Download or read book The Common Agricultural Policy and the Environmental Challenge written by Pavlos D. Pezaros and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy written by Brian Jack and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental integration has become a core objective for the EU under Article 11 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU. Since the introduction of this obligation by the Single European Act In 1987, the challenge has been to address the environmental issues associated with intensive agriculture, whilst also supporting the environmental benefits produced through more extensive farming methods. However, the effective integration of environmental measures remains elusive with key challenges still remaining in areas such as soil erosion, water quality and quantity and the protection of biodiversity. Against the background of European environmental law and policy, this paper examines the role that the developing reform proposals will play in continuing the process of integrating environmental protection requirements into the Common Agricultural Policy, paying particular attention to cross compliance and the proposed greening component in pillar one of the CAP and the effectiveness of the agri-environment and natural handicap schemes within rural development policy under pillar two. The paper concludes that present CAP reform proposals represent a further opportunity to achieve the effective integration of environmental protection measures into the CAP.

Download or read book Environmental Policy Integration written by Andrea Lenschow and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Understanding the Common Agricultural Policy written by Berkeley Hill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The majority of recent publications on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union address current issues and specific applications. There is little available which attempts to increase understanding of the nature of existing policies, their development, intentions, problems and successes. The aim of this book is to improve knowledge and understanding of the ‘policy process’ and its application to the CAP, focussing on the principles of policy analysis. For while the details of agricultural and environmental policies evolve, the principles upon which they are based endure. The author uses economics as a basis for his exploration, as fairly simple economics holds the key to understanding many of the fundamental pressures to which agriculture and rural areas are subject. He explains the importance of the political and administrative context in which the process occurs, acknowledging the influence of environmental and sociological concerns. Such knowledge of the conceptual framework of the ‘policy process’ and its application to the CAP is essential for all concerned with agriculture and rural livelihoods, both within the European Union and in those countries trading with the EU. This includes both students and professionals. The book provides an understanding of these principles in terms of how and why policy changes, thus increasing the efficiency and efficacy of the process.

Download or read book The Common Agricultural Policy and Organic Farming written by Kennet Lynggaard and published by CABI. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Common Agricultural Policy and Organic Farming covers how ideational change came about to enhance the understanding of change within the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and to plan and implement change in European agriculture policy. The contents cover institutional change within the CAP and focus on the institutional construction policy concerned with organic farming.

Download or read book The Common Agricultural Policy written by Wyn Grant and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1997-06-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Common Agricultural Policy written by Rosemary Fennell and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Common Agricultural Policy: Continuity and Change is a major retrospective analysis of the CAP since its inception, set against the background of agricultural policy in Western Europe since the end of the Second World War. The topics covered include the development of the CAP, inparticular the early dominance of the market policy contrary to the original intention; the struggle to introduce a structural policy and its subsequent unsatisfactory record; the uneasy relationship between market policy and trade policy; the question of agricultural incomes; and the broadening ofpolicy horizons since the mid-1980s, particularly to include environmental issues.The book concludes with a discussion of some unresolved issues, including the role and appropriateness of a sectoral policy in today's circumstances.

Download or read book Overcoming Agricultural Pollution of Water written by Susanne M. Scheierling and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Bank Technical Paper No. 269. Water problems are emerging as the most compelling set of issues facing agricultural production in the 1990s. To address the policy challenges posed by this dilemma, this study focuses on the experience of the Eu

Download or read book The Common Agricultural Policy written by Grace Skogstad and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is a unique agricultural policy worldwide. For many years, its status as the only common European Community (EC) policy governed by EC institutions put it at the heart of European integration. Today the CAP is not the only common European Union (EU) policy. Even while it remains the sole instance of a regionally integrated agricultural policy, the CAP no longer embodies the same degree of cross-national harmonization of agricultural policy among EC/EU member states that it once did. The CAP has undergone policy reforms in the past two decades and these reforms have spawned a host of questions. What has caused the CAP to reform? How path-breaking are CAP reforms? Are they consistent with founding CAP goals or do they encompass new ideas about agriculture’s place in the economy and society? And what are the consequences of agricultural policy reforms: for European farmers, consumers and taxpayers; for European ‘public goods’ such as environmental sustainability and preservation of rural communities and landscapes; and for third parties outside the EU, including the WTO? This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Integration.

