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Simone STERLY, Roel JONGENEEL, Holger PABST, Huib SILVIS , POLICY DEPARTMENT
with contributions from Jeff CONNOR STRUCTURAL AND COHESION POLICIES
(Australia), David FRESHWATER (US), Mikitaro SHOBAYASHI
(Japan), Yukio KINOSHITA (Japan), Cornelis VAN KOOTEN
(Canada), and Alexander ZORN (Switzerland)
Lessons for the
future Common
Agricultural Policy
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L009141
IP/B/AGRI/IC/2018-032
A comparative analysis
PE 629.183 December 2018
of global agricultural
policies

A study commissioned by the Committee

for Agriculture and Rural Development
 MAIN
CONCLUSIONS
The EU has in several respects obtained an
advanced position in agricultural policy by
pursuing a comprehensive set of policy
goals and the availability of a rich set of
instruments.
The EU could still learn from other
countries, particularly to achieve farm
income resilience through risk
management tools and to achieve climate
and other environmental objectives.
Risk retention measures represent
savings and could be further considered
for adoption in the CAP, as both in the
current and the proposed CAP
precautionary savings measures are
absent.
Long-term support and contracts for
environmental and nature conservation
measures could be beneficial to the EU to
achieve its biodiversity, environmental and
climate objectives.
Implementation of rural development
instruments based on multi-functionality
payments would provide financial
assistance to local groups consisting of
farmers and other rural actors for the costs
concomitant with preserving agricultural
and commonly managed resources.
ABSTRACT FOCUS ON
The study aims to show how the future The characteristics of the agricultural sector vary
CAP can, in the medium to long term, widely from country to country but the main
challenges are broadly similar: lagging farm
learn from the level and nature of incomes, increasing resource constraints and
assistance to agriculture in third environmental concerns, plus a rapidly
countries. increasing demand for food in the future. In
order to meet these challenges, economic
viability and resource use efficiency of the sector
Against the background of the main require continuing attention. Major changes
trends in agricultural support as well as have been made to the content of agricultural
recent changes and new initiatives in policies with regard to environmental aspects,
global agricultural policies, an in-depth especially through regulations and requirements
analysis is made of selected instruments for land management; climate change action is
expected to receive increasing priority in the
in five countries (Australia, Canada, Japan, future.
Switzerland, US).
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