The purpose of this evaluation is to provide policy-makers and managers of the Commission’s relevant external co-operation Services as well as other relevant DGs (such as DG Trade and DG Environment), and the EC Delegations in Chisinau and Kiev, with an independent assessment of the EC...

In dem Papier werden die Reformbeschlüsse zur europäischen Agrarpolitik vom Juni 2003 diskutiert. Im Mittelpunkt der Beschlüsse steht die Entkoppelung der Prämienzahlungen von der Produktion. Damit werden Produktionsanreize für die Landwirte abgebaut und es dürfte zu einer...

The paper discusses the decisions on the CAP in the context of the Berlin summit. In a rather broad perspective the agricultural sectoral and related objectives are analyzed for their consistency and compatability with higher ranking societal objectives. The policies' allocational and...

Organic farming practices have environmental benefits compared to conventional ones. Their adoption is the result of a complex interaction of intrinsic attitudes of farmers, their profit expectations and farm policy incentives. We use an agricultural sector model and develop an extended version...