Download or read book Transforming Food and Agricultural Policy written by Carsten Daugbjerg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western democratic welfare states often featured sectoral governance arrangements where governments negotiated policy with sectoral elites, based on shared ideas and exclusive institutional arrangements. Food and agriculture policy is widely considered an extreme case of compartmentalized and ‘exceptionalist’ policy-making, where sector-specific policy ideas and institutions provide privileged access for sectoral interest groups and generate policies that benefit their members. In the last two decades, policy exceptionalism has been under pressure from internationalization of policy-making, increasing interlinkage of policy areas and trends towards self-regulation, liberalization and performance-based policies. This book introduces the concept of ‘post-exceptionalism’ to characterize an incomplete transformation of exceptionalist policies and politics which preserves significant exceptionalist features. Post-exceptional constellations of ideas, institutions, interests and policies can be complementary and stable, or tense and unstable. Food and agriculture policy serves as an example to illustrate an incomplete transformation towards a more open, contested and networked politics. Chapters on agricultural policy-making in the European Union and the United States, the politics of food in Germany and the United Kingdom, transnational organic standard setting and global food security debates demonstrate how ‘postexceptionalism’ helps to understand the co-existence of transformation and path dependency in contemporary public policies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

Download or read book Agriculture and World Trade Liberalisation written by M. R. Redclift and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of free trade on the environment and the employment of environmental policies as non-tariff protectionist policies are topics which are currently receiving a great deal of attention. Proponents of freer trade insist that, by leading to higher growth rates and per capita incomes, trade increases the demand for environmental quality and helps poor countries escape the poverty-generated pollution trap. The purpose of this book is to discuss the current and future issues surrounding agriculture and its relationship to trade, sustainability and the environment. It is based on selected papers from an international conference entitled "European Agriculture at the Crossroads: Competition and Sustainability" held in Crete in 1996, and further updated with the European Commission's Agenda 2000 in mind. Written by leading authorities from Europe and the USA, this book is essential reading for researchers and policy makers in agricultural economics, rural sociology, the environment and European studies

Download or read book The Agri environmental Policy of the European Union written by Karl Bruckmeier and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2002 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrating environmental aims in the agricultural policy of the European Union was a main aim of the 1992 CAP-reform. This book presents a study of the socio-economic framing conditions as well as the attitudes and orientations within the agricultural population towards the European agri-environmental policy. It is based on a research project in three member countries, France, Germany, and Portugal, where more than 600 farmers have been interviewed. The results indicate that a change towards more ecologically sustainable forms of agricultural production requires much broader political and social support to grow beyond the dimensions of a marginal green subsector of agriculture.

Download or read book Problems arising from the Common Agricultural Policy written by Kenân Özkara and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2006-04-12 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Economics - International Economic Relations, grade: 2,0, Leuven Catholic University, course: Institutions and Policy of the European Union, language: English, abstract: Das wirtschaftliche Zusammenwachsen innerhalb der Europäischen Union (EU) der letzten Jahrzehnte sowie die Verwirklichung des europäischen Binnenmarktes im Jahr 1993 zwangen sowohl die Mitgliedstaaten als auch die Unternehmen, sich neuen Herausforderungen zu stellen. Durch die Öffnung der nationalen Märkte sahen und sehen sich die Staaten und ihre heimischen Unternehmen einem steigenden Wettbewerbsdruck gegenüber, den sie mitunter mit unrechtmäßigen Mitteln zu unterlaufen versuchen: Wettbewerbsbeschränkende Absprachen zwischen Unternehmen auf der einen Seite und staatliche Maßnahmen auf der anderen Seite vermögen den Wettbewerb gleichermaßen zu beeinflussen. Um die kompetitiven Marktstrukturen aufrechtzuerhalten, bedient sich die EU daher zweier Instrumente: Während die im Jahre 1990 erlassene europäische Fusionskontrollverordnung Wettbewerbsverfälschungen auf Unternehmensebene effektiv entgegenzuwirken versucht, regelt und überwacht die Beihilfenkontrolle die Beihilfenvergabe durch die Mitgliedstaaten. Gegenstand dieser Hausarbeit wird eine nähere Untersuchung und kritische Betrachtung der Beihilfenkontrolle der EU sein. Einführend wird in Kapitel 2 zunächst der zentrale Gegenstand der Beihilfenkontrolle - sprich die Beihilfe - genauer betrachtet, bevor in gebotener Kürze ein Überblick über mögliche Vor-und Nachteile der Vergabe gegeben wird. Gegenstand des dritten Kapitels ist die Beihilfenkontrolle durch die Europäische Kommission. Zunächst werden die Zielsetzungen sowie die Kriterien für die Rechtmäßigkeit einer Beihilfe dargestellt. Daraufhin sollen kurz das Verfahren der Beihilfenkontrolle sowie die rechtlichen Schranken skizziert werden, wobei weniger einzelne Details besprochen als vielmehr die Grundzüge aufgezeigt werden. In Kapitel 4 erfolgt eine kritische Betrachtung der Beihilfenkontrolle und ihrer wichtigsten Problemfelder. Dabei werden zunächst die Überlastung der Kommission sowie die unzureichende Transparenz sowohl auf Seiten der Mitgliedstaaten als auch auf Seiten der Kommission betrachtet. Anschließend wird die Dimension politischer Zielkonflikte dargestellt, wobei auch ein kurzer Blick auf politökonomische Aspekte erfolgt. In einem letzten Punkt wird die Problematik unterschiedlicher wettbewerbstheoretischer Leitbilder innerhalb der EU und ihre Bedeutung für die Beihilfenkontrolle aufgezeigt, bevor in Kapitel 5 abschließend ein kurzes Fazit aus den vorangegangenen Überlegungen gezogen wird.

