Reshoring EU agriculture risks undermining SDGs

Risks Management in African Agriculture

Urban Agriculture: Definition, Presence, Potentials and Risks

Ever since the first French geographical accounts of (intraand peri-) urban agriculture (UA) were published on Central Africa in the 1960s, scattered and isolated UA surveys by individual social scientists (e.g. Egziabher et al. 1994) have gradually been giving way to institutional projects led by multidisciplinary teams. As a result, more and better information is now available on a larger num...

Climate change risks for African agriculture.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment of major risks for African agriculture and food security caused by climate change during coming decades is confirmed by a review of more recent climate change impact assessments (14 quantitative, six qualitative). Projected impacts relative to current production levels range from -100% to +168% in econometric, from -84% to +62% in ...

Undermining European Environmental Policy Goals? The EU Water Framework Directive and the Politics of Exemptions

The Water Framework Directive (WFD) is the core legislative instrument in the European Union for the protection of water resources. Adopted in 2000, its objectives were to achieve “good status” for water bodies by 2015 and prevent any further deterioration. However, the European Commission and some stakeholders are rather dissatisfied with the implementation of the Directive so far, in particul...

The Agricultural Policy of the Eu and Hungarian Agriculture in Preparation for Eu Accession

Theoretical considerations in connection with state intervention first appeared in American economics literature. These diffused to Europe, where they became the basis for the practice of the protectionist agricultural policy of the EEC after World War II. It is a wellknown fact that this agricultural policy was successful in practice for two decades, but with time it created more and more prob...