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Archives for agricultural productivity

COULD CAP REFORM STIMULATE GREATER FARM OUTPUT?

January 22, 2013

According to defenders of an unreformed European agriculture policy, current plans to harmonise and restrict EU farm income payments are likely to threaten viability of the agriculture industry and restrict output. Such an effect would, it is argued, pose a serious threat to the ability of the EU farm industry to improve both EU and… » read more

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CAP Reform, Economy & Euro

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WHY WORRY ABOUT AGING FARMING POPULATION

January 11, 2013

Agricultural policy makers in the European Union tend to devote a lot of energy to worrying about the aging of the agricultural population. While this trend undoubtedly has important implications for the social structure and economic health of Europe’s remoter areas, in the longer term it may not be the problem as currently conceived. There… » read more

Posted by Brian Gardner

Environment, Sustainable Dev.

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Brian Gardner's Blog

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.

Post Brexit, new relationships between the UK and the EU and the UK and the rest of the world are a major pre-occupation. My book ‘European Agriculture: Policies, Production and Trade’ is a distillation of this experience. More recently, my analysis of the politics and technicalities of feeding 9 billion people by the mid-century is  ‘Global Food Futures – Feeding the world in 2050’, published by Bloomsbury. I continue to observe European  policy as it copes with the challenges of UK isolationism, Europe-US challenges, trade liberalisation, climate change and other environmental problems. My assessment of the realities for UK agriculture after 2020 are  set out in a recent report for Agra Europe: Preparing for Brexit.


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