Impact of Common Agricultural Policy on Czech agriculture

The Common Agricultural Policy in a Czech Context

The largest share of policy and money within the European Union goes to agriculture. The Union’s Common Agricultural Policy has undergone several transformations in the last five decades, with the main change taking place in the 1990s. This change influenced agriculture in the Czech Republic, inasmuch as the fledgling republic was preparing to join the European Union and adopt its policies. In ...

Policy Instruments in the Common Agricultural Policy

Policy changes in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) can be explained in terms of the exhaustion and long-term contradictions of policy instruments. Changes in policy instruments have reoriented the policy without any change in formal Treaty goals. The social and economic efficacy of instruments in terms of evidence-based policy analysis was a key factor in whether they were delegitimized. Th...

Examining Agriculture from a Regional Perspective: Implications for the Common Agricultural Policy

Regional convergence is one of the major goals of the European Union. In this paper, the intention is to augment the existing literature on regional convergence across the NUTS-2 regions of EU-27 in terms of agricultural labour productivity during the period 1995-2004. A low annual rate of absolute convergence is estimated for the NUTS-2 regions over the period 1995-2004. The rate of regional c...

Impact of EU Common Agricultural Policy reform on Uganda - - Research reports and studies

Acknowledgements We would like to thank Sheila Page and Dirk Willem te Velde for very helpful comments on earlier drafts of this paper. Alan Matthews would also like to acknowledge the German Marshall Fund for supporting research into the impact of the Common Agricultural Policy on developing countries on which this paper has drawn. The views expressed and any errors or omissions are the respon...

The common agricultural policy after 2013