In this paper the process of income diversification in agriculture is analysed. In the first part we discuss how the decline of the productivist approach and the emergence of new development trajectories have contributed to widen the range of strategies implemented by farms to reverse income...

In this paper we offer some reflections on the Cap reform process, starting from analysis of the objectives and the solidity of its two financial pillars. In the first part of the paper agricultural expenditure is re-classified on the basis of major Cap intervention typologies, showing how a...

At the 1996 World Food Summit it was agreed to promote triangular food aid operations in order to fight world hunger. Looking into the criteria of effectiveness, efficiency and transparency, in this paper it is argued that the Objective has some theoretical justification, but both triangular and...

and-grabbing is provoking intense debate because of its potential environmental and socio-economic impacts. This article aims to provide an analysis of the linkages between land acquisitions and water-resource exploitation, focusing on the Nile River Basin as a case study. The relative abundance...

The article offers a short history of agricultural policies throughout the 20th Century. Searching out the roots and underlying motivations for Public Intervention in agriculture, opens the way to look ahead. In the past we can find the lessons we need to picture the future with imagination in a...

This work offers a comparative analysis of the national logos for organic foods which are hallmarks of public brands created in France, Denmark, Austria, Finland, the Czech Republic, Germany and Spain. The aim of this work is to investigate the communicative effectiveness of these brands...

This paper focuses on evolution in tax policy for the agricultural sector with some suggestions for sound and rational reform of the sector in a context of strong budget constraints. The share of tax measures in overall public support for the primary sector is assessed, with reference to the...

Greening the CAP: The Way Forward This paper reviews the debate up to June 2012 on the proposal to introduce a green payment in Pillar 1 of the Cap following the publication of the Commission’s legislative proposals for the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy post-2013 in October 2011. While...

This paper details profound agrarian restructurings related to new agricultural investment models. These models, promoted by macro-actors such as banking corporations; investment funds; asset management companies and agricultural engineering companies, often foreign to the agricultural sector,...

Considering that risk management can improve the competitiveness of agricultural enterprises, since 2009 the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has introduced measures to support certain risk management tools, including agricultural insurance. The recent CAP reform proposals suggest shifting them...