Agricultural primary production is extensively influenced by policies and regulation. On the level of European Union the common agricultural policy (CAP), frames the production environment. This study analyses the conflict of environmental and income policies in the context of CAP reform,...

The article examines the market and welfare effects of the current CAP reform and further policy options on the EU dairy market. The main focus is the influence of unstable world markets and the uncertainty it generates in policy analysis which has been widely neglected. The simulations of a...

This paper studies the role of animal welfare (AW) institutionally and for large scale retail and its value in consolidating trust between institutions-taxpayers and large scale retail-consumers. The first section analyses AW in the new CAP and current strategies of retail with regard to...

The major objective of this paper is to examine the association between agricultural subsidies and farm efficiency using data from the European Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) for operations specializing on dairy. The analysis covers the 18 year period going from 1990 to 2007 and includes...

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The aim of this contribution is to examine how the French and theGerman positions on agricultural policy have developed since thefoundation of the EEC and what the driving forces were behind. The“general consensus” underlying the EEC treaty, and according towhich the common market would be...

As agricultural policy reform and its effects have become increasingly territorialised, analyseswhich attempt to explain or predict impacts need to be more localised but also identify spillovereffects. In addition to the predictions of policy shocks predicted by sectoral partialequilibrium...

Literature on innovation adoption mechanism has emphasised the positive effect of Single FarmPayments (SFP) and Rural Development Payments on adoption of new technologies. In thiscontext, the expected process of CAP reforming after 2013 is likely to strengthen the role ofinnovation in the...

This paper analyses the effects of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) on gross transfers over time and across regions. Depending on the type of instrumentation to support agriculture, the volatility of gross transfers differs. While assistance arising from market price supports, regarded as...