The imbalances in bargaining power between the contracting parties in the food supply chain have drawn much scholarly attention but have also been closely examined by policy makers. The European Commission is committed to facilitate the restructuring of the agricultural sector by encouraging the...

Bei der Gestaltung von Agrarumweltprogrammen (AUP) spielen sowohl landwirtschaftlicheals auch umweltrelevante Ziele eine Rolle. Es ist also nahe liegend, in die Gestaltung vonPolitikmaßnahmen im Agrarumweltbereich auch die davon betroffenen Gruppen einzubeziehen.Allerdings haben Umwelt- und...

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...