Download or read book Environmental Protection in the Common Agricultural Policy written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Environmental Co operation and Institutional Change written by Konrad Hagedorn and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The book is well-written and makes a significant contribution to the development of the principles and practices of dealing with agri-environmental problems. It is of relevance to a wide circle of readers, including researchers and politicians but also students and others concerned with agri-environmental issues.' - Stefanie Engel and Ulrike Grote, Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture '. . . the book has the potential to provide something for everyone.' - Stefan Bäckmann, European Review of Agricultural Economics Although the history of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is dominated by a process of centralisation, growing pressures to integrate agri-environmental problems into the CAP have revealed the need to embrace decentralised approaches in an efficient federal structure. Indeed, in recent years it has become increasingly evident that the agricultural sector must undergo fundamental changes in order to enter an era of sustainable development.

Download or read book The Common Agricultural Policy CAP The historic development and current challenges written by and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject Agrarian Studies, grade: 1,0, University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart, language: English, abstract: This paper deals with the following questions: What is the significance of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)? How did the CAP develop in the course of time and which milestones left their mark on the regulations of today’s policy? What are the current problems and which challenges does the CAP have to respond to in the future? How will the development continue? As a researcher the topic is of great interest as it concerns every European tax payer, the environmental change depends in certain aspects on the policy of the CAP as well as the quality of the European agricultural products. It’s a prevalent topic which not every citizen is fully aware of and whose effects should be examined more in detail. Agriculture has many important needs to satisfy in the population and to ensure a wide range of social tasks: food production, production of biomass for power generation and material use, design and maintenance of cultural landscapes and biotopes, determination of animal welfare or the impact on social and economic structures. In order to promote these societal tasks of agriculture, the politics should set the framework in such a way that the economic activity of the farmers fulfills common welfare purposes at the same time. This is done by specifying duties as well as by creating incentives. In this regard the CAP of the European Union (=EU) has a great influence. In this context the time has come again for the EU commission to set the Multiannual Financial Framework (=MFF) for the period from 2021 to 2027. One of the biggest expenditures with about 54 billion euros a year is the CAP which is nowadays hardly criticised for promoting poverty and food security in developing countries through European subsidies. Interventions related to the agricultural policy cause a dilemma due to the fundamental conflict of interest between producers and consumers. On the one hand, the abolishment of the CAP apparently does not have a lot of negative consequences – according to the Joint Research Centre of the European commission the consequential decline of the agricultural production would be insignificant. On the other hand, the CAP does not have a lot of effects that harm its development, but a danger is prevalent that it might fall back into old patterns by e.g. using payments coupled to the production.

Download or read book The European Union s Common Agricultural Policy Reforms written by Marko Lovec and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book engages in the controversies of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reforms, demonstrating how these are reiterated by mainstream theoretical approaches in the field. The reforms that the European Union’s CAP underwent during the last three decades were intended to make it less trade-distorting, more taxpayer-friendly and more able to meet the new challenges of environmental concerns and rural development/territorial cohesion. The outcome of the reforms has, however, contradicted these objectives, with the controversies being reiterated by the mainstream theoretical approaches in the field. European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy Reforms argues that these controversies are due to reductionist, rationalist and idealist assumptions with regard to the object of inquiry applied by mainstream approaches. It proposes an alternative critical approach that takes into account the role of real material factors. Critical realism is not just an alternative explanation of CAP reforms but an alternative theory of how explanations can be made, which enables readers to reflect upon and endorse the results of existing lines of research in proceeding towards deeper level theory.