10/11/2011
This background briefing for the Greening Europe Forum’s Autumn 2011 roundtable “The Future of Farming” focuses on two essential dimensions of the Commission’s recent reform proposals for a Common Agricultural Policy from 2014: ecological sustainability and social equality. The authors believe the current round of reforms will be mainly a debate between the EU institutions and member states on the size and division of the CAP’s post-2013 budget, instead of a comprehensive new policy design reflecting the fundamentally different political and economic context of food and farming policy in the 21st century.
This briefing consists of contributions from 3 independent think-tanks: Ecosocial Forum Europe, headed by former European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Franz Fischler; the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP); and Friends of Europe’s Greening Europe Forum.
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