22. The Common Agricultural Policy

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ève Fouilleux ◽  
Matthieu Ansaloni
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Common Agricultural Policy ◽  
European Policy ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Equity Issues ◽  
The Common ◽  
The 1960S

This chapter focuses on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which has long been of symbolic importance to the European integration process. The CAP, which came into force from 1962, is based on three general principles: market unity, Community preference, and financial solidarity. The chapter first considers the early days of CAP and the issue of CAP reform before discussing the policy's objectives, instruments, actors, and debates. It then explains the evolution of the CAP since the 1960s and asks why the CAP has been so problematic for European policy-makers, why CAP has been so resistant to change, and how CAP reform has come about. This chapter also examines some of the challenges facing agricultural policy, as new debates emerge among citizens on the place and the functions performed by agriculture. Particular attention is given to rural development and environmental, transparency, and equity issues.

24. The Common Agricultural Policy

2019 ◽  
pp. 358-372
Author(s):  
Ève Fouilleux ◽  
Matthieu Ansaloni
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Common Agricultural Policy ◽  
European Policy ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Equity Issues ◽  
European Policies ◽  
The Common ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Way

This chapter examines one of the first European policies, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). It does so by focusing on the policy’s objectives, instruments, actors, and debates. It looks at the way in which the CAP has evolved since the 1960s, and attempts to explain this evolution by asking and answering a number of important questions: why has the CAP been so problematic for European policy-makers? Why has it proven so resistant to change? And, given the constraints identified, how has reform come about? This chapter also looks at some of the challenges facing agricultural policy, as new debates emerge among citizens on the place and the functions performed by agriculture. The chapter grants particular attention to rural development, and environmental, transparency, and equity issues.

8. The Common Agricultural Policy The Fortress Challenged

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christilla Roederer-Rynning
Keyword(s):  
Support System ◽  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Common Agricultural Policy ◽  
Price Support ◽  
Tariff Protection ◽  
Market Intervention ◽  
The Common ◽  
Direct Payments ◽  
High Tariff ◽  
The 1960S

This chapter examines the processes that make up the European Union’s common agricultural policy (CAP), with particular emphasis on how the Community method functions in agriculture and how it upheld for decades the walls of fortress CAP. Today’s CAP bears little resemblance to the system of the 1960s, except for comparatively high tariff protection. The controversial device of price support has largely been replaced by direct payments to producers. The chapter first provides an overview of the origins of CAP before discussing two variants of the Community method in agriculture: hegemonic intergovernmentalism and competitive intergovernmentalism. It argues that the challenge for CAP regulators today is not to prevent a hypothetical comeback to the price-support system or generalized market intervention, but to prevent the fragmentation of the single market through a muddled implementation of greening and the consolidation of uneven regimes of support among member states.

scholarly journals The analysis of proposals of the Common Agricultural Policy reform and its impacts for the EU

2012 ◽  
Vol 49 (No. 6) ◽  
pp. 278-283
Author(s):  
M. Vosejpková
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Common Agricultural Policy ◽  
Potato Starch ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
The Common ◽  
Agricultural Policy Reform ◽  
Market Needs ◽  
The Eu

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is of the character of a highly protective policy of the EU Member States. It includes a number of measures distorting the market directly and influences the farmers’ incomes depending on their production. There have been two reforms of the CAP so far and the third one is prepared with intention to come into force from 2006; it is called Mid-Term Review (MTR). This reform is concentrated on keeping and increasing consumers’ credibility and shifting to more competitive agriculture more orientated on market needs. The main Reform proposals include horizontal issues, i.e. Decoupling, Modulation/Degressivity, Cross-compliance, Farm Advisory System, IASC, Rural Development, and market issues concern dairy, cereals, rye, durum wheat, dried fodder, potato starch, seeds, nuts, rice, set-aside, carbon credit, beef. Besides the above mentioned goals, it is necessary to ensure conditions for rural development together with demands on environmental protection and improvement, so-called second pillar of the CAP. The attempt of cross-sectional summary and analysis of the MTR impacts for the EU was made in the article based on results of six studies performed by universities and DG AGRI in Brussels.

scholarly journals Analysis of the Common Agricultural Policy financial subsidies impact in all EU countries

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 223-229
Author(s):  
N. Galluzzo
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Common Agricultural Policy ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Main Role ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Impact

This study has investigated by a quantitative approach the impact of financial subsidies allocated by the Common Agricultural Policy to European farms; the aim was to assess also the linkages among financial supports allocated by the Common Agricultural Policy and rural development by proposing a briefly definition of a rurality index. METHODS: In this research, it has used two quantitative approaches as the Self-Organizing Maps and the Partial Least Square Structural Equation Model (PLS-SEM) over two different years such as 2007 and 2017 in a sample of farms belonging to the Farm Accountancy Data Network dataset. RESULTS: Findings have emphasized the impact and the main role of financial subsidies in stimulating rural growth even if there are also lots of unbalances between EU states. CONCLUSIONS: The role of the public administrations at a local level should be addressed towards a strictly severe task to condense main priorities of rural development and the needs of the rural population in specific and pilot initiatives.

8. The Common Agricultural Policy

2020 ◽  
pp. 182-207
Author(s):  
Christilla Roederer-Rynning
Keyword(s):  
Support System ◽  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Common Agricultural Policy ◽  
Price Support ◽  
Tariff Protection ◽  
Market Intervention ◽  
The Common ◽  
Direct Payments ◽  
High Tariff ◽  
The 1960S

This chapter examines the processes that make up the European Union’s common agricultural policy (CAP), with particular emphasis on how the Community method functions in agriculture and how it upheld for decades the walls of fortress CAP. Today’s CAP bears little resemblance to the system of the 1960s, except for comparatively high tariff protection. The controversial device of price support has largely been replaced by direct payments to producers. The chapter first provides an overview of the origins of CAP before discussing two variants of the Community method in agriculture: hegemonic intergovernmentalism and competitive intergovernmentalism. It argues that the challenge for CAP regulators today is not to prevent a hypothetical comeback to the price-support system or generalized market intervention, but to prevent the fragmentation of the single market through a muddled implementation of greening and the consolidation of uneven regimes of support among member states.

scholarly journals Productivism and Post-Productivism in the Olive Groves of Southern Spain

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Domingo Sánchez Martínez ◽  
Antonio Garrido Almonacid
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Common Agricultural Policy ◽  
Common Market ◽  
Southern Spain ◽  
Planning Period ◽  
Olive Groves ◽  
The Common ◽  
Corporate Concentration ◽  
The Moment

Abstract This work examines changes in the cultivation of olive groves in the region of Andalusia since the accession of Spain to the European Common Market (1986). The first phase is marked by the triumph of productivism in which some of the basic elements of this model (specialisation and intensification) are overwhelming, according to the statistical sources used for this research, although the behaviour in terms of corporate concentration can be considered unique. Also notable, as we will explain later, are other less desirable effects of the process, which can currently be considered environmentally unsustainable. As the weaknesses and contradictions of the model have become evident, in the recent years - as a result of the new stimuli provided by the Common Agricultural Policy - more attention is paid to the opportunities offered by rural development. For the moment, the results of this approach have been limited, although the 2015-2020 planning period could be decisive for its reorientation.

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