This study "Mapping and analysis of the implementation of the CAP" has three main objectives: (1) to map the implementation of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) by the 28 Member States, focusing on their implementation choices, the motivation for these choices and the importance attached to...

The United States has perhaps the richest history of any jurisdiction in regards to agricultural policy, having started with various legislation in the late 1800s that created land grant colleges, agricultural experiment stations and county-level extension agencies - the functions of teaching,...

The main objective of the case study is to analyse the transition from single-peril insurance to multi-peril crop insurance (MPCI), being either pure private-based or public-private under Article 37 (Regulation (EU) No. 1305/2013). Policy makers in Germany and the Netherlands have the ambition...

Three Member States, Hungary, Italy, and Spain (the Castilla y Leon region) planned expenditures in their Rural Development programmes for creating an Income Stabilisation Tool (IST) under Article 39 for the period 2014-2020. At the beginning of 2017, none of these Member States had implemented...

The 'Study on risk management in EU agriculture' provides an analysis of current agricultural risks and risk management instruments. It provides a mapping of relevant risks in EU agriculture. Information on availability and use of risk management instruments was collected in all Member States...

The case study analyses the development of Mutual Funds (MFs) designed under Article 38 of Regulation (EU) No. 1305/2013. Three Member States planned expenditures in their Rural & Development programmes 2014-2020 on such MFs for compensating production losses due to climatic, sanitary and...

In the past, Canada had a plethora of agricultural programs that ranged from transportation subsidies to state trading and various regular and ad hoc income support programs. Transportation programs benefitted crop and livestock producers, but distorted the location of livestock raising. Various...

Price risk management is a crucial issue for farmers and for the supply chain operating under competitive market conditions. The lack of visibility on the future of markets induces short-term production decisions and sub-optimal long-term investment behaviour, with adverse consequences on...