policy portfolios in response to new risks or to replace traditional income support. This paper …

Fossil fuel companies hold enormous political, economic, and knowledge production power.
Recently, industry operators have pivoted from pushing climate denialism to campaigns …

Farm animal welfare is becoming a subject of politicization strategies. The conflicting policy
preferences are pronounced in the United States, with its large and highly intensified …

This paper develops the concept of policy regime decay to examine what happens when the
political foundations of public policies break down. Policy regime decay consists of an …

Historical evidence shows that environmental issues have been secondary to United States'
agricultural policy since the first farm bill in 1933. The farm sector has undergone massive …

The idealisation of rural work, people, and communities is remarkably persistent in Western
countries. With the diminishing role of agriculture in national economies and changing …