Rethinking the CAP

Alan Matthews reports: 'My article "Reimagining the Common Agricultural Policy: Competing Rationales for the CAP after 2027" has now been published in Studies in Agricultural Economics and is available open access here https://lnkd.in/gmft2tVs. I identify four different rationales for CAP spending and argue that the Commission's Vision for Agriculture and Food and its proposals for the CAP post-2027 represent an attempt to construct a new political settlement aiming to reconcile economic competitiveness, environmental sustainability, food security and territorial cohesion. But with a more limited budget, it is more important than ever to ask what we want from EU agricultural policy. Policies should focus on areas that generate European value added and I discuss what this might mean for spending priorities. The whole issue is well worth reading.'