Common Agricultural Policy

In a thorough and authoritative analysis, Alan Matthews examines the repurposing of the English agricultural budget since Brexit, noting tha...

My article with Alan Greer on the impact of Brexit on agricultural policy in the four nations of the UK is available to view free online:  h...

Some thoughts here:  https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2023/05/24/how-has-uk-agricultural-policy-changed-since-brexit/

My article with Alan Greer on 'Divergence and Continuity after Brexit in agriculture' in the Journal of European Public Policy is no...

This article appeared in the latest issue of South-East Farmer: Many farmers breathed a sigh of relief when a last minute trade deal was agr...

Caroline Saunders, the president of the Agricultural Economics Society writes in its latest newsletter: 'Climate change is impacting on ...

My presentation to the Geo-Agriculture conference in Beverley this week discussed the political landscape as it related to agriculture. I g...

Concern has been expressed about the way in which EU pesticide rules are being translated into UK law by the University of Sussex Trade Poli...

Farmers are divided about how or whether they want Britain to leave the EU according to the Knight Frank 2019 rural sentiment survey. It sh...

The National Audit Office has issued a report on the government's new farming policy. Gareth Davies, the head of the NAO comments, ...

The AHDB has modelled two Brexit scenarios, UK-EU free trade area and WTO UK tariffs: Assessment report Farm business income drops under b...

The United States is playing hardball on agricultural trade as part of any future US-UK trade deal after Brexit. Last week the office of th...

A vibrant and innovative food movement is growing in Wales and there could be new opportunities post Brexit. But is England holding Wales b...

Recent events may give the impression that a no deal Brexit is off the table, but it may merely have been postponed until the end of June. ...

Addressing the NFU conference yesterday, Michael Gove made it clear that a no deal Brexit would be highly damaging for UK agriculture. Tari...

With Brexit uncertainty continuing, this analysis by well-known authors looks at the risks associated with Brexit for farming and the agri-f...

The Government's intention to switch to public goods payments for farmers after Brexit may fall foul of the poor record of implementatio...

The text of Michael Gove's speech to the Oxford Farming Conference: Defra Secretary He comments, 'I cannot, here, entirely pre-emp...

Dieter Helm from Oxford University in a video presentation of policy options for agricultural policy after Brexit: Dieter Helm He argues t...

The Food Research Collaboration has produced a briefing paper on pesticides policy after Brexit: Pesticides at a crossroads It is noted, ...