April 20, 2011
The farm lobby’s supporters in the European Parliament are clearly determined on only minimal adjustments to the common agricultural policy in return for guarantees of the continuation of the €55 billion a year largesse from the taxpayer. Deliberations in the Agriculture Committee indicate strongly that MEPs will not support the Commission’s very modest plans for… » read more
Posted by Brian Gardner
April 12, 2011
If governments pay subsidies on or protect a productive process then it is inevitable that the price of the factors involved in that production will rise. In the case of agriculture the most obvious example is the effect of subsidies on the price of land. In their most extreme form, subsidy systems have the effect… » read more
Posted by Brian Gardner
April 6, 2011
It is now generally accepted that if an expected world population of 9+ billion by 2050 is to be adequately fed, world food production has to be massively increased. Estimates vary on how much, the actual figure depending on the extent that growth in the ‘emergent’ economies triggers a switch to a more animal product… » read more
Posted by Brian Gardner
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Commentary on European developments from the perspective of long term professional interest in European and international trade, agriculture and food policy, nurtured over three decades spent in Brussels observing and analysing the development of the CAP.
