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24. #CAP: A greener and fairer CAP

2022-12-09
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The new Common Agricultural Policy, the CAP, comes into force from January the 1st next year. It’s one of the biggest, most important, longest-lasting – and often the most incendiary – of EU programmes. Co-financing and complementary national financing will bring the total public budget dedicated to farmers and rural communities to €307 billion for the 2023-2027 period. Of that, the lion’s share will go to direct income support for Europe’s farmers. CAP 23 to 27 comes at a time when food security and food affordability in Europe face huge challenges. From the fallout of the war in Ukraine, from this summer’s drought and from climate change. How to balance, in budget and policy terms, the competing interests posed by each of these? Particularly, the kind of investment that greener, more sustainable farming demands? What sort of new green policies are actually at play here? And in a sector with vanishingly small numbers of young people in it, what’s their take on the new CAP? We’ll be finding out in our next edition of Food for Europe, with interviews with two Danish livestock farmers, with the President of the European Council of Young Farmers, herself a wine producer in Italy, and with the Director General of DG Agri, Wolfgang Burtscher. Tune in to Food for Europe via the DG Agri website and all leading podcast platforms.

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