Common Agricultural Policy

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  • Created on: 06-05-14 19:35
What are the aims of the CAP?
To increase farm productivity and Yield. Ensure fair living standards to farmers. Ensure food availability (Food security). Stabilize markets. Provide reasonably priced food.
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Strategies to increase food production (before 1992 reform)
Subsidies, Quotas, Import Tariffs, Intervention prices
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Strategies to limit food production (Environmental Stewardship)
Set-aside: Paying farmers to not use certain land for production. Direct Grants: Payments from the government, to keep farmer welfare due to limitations.
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Subsidies
Payments given to farmers to focus their efforts on certain products/crops
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Quotas
Is a limitation on the quantity of a particular product
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Import Tariffs
Tax imposed on certain imports to the EU.
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Intervention prices
Guaranteed prices for each commodity
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Advantages to CAP
Environmental conservation (after 1992) increase productivity, increase self sufficiency, increase local incomes, increase food security (reliance on imports low), slower rate of rural depopulation.
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Disadvantages to CAP
Huge stock surplus (when supply>demand) increased prices, intensive farming (loss hedge rows, species decline,)
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Strategies to increase food production (before 1992 reform)

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Subsidies, Quotas, Import Tariffs, Intervention prices

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Strategies to limit food production (Environmental Stewardship)

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Subsidies

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Quotas

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