A bond scheme for common agricultural policy reform /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2004.
• Subjects: Government securities > European Union countries.; Agriculture and state > European Union countries.; Agricultural Economics.; Policy and Planning.; Investment, Finance and Credit.; Agricultural financial policy.; Agricultural policy.; CAP.; Securities.; Subsidies.; Support measures.; Electronic books.
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This book discusses a proposed bond scheme as part of the Common Agricultural Policy reform in the EU. It presents a major survey of farmers conducted in Germany, Portugal and the UK to determine their likely reactions to the introduction of a bond scheme or similar partially decoupled payments such...

Table of Contents:

• Decoupled payments and a triad of policy objectives : compensation, farm income support and multifunctionality / Alan Swinbank
• Direct payments in the EU and their treatment in the WTO / Alan Swinbank
• Compensation proposals for EU farm policy reform / Jonathan Little, Thomas Knapp, Miguel Sottomayor and Alan Swinbank
• A bond scheme to facilitate CAP reform / Alan Swinbank and Stefan Tangermann
• From CAP to CARPE : embedding the bond scheme proposal in a comprehensive reform / Leonardo Costa, Arlindo Cunha, Américo Mendes, and Miguel Sottomayor
• Why a bond scheme was not adopted in 1992 / Carsten Daugbjerg
• Implementing a bond scheme / Alan Swinbank, Jonathan Little, Thomas Knapp, and Miguel Sottomayor
• Asking farmers about their response to the proposed bond scheme / Richard Tranter, Leonardo Costa, Thomas Knapp, Jonathan Little, and Miguel Sottomayor
• A role for direct payments? the Doha Round, EU enlargement and prospects for CAP reform / Arlindo Cunha.