Category: General posts
10.11.2010
The French Ministry for the Environment has spectacularly broken ranks with the Ministry of Agriculture by publishing its own vision ‘For a sustainable agricultural policy in 2013’. The 17-page document does not beat about the bush: it calls for a radical overhaul and gives numbers.
Category: General posts
23.10.2010
In late 2009, leading agricultural economists from all over Europe issued a declaration on ‘A Common Agricultural Policy for European Public Goods’. They proposed the abolition of market intervention and blanket income support to farmers, and outlined a more efficient, greener CAP.
Category: General posts
19.10.2010
On October 19, the European Commission has finally released its conclusions on the budget review originally due for 2008/09. It compares poorly to the draft document that leaked quite exactly one year earlier.
Category: General posts
10.10.2010
The communication from DG Agri that prepares the CAP community for the legislative proposal next summer and which aims to channel the debate has leaked.
Category: General posts
09.10.2010
Berkeley Hill, Professor Emeritus of Policy Analysis at the University of London, discusses four exit strategies: simple expiration of the SFP in 2013, replacement by a transitory income support scheme, additional rural development measures to promote restructuring, and a bond scheme.
Category: Studies
27.09.2010
Rural Development Impacts (2010)
Category: Studies
27.09.2010
Claire Schaffnit-Chatterjee, DB Research (2010)
Category: Studies
26.07.2010
Bielza et al. (2009)
Category: Studies
13.07.2010
Jongeneel et al. (2007) and Jongeneel et al. (2008)
Category: General posts
25.06.2010
The fragmentary evidence that is available suggests that, far from being a disadvantaged sector of society, EU farm households as a group have relatively high incomes compared to the rest of society. But the EU has abandoned earlier efforts to produce regular statistics of farm households’ total income – though this would be feasible at reasonable costs. Perhaps it is the fear of the light that worries the EU agricultural policymakers, writes Berkeley Hill, Professor Emeritus of Policy Analysis at the University of London.