Common Agricultural Policy - FoEE

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Common Agricultural Policy - FoEE

• Europe is a big player
• CAP is at the heart of EU food system
• What is FoEE going to do???

• FoEE meeting Monor May 2009

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Common Agricultural Policy - FoEE

• To begin with get a draft position
• Whats wrong with the EU food system?
• Whats CAP got to do with it?
• What do we do with the CAP?
• What else do we need?
• Easy!

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EU Whats wrong?

• Environmental
• Land use
• Resource use
• Climate change
• Biodiversity loss
• Pollution
• GMOs

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EU Whats wrong?

• Social
• Starvation Vs Obesity
• Loss of small farmers
• Loss of rural communities
• Inequality
• Corporate control

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Common Agricultural Policy - FoEE

• Impact of CAP
• Supporting too much of the wrong kind of
  production and serving agribusiness
• Inadequate protection of farmers in Europe and
  globally
• Inadequate environmental and social safeguards
• Endangering public support for farming

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Common Agricultural Policy - FoEE
A new era of food production in the EU
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EU Foodjectives

• Produce its main needs sustainably, safely and
  humanely for food, feeds, fuel from diverse
  food production in every region of Europe
• Optimize resource use (energy, land, soil, water,
  etc) and minimise chemical inputs
• To reduce reliance on fossil fuels

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EU Foodjectives

• Farmers livelihoods is from selling products
• Vibrant rural communities and economies -
  safeguards small scale family farming
• Protect and enhance biological and agricultural
  diversity, landscapes
• Climate friendly production and consumption

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EU Foodjectives

• Animal health and welfare
• Sustainable forestry, and not contributing to
  global deforestation
• GM-free future for Europe
• Equitable distribution of global food supplies
  and consumption of natural resources

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Objectives for CAP

• Public benefits from farming (public money for
  public goods)
• Sustainable consumer demand matches sustainable
  production awareness and reduce influence of
  agribusiness
• Increase protein sufficiency reduce global land
  use

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Objectives for CAP

• Optimise use of public funds - Equitable and
  justifiable and no pressure to reduce budget
• Enhance global development global food security
  and no dumping
• Europe must allow countries to protect their own
  agriculture development

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Tools for the Beast

• Targeted support (money and other measures)
• Keeping small farmers
• Maximum limit for payments
• No export subsidies
• New global trade measures
• For people and planet NOT corporations

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Tools for the Beast

• Market regulation (supply and demand management)
• Maintain buffer stocks
• Import control
• Set fair prices
• Awareness raising
• Product pricing

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• Who do we target support for and how?
• How to change power structures Break up market
  share? Marketing boards?
• What kind of trade open EU market for dev
  countries? Allow all countries to protect
  agriculture?
• How do we regulate agriculture Tariffs? Quotas?
  Polluter pays?

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Food Sovereignty in Europe