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9780415085335

European Agriculture: Policies, Production and Trade

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415085335

  • ISBN10:

    0415085330

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 1996-11-06
  • Publisher: Routledge

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European Agricultureis a comprehensive analysis of the economic, environmental and political implications of present agricultural policy. It presents a provocative commentary on the future of European agriculture and its role in world food production in the next century, attempting to explain the changes that are being forced on agricultural policy in Europe by environmental legislation, biotechnology and political change, including the complexities of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and the General Agreement of Tariffs and Trade (GATT).

Table of Contents

European Agriculture: development under the 'common agricultural policy'
Why support farmers?
Why agriculture is still the most protected industry
Development of the CAP. Farmers and European politics
How the EU supports agriculture
Market manipulation and the world market
The cost to consumers
The price of supporting farmers - producer gains and consumer losses
The agricultural revolution. Peasants into tycoons in one generation
Going to the trade wars
Overproduction, surpluses and international politics
The Great Reform. Fitting European agriculture into the world system
Impact of CAP reform and GATT Uruguay Round agreement on agricultural trade
European farming and the environment
A sustainable agriculture?
Reconciling food production and environmental acceptability
The 'Biotech revolution'
Producing more from less
European Agriculture in the twenty first century?
EU enlargement and the modification of the CAP
The European industry's place in world food supply, new uses for old crops.
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