AG 003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Price Support

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Agriculture (AG)
• Course: AG 003
• Professor: Hinojosa

Document Summary

The cap after 2013: mainstreaming the green agenda. 2013 reform commissions agenda mainstream greening and make the cap simpler and fairer. New green payment embedded in pillar 1 (30% of direct payment expenditure) Fully eu financed: shifting to pillar 1 payments allowed green fund to reach a larger pool of beneficiaries. Involved the risk that mainstream green payments may not deliver effective greening. Eliminating the existence of statutory obligation to spend a minimum level of pillar 2 rural-development money on green measures, thus directly undermining the green identity of rural-development measures. Allowed green farming on a much larger scale. Rural-development expenditure remained modest as a result of a lack of political will to use it. Pillar 2 agri-environmental measures popular with environmentalist because it"s more difficult to green farming by using conditionality than by using well-defined and targeted measures. Farmers may be payed twice by providing the same service. National flexibility and the challenges of a cap a la carte.