Abstract
AbstractThis chapter highlights three themes that can be found in the literature regarding the purpose of decoupled payments. Sometimes decoupled payments have been advocated as compensation for the removal of price or income support policies. Other authors, while advocating reform of existing price and income support policies, have suggested that these policies need to be replaced by decoupled income support payments that would be primarily beneficial to low-income farmers. A more recent idea is that farmers, as custodians of the countryside, should receive payments that are decoupled from the production of crops and livestock, but paid to reward them for the provision of non-marketable benefits that the rest of the society values.
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