After an extended process of reform the European Union has introduced direct payments tofarmers which are decoupled from production decisions as a central element of its CommonAgricultural Policy. They are also referred to as Single Farm Payments. In this paper weanalyze the production and trade...

This paper has benefited greatly from a discussion of an earlier version with the participantsof the first Humboldt Forum for Food and Agriculture in Davos, Switzerland in March 2009.Research has been made possible in part by a research grant from BASF SE – The ChemicalCompany. The first two...

The main objectives of the study are to illuminate the development of the Common AgriculturalPolicy (CAP) up to the Agenda 2000 reforms, to evaluate the reform decision of June2003, and to show and discuss options for the future development of the CAP.In chapter 2 the objectives of the CAP are...

At the EU Council in December 2004, European heads of governments will decide on apotential date for the start of EU accession negotiations with Turkey. Various recent analysesassess the cost of applying the Common Agricultural Policy of the EU (CAP) to Turkeywithout taking into account the...

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union has been in a process of reform since the early 1990s. As a result of reforms, agricultural market regulations have become more liberal and direct payments have been introduced which are to a large extent decoupled from production. In...

Die politische Wende in der ehemaligen DDR im Jahr 1989 und die schon ein Jahr später erfolgte Vereinigung Deutschlands haben eine grundlegende Umgestaltung der ost-deutschen Landwirtschaft ausgelöst. Seitdem hat sich auf der Basis der allgemein gültigen und speziell für die Umgestaltung der...

Politicians and farm lobbyists frequently use the argument that agricultural policy is necessaryto safeguard jobs in agriculture. We explore whether this is true by conducting an econometricex-post evaluation of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in the threeEast German...

Policies for rural areas have become an important but complex policy field in the EuropeanUnion`s Common Agricultural Policy. The purpose of this paper is to report on amethodological approach pursued to model the allocation of EAFRD (European AgriculturalFund for Rural Development) funds in...

Bei der Gestaltung von Agrarumweltprogrammen (AUP) spielen sowohl landwirtschaftlicheals auch umweltrelevante Ziele eine Rolle. Es ist also nahe liegend, in die Gestaltung vonPolitikmaßnahmen im Agrarumweltbereich auch die davon betroffenen Gruppen einzubeziehen.Allerdings haben Umwelt- und...

In the last decades migration has become an increasingly regarded topic in economic researchin line with the growth of the world’s migrant population which more than doubled in the1960s and 1990s (ILO 2002). Particularly now - in the light of the forthcoming EU Easternenlargement with 10...