Slicing the "C", regressing the "A", diluting the "P": the CAP deserved better

When it comes to the impact of the Commission’s Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) proposal on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the devil is out there in the open for all to see – in the lip-service paid in addressing the most serious dual challenges of food security and climate change that global agriculture faces, in the abandonment of the market orientation that characterised the CAP for more than two decades, in the treatment of the CAP as a social policy for the “most-in-need”, in the absence of any analysis accompanying the proposal; the list could go on…

By: Tassos HANIOTIS, Senior Guest Research Scholar, IIASA; Special Advisor for Sustainable Productivity, ForumForAg