title: Introduction: Greening the countryside? Changing frameworks of EU agricultural policy.
abstract: In response to wide-ranging criticism of agricultural policy, especially within Western industrialized countries, new frameworks of justification are emerging and new hybrid policy fields have been established to tackle some of the ‘externalities’ of agricultural support. However, institutional frameworks are proving slower to change, partly because this would require coordinated action across different levels of governance. Nevertheless, previously marginalized environmental concerns have successfully gained entrance to agricultural policy networks, while the intersection of trade liberalization and rural diversification have undermined the dominance of the productivist mindset in government. This gives rise to a plurality of policy actors and actions which defy the conventional categories of analysis of agricultural policy, calling for changing frameworks on the polity of agriculture too.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Rural Economy, School of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
authors.forename: Philip
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lowe
authors.forename: Peter H
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Feindt
authors.forename: Hilkka
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Vihinen
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture / Q000191:economics / Q000193:education / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D003132:Commerce / Q000191:economics / Q000193:education / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D005062:European Union / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history; D006078:Government Programs / Q000191:economics / Q000193:education / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D011634:Public Health / Q000191:economics / Q000193:education / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D011640:Public Policy / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D012922:Social Change / Q000266:history; D012946:Social Welfare / Q000191:economics / Q000208:ethnology / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology