Roberts, Dr John Esmond, (born 29 June 1951), Deputy Director (part time), Common Agricultural Policy Direct Payments, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 2011–15; Secretary, Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, 2009–11

2008 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Common Agricultural Policy ◽  
Deputy Director ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Direct Payments

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 The controversial device of price support has largely been replaced by direct payments to producers.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 Exploring the distribution of direct payments of the Common Agricultural Policy

Empirica ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franz Sinabell ◽  
Erwin Schmid ◽  
Markus F. Hofreither
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Common Agricultural Policy ◽  
The Common ◽  
Direct Payments

scholarly journals The Effects Of The Distribution Of Agricultural Direct Payments

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 25-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose Luis Alfaro-Navarro ◽  
Jose Mondejar-Jimenez ◽  
Manuel Vargas-Vargas ◽  
Juan Carlos Gazquez-Abad ◽  
Jose Felipe Jimenez- Guerrero
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Common Agricultural Policy ◽  
Concentration Index ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Agrarian Economy ◽  
The Common ◽  
Direct Payments ◽  
Common Policy

The Common Agricultural Policy (the CAP) is the most important common policy of the European Union, for which reason it traditionally monopolizes a large part of the European Union budget. Without doubt, the aids that farms receive from this policy are the pillar on which it sustains the battered agricultural sectors. Among CAP aid, direct payments are particularly important, in 2008 accounting for about 37% of the total EU budget. The main objective of this paper is to analyse the effects that the distribution of the CAP direct payments have on the agrarian economy. Specifically, we have analysed the equality level in distribution of CAP direct aid in the countries of the European Union using a concentration index. In this way, we have examined the fairness of distribution of CAP direct aid in the agricultural sector.

scholarly journals Resilience in agriculture: how can cap direct payments impact it?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agne Zickiene ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Common Agricultural Policy ◽  
Crop Insurance ◽  
Direct Payment ◽  
Direct Payments ◽  
Agricultural Resilience ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Attitudes And Behavior ◽  
Eu Support ◽  
The Eu

The increasing frequency and magnitude of adverse meteorological events together with the growing uncertainty in the upcoming future pose more and more challenges to agriculture. Therefore, the future sustainability of agriculture will increasingly depend on its resilience, i.e. the capacity to withstand various perturbations and to recover from them. The direct payment (DP) system of the EU Common agricultural policy (CAP) is the most financed EU support scheme for agriculture; however, research on its impact on the important phenomena of resilience is scarce and fragmented. In order to fill this gap, this paper offers an extensive overview of literature and a summarized list of factors that are mentioned most often as potentially influencing the agricultural resilience. Based on this, the possible impact of DP on agricultural resilience was analyzed. In this paper, it is argued that this impact is transferred mostly through changing farms’ financial capabilities as well as farmers’ attitudes and behavior, and is both positive and negative. Such phenomena as low crop insurance uptake and decrease in productivity may be due to the overcrowding effects of direct payments. These hypotheses are being tested in a survey, conducted in the meantime.

scholarly journals El modelo de ayudas directas en la PAC post-2013: análisis de impactos de escenarios potenciales

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 83 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Blanco Fonseca ◽  
Sol García-Germán Trujeda ◽  
Isabel Bardají
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Common Agricultural Policy ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Agricultural Markets ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Member States ◽  
The Common ◽  
Direct Payments ◽  
Redistributive Effects ◽  
The Eu

<p>Following their introduction in 1992,direct payments have become one of the main instruments of the Common Agricultural Policy. The aim of this study is to analyse potential scenarios of harmonization of direct payments in the CAP post-2013. In doing so, we use the CAPRI model, which represents the functioning of agricultural markets at the global level and simultaneously models CAP measures at the EU regional level. Results suggest that while a flatter rate of direct payments would have minor impacts on agriculture at the EU level, it would imply substantial redistributive effects, both across regions and Member States.</p>

German Farmers’ Perspectives on Direct Payments in the Common Agricultural Policy

EuroChoices ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marius Michels ◽  
Johannes Möllmann ◽  
Oliver Musshoff
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Common Agricultural Policy ◽  
The Common ◽  
Direct Payments

The Mac Sharry Plan and integration of EU policy on agriculture and nature conservation

1996 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 195-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kees J. Canters
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Common Agricultural Policy ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Common ◽  
Oriented Approach

Over the past few decades the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union (EU) has resulted in major surpluses of agricultural products. However, it has also resulted in severe environmental pollution and degradation. For these reasons, in the early 1990s, the CAP was reformed by means of the Mac Sharry Plan (MSP) (Commission of the EC 1991). This Plan aims to: 1) reduce agricultural surpluses and expenses, 2) adopt a more market-oriented approach, 3) keep a sufficient number of farmers in the countryside, and 4) render agriculture more benign to nature and the environment. The last of these aims has not yet been adequately elaborated in the MSP and it is uncertain whether the adopted measures will really lead to less agricultural pressure on nature and the environment.

Instrumenty wsparcia bezpośredniego dla rolnictwa po 2020 r.

2019 ◽  
Vol 78 ◽  
pp. 116-135
Author(s):  
Tomasz Drabik
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Common Agricultural Policy ◽  
Agricultural Producers ◽  
Direct Support ◽  
Legislative Proposals ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
Direct Payments ◽  
Polish Government

The aim of this study is to present the instruments of direct support after 2020. The article presents the history of direct payments since their establishment in 1992 to today’s model of direct support that agricultural producers receive. The study also presents the position of the Polish Government regarding legislative proposals of the Common Agricultural Policy after 2020.

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