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© 2024 The Authors. Sociologia Ruralis published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of European Society for Rural Sociology. In this article, we examine how the European Union (EU) acts as an international organisation, developing policies to be implemented by national governments. We focus on agriculture and gender equality. We examine the relationship between the EU and Member States regarding the construction and delivery of policies. It is a complex process, with differential levels of power and other actors in the process, notably lobby groups. We examine how agricultural policies and gender equality policies are developed. We examine the 2014–2020 Rural Development Regulation and carried out research in four member states. Interviews were undertaken with people who have experience of implementing the Common Agricultural Policy measures at a national level. We find the power of key players to be very strong in the agricultural context and weak in the gender context. When the two fields are ‘married’, we find there is little scope or interest to advance gender equality measures in agricultural policy.
Author(s): Shortall S, Marangudakis V
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Sociologia Ruralis
Year: 2024
Pages: Epub ahead of print
Online publication date: 23/02/2024
Acceptance date: 02/02/2024
Date deposited: 19/03/2024
ISSN (print): 0038-0199
ISSN (electronic): 1467-9523
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc.
URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12475
DOI: 10.1111/soru.12475
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