The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) needs fundamental reform. Every year, € 57 billion – more than 40% of the EU budget – are spent without creating significant value for society.
In the future, European money should promote European public goods. This will allow us to better protect our climate and the environment, improve animal welfare and enhance economic efficiency.
This webpage is a resource for all those interested in CAP reform: politicians, civil servants, NGO activists, journalists and citizens. The aim is to foster a better understanding of what is at stake and how to shape the future CAP.
The editor is Valentin Zahrnt. He is an economist at ECIPE, the European Centre for International Political Economy.
A wake-up call for policy-makers to thoroughly reform the CAP. All European agricultural economists are invited to sign this declaration on-line.
17.02.2011
Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel, Professor at the University of Göttingen, says that models are like maps: they are never entirely realistic but help us find the way. In the case of the post-2013 CAP, the reform path does not even depend on the traditional models because the main issue is not greater market orientation.
28.01.2011
Jean-Marc Boussard is a former director of the French agricultural research institute INRA and highly experienced in models of agriculture that incorporate uncertainty. Reacting to the recent ‘Guide to the CAP reform politics’, he raises important questions about what economists really know about agriculture and what kind of recommendations they can give with sufficient certainty. Readers are welcome to contribute short comments or longer responses (1-3 pages) in this debate that will be posted on this blog.
27.01.2011
Valentin Zahrnt (ECIPE), 2011.
19.01.2011
On 13 January, Dacian Cioloş gave testimony to the UK Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee on CAP reform. Here is what he said.
Food Security and the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy: Facts Against Fears
Valentin Zahrnt, ECIPE, 2011
Assessing the Impacts of Rural Development Policies
Rural Development Impacts, 2010
Scenar 2020-II – Update of scenario study on agriculture and the rural world
Nowicki, P. et. al., 2010
The 2007/08 Agricultural Price Spikes: Causes and Policy Implications
UK Government, 2010
Provision of public goods through agriculture in the European Union
IEEP, 2009
UK Food Security Assessment: Detailed Analysis
Defra, 2009
La Politique Agricole Commune : horizon 2014
Bruno Henry de Frahan et Rembert De Blander
Für eine zeitgemäße Gemeinsame Agrarpolitik (GAP)
Sachverständigenrat für Umweltfragen (SRU), 2009
EU-Agrarpolitik nach 2013
Wissenschaftlicher Beirat für Agrarpolitik, 2010