The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union has been in a process of reform since the early 1990s. As a result of reforms, agricultural market regulations have become more liberal and direct payments have been introduced which are to a large extent decoupled from production. In...

After an extended process of reform the European Union has introduced direct payments tofarmers which are decoupled from production decisions as a central element of its CommonAgricultural Policy. They are also referred to as Single Farm Payments. In this paper weanalyze the production and trade...

This paper has benefited greatly from a discussion of an earlier version with the participantsof the first Humboldt Forum for Food and Agriculture in Davos, Switzerland in March 2009.Research has been made possible in part by a research grant from BASF SE – The ChemicalCompany. The first two...

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union has been in a process of reform since the early 1990s. As a result of reforms, agricultural market regulations have become more liberal and direct payments have been introduced which are to a large extent decoupled from production. In...

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union has been in a process of reform since the early 1990s. As a result of reforms, agricultural market regulations have become more liberal and direct payments have been introduced which are to a large extent decoupled from production. In...

Agriculture in many industrialized countries is heavily subsidized.1 The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union provides subsidies in a variety of ways. They include agricultural producer price support (by means of import restrictions, export subsidies, domestic production...

Es wird heute kaum noch ernsthaft bezweifelt, dasssich das globale Klima verändert und dass die Ursachenhierfür vor allem anthropogener Natur sind.Gerade die Energiewirtschaft und der Transportsektorsind als Hauptverursacher in das breite Interesse derÖffentlichkeit gerückt. Den Emissionen...