The Common Agricultural Policy

The Common Agricultural Policy
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 9781349257317
ISBN-13 : 1349257311
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis The Common Agricultural Policy by : Wyn Grant

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the Common Agricultural Policy which imposes high costs on taxpayers and consumers yet has proved very difficult to reform. Particular emphasis is placed on new developments affecting the shape of the CAP, including the outcome of the GATT Uruguay Round negotiations, Eastern enlargement, and developments in environmental policy. A distinctive feature of the book is the attention given to situating European agriculture within its global context and in relation to the food processing and agricultural supply industries.

The Political Economy of the 2014-2020 Common Agricultural Policy

The Political Economy of the 2014-2020 Common Agricultural Policy
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1783484845
ISBN-13 : 9781783484843
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis The Political Economy of the 2014-2020 Common Agricultural Policy by : Johan F. M. Swinnen

This book is the first to document the reform of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and to analyse the political and economic factors which determined the outcome of the negotiations. The policy (non-)reform will affect the world's global food security and agricultural ...

The Oxford Handbook of the European Union

The Oxford Handbook of the European Union
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 924
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ISBN-10 : 9780199546282
ISBN-13 : 0199546282
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of the European Union by : Erik Jones

The Oxford Handbook of the European Union brings together numerous acknowledged specialists in their field to provide a comprehensive and clear assessment of the nature, evolution, workings, and impact of European integration.

EU Land Markets and the Common Agricultural Policy

EU Land Markets and the Common Agricultural Policy
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 9290799633
ISBN-13 : 9789290799634
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis EU Land Markets and the Common Agricultural Policy by : Pavel Ciaian

Since 2005, the European Union has provided farmers with subsidies that are not linked directly to production of specific crops, through the single payment scheme (SPS), as part of reforms to its common agricultural policy. This book investigates to what extent the SPS has led to the capitalization of support into land values in the EU. Economic theory and empirical findings suggest that the way in which agricultural support is provided to farmers has an influence on land markets. Subsidies tend to become capitalized into land values to some degree, affecting both the sales and rental prices of land. These effects in turn have a bearing on the transfer efficiency of the support and structural change in agriculture. Drawing from a combination of data sources, 11 country and 18 regional studies, this extensive empirical analysis offers preliminary findings of the reaction of EU land markets and asset values to the changes in EU policy.

Understanding the Common Agricultural Policy

Understanding the Common Agricultural Policy
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1844077780
ISBN-13 : 9781844077786
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis Understanding the Common Agricultural Policy by : Berkeley Hill

First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Farmers on Welfare

Farmers on Welfare
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 365
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ISBN-10 : 9780801457654
ISBN-13 : 0801457653
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis Farmers on Welfare by : Ann-Christina L. Knudsen

In 2007 the farm subsidies of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy took over 40 percent of the entire EU budget. How did a sector of diminishing social and economic importance manage to maintain such political prominence? The conventional answer focuses on the negotiations among the member states of the European Community from 1958 onwards. That story holds that the political priority, given to the CAP, as well as its long-term stability, resides in a basic devil's bargain between French agriculture and German industry. In Farmers on Welfare, a landmark new account of the making of the single largest European policy ever, Ann-Christina L. Knudsen suggests that this accepted narrative is rather too neat. In particular, she argues, it neglects how a broad agreement was made in the 1960s that related to national welfare state policies aiming to improve incomes for farmers. Drawing on extensive archival research from a variety of political actors across the Community, she illustrates how and why this supranational farm regime was created in the 1960s, and also provides us with a detailed narrative history of how national and European administrations gradually learned about this kind of cooperation.By tracing how the farm welfare objective was gradually implemented in other common policies, Knudsen offers an alternative account of European integration history.

EU Agricultural Law and Policy

EU Agricultural Law and Policy
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Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages : 297
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ISBN-10 : 9781781002551
ISBN-13 : 178100255X
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis EU Agricultural Law and Policy by : Joseph A. McMahon

Following an introductory discussion of the Treaty provisions on agriculture, this illuminating work examines the four regulations that currently govern the Common Agricultural Policy in the areas of Direct Payments, Rural Development, Finance, and the Common Organisation of the markets and considers their interpretation by the European Courts. It concludes with an astute assessment of the proposals for further reform, which will give Member States greater discretion in fine-tuning the principles of the policy established at European level to the particular characteristics of their agricultural sector.

Agriculture and The World Trade Organisation

Agriculture and The World Trade Organisation
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Publisher : Les Editions de la MSH
Total Pages : 324
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ISBN-10 : 9782735113781
ISBN-13 : 2735113787
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis Agriculture and The World Trade Organisation by : G. S. Bhalla, Jean-Luc Racine, Frédéric Landy

The volume offers to the reader a multi-faceted dialogue between noted experts from two major agricultural countries, both founding members of the Word Trade Organisation, each one with different stakes in the great globalisation game. After providing the recent historical background of agricultural policies in India and France, the contributors address burning issues related to market and regulation, food security and food safety, the expected benefits from the WTO and the genuine problems raised by the new forms of international trade in agriculture, including the sensitive question of intellectual property rights in bio-technologies. This informed volume underlines the necessity of moving beyond the North-South divide, in order to address the real challenges of the future.

Environmental Policy Integration

Environmental Policy Integration
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 251
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ISBN-10 : 9781136566448
ISBN-13 : 1136566449
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis Environmental Policy Integration by : Andrea Lenschow

Integrating environmental policies into the policies of all other sectors is the core European environmental policy. But there has been no thorough investigation of the political process involved. This volume provides the first. It analyses the process of policy integration - the greening of public policy - across the relevant sectors and countries. It finds significant variation from sector to sector and from country to country, and analyses the reasons for this. (Surprisingly the UK, traditionally the 'dirty man' of Europe is far more actively engaged than environmental 'progressives' such as Germany.) It identifies the obstacles to integration and offers solutions for policy formulation, decision making and implementation at the relevant political levels.

EU Agricultural Law

EU Agricultural Law
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 9041132805
ISBN-13 : 9789041132802
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis EU Agricultural Law by : Jens Hartig Danielsen

The European Union's common agricultural policy is without question the most economically significant policy area in EU law, as well as the area in which Union regulation has been implemented most consistently and intensely. This book contends that today, considering this comprehensive regulation of issues that are of prime economic importance - and the rich case law that this EU policy has generated - EU agricultural law cannot be treated as an isolated discipline, but must be seen in the context of general Union law. The author first deeply explores in an unprecedented way what is meant by the expressions 'agriculture', 'agricultural activity', and 'agricultural producer' found in current EU legislation, and goes on to provide a detailed legal analysis in contexts from Member States to the World Trade Organization. In the course of the presentation he examines the following, among much else: the principle of unified markets or common prices; structural funds for promoting regional agricultural development; encouragement of local strategies based on partnership and experience-sharing networks; environmentally friendly agricultural measures; the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD); whether a person or undertaking produces agricultural products or processes them; food safety measures; animal welfare; agricultural training and research; ensuring a fair standard of living for the agricultural community; interventions concerning storage or production limitation; State aid schemes; marketing standards; geographical indications; trade with third countries; support for improving the environment and the countryside; payment of aid pursuant to the single payment scheme; and WTO rules on domestic support measures, import duties and restrictions, and exports. As a full-length, in-depth analysis of EU agricultural law, this book has no peers. It is sure to be welcomed not only by legal academics, but by all who are professionally engaged in dealing with issues of Union agricultural law, whether lawyers, professional interest groups, or administrative authorities.