EU agricultural policy still not green

Introduction: Greening the countryside? Changing frameworks of EU agricultural policy.

In response to wide-ranging criticism of agricultural policy, especially within Western industrialized countries, new frameworks of justification are emerging and new hybrid policy fields have been established to tackle some of the ‘externalities’ of agricultural support. However, institutional frameworks are proving slower to change, partly because this would require coordinated action across ...

A Conflict of Institutions: The WTO and EU Agricultural Policy

Europe has long defied GATT/WTO rules on agricultural trade during adjudication of trade disputes, but agreed to major reforms of its agricultural policies in the Uruguay Round. Such variation in liberalization outcomes raises questions about when nations will delegate to international institutions and how EU institutions influence its trade policy. This paper focuses on the policy process to e...

Policy Reforms Affecting Agricultural Incentives: Much Achieved, Much Still Needed

For decades, earnings from farming in many developing countries have been depressed by a pro-urban bias in own-country policies, as well as by governments of richer countries favoring their farmers with import barriers and subsidies. Both sets of policies reduce national and global economic welfare and inhibit agricultural trade and economic growth. They almost certainly add to inequality and p...

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...

EU Enlargement: The New Member States and Agricultural Trade Potentials