Author : Erik Jones
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 36,37 MB
Release : 2012-08-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0199546282
The Oxford Handbook of the European Union brings together numerous acknowledged specialists in their field to provide a comprehensive and clear assessment of the nature, evolution, workings, and impact of European integration.
Author : Andrea Lenschow
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 35,44 MB
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1136566449
Integrating environmental policies into the policies of all other sectors is the core European environmental policy. But there has been no thorough investigation of the political process involved. This volume provides the first. It analyses the process of policy integration - the greening of public policy - across the relevant sectors and countries. It finds significant variation from sector to sector and from country to country, and analyses the reasons for this. (Surprisingly the UK, traditionally the 'dirty man' of Europe is far more actively engaged than environmental 'progressives' such as Germany.) It identifies the obstacles to integration and offers solutions for policy formulation, decision making and implementation at the relevant political levels.
Author : Johan F. M. Swinnen
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,96 MB
Release : 2015
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 9781783484843
This book is the first to document the reform of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and to analyse the political and economic factors which determined the outcome of the negotiations. The policy (non-)reform will affect the world's global food security and agricultural ...
Author : Wyn Grant
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 35,87 MB
Release : 1997-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1349257311
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the Common Agricultural Policy which imposes high costs on taxpayers and consumers yet has proved very difficult to reform. Particular emphasis is placed on new developments affecting the shape of the CAP, including the outcome of the GATT Uruguay Round negotiations, Eastern enlargement, and developments in environmental policy. A distinctive feature of the book is the attention given to situating European agriculture within its global context and in relation to the food processing and agricultural supply industries.
Author : G. S. Bhalla, Jean-Luc Racine, Frédéric Landy
Publisher : Les Editions de la MSH
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 14,91 MB
Release : 2008-05-05
Category :
ISBN : 2735113787
The volume offers to the reader a multi-faceted dialogue between noted experts from two major agricultural countries, both founding members of the Word Trade Organisation, each one with different stakes in the great globalisation game. After providing the recent historical background of agricultural policies in India and France, the contributors address burning issues related to market and regulation, food security and food safety, the expected benefits from the WTO and the genuine problems raised by the new forms of international trade in agriculture, including the sensitive question of intellectual property rights in bio-technologies. This informed volume underlines the necessity of moving beyond the North-South divide, in order to address the real challenges of the future.
Author : Pavel Ciaian
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,43 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789290799634
Since 2005, the European Union has provided farmers with subsidies that are not linked directly to production of specific crops, through the single payment scheme (SPS), as part of reforms to its common agricultural policy. This book investigates to what extent the SPS has led to the capitalization of support into land values in the EU. Economic theory and empirical findings suggest that the way in which agricultural support is provided to farmers has an influence on land markets. Subsidies tend to become capitalized into land values to some degree, affecting both the sales and rental prices of land. These effects in turn have a bearing on the transfer efficiency of the support and structural change in agriculture. Drawing from a combination of data sources, 11 country and 18 regional studies, this extensive empirical analysis offers preliminary findings of the reaction of EU land markets and asset values to the changes in EU policy.
Author : Kateryna Zelenska
Publisher : Nijhoff International Trade La
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 10,34 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789004353688
Economic aspects of state support measures (subsidies) with specific consideration of agriculture -- Introduction to agricultural policies in Ukraine -- External factors with influence on Ukrainian grain policies -- Subsidy definition : international approaches in regulation -- The EU practice on agricultural support -- Interplay between state support for grain in Ukraine and international trade commitments -- Export measures for foodstuffs : rationale, forms, and impact -- Final conclusions
Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 25,32 MB
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9251318751
Considering the detrimental environmental impact of current food systems, and the concerns raised about their sustainability, there is an urgent need to promote diets that are healthy and have low environmental impacts. These diets also need to be socio-culturally acceptable and economically accessible for all. Acknowledging the existence of diverging views on the concepts of sustainable diets and healthy diets, countries have requested guidance from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) on what constitutes sustainable healthy diets. These guiding principles take a holistic approach to diets; they consider international nutrition recommendations; the environmental cost of food production and consumption; and the adaptability to local social, cultural and economic contexts. This publication aims to support the efforts of countries as they work to transform food systems to deliver on sustainable healthy diets, contributing to the achievement of the SDGs at country level, especially Goals 1 (No Poverty), 2 (Zero Hunger), 3 (Good Health and Well-Being), 4 (Quality Education), 5 (Gender Equality) and 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production) and 13 (Climate Action).
Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 12,58 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780215045508
The European Commission proposes that 30% of 'direct payments' made to farmers under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) would be conditional on compliance with three new 'greening' measures. While supporting the Commission's desire to improve the environment, the EFRA Committee rejects the approach proposed. Instead it calls for the EU to set high-level objectives for the CAP that provide for flexibility to apply the right measures for local conditions through 'decentralising' environmental protection under the CAP to Member States. This report highlights the huge benefit that UK 'agri-environment' schemes have brought to biodiversity, food production and the countryside. The Committee also urged Defra to ensure that the UK's tenant farmers should not be excluded from these schemes. The Committee concludes that Defra must ensure the balance of funding between mandatory and voluntary aspects of the CAP should not leave UK farmers at a competitive disadvantage relative to their counterparts in the rest of Europe. MPs also warn that measures proposed by the Commission would be even more complex than the current system - adding costly bureaucracy and generating more errors in the system. Likewise, the committee concludes that the Commission's crop diversification measure would in the UK have perverse consequences that are far less environmentally beneficial than crop rotation. Of the three 'greening' measures offered, the Commission's proposal for Ecological Focus Areas (EFA) has the potential to deliver the greatest environmental benefit. However, the lack of definitions within the proposals make it difficult to assess what, if any, such benefits would actually be delivered
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 19,30 MB
Release : 2020-06-30
Category :
ISBN : 9264748210
This annual report monitors and evaluates agricultural policies spanning all six continents, including the 36 OECD countries, the five non-OECD EU Member States, and 13 emerging economies.
