GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES

Sowing the Seeds of the Post-2020 CAP

Aug 2, 2017 | 09:00 GMT

Some of the Common Agricultural Policy's advocates have been complaining that it may be too cumbersome to administer.

European farmers have complained that the Common Agricultural Policy needs to be simplified and to find ways to produce more with less.

(SEBASTIEN BOZON/AFP/Getty Images)

In June 2013, European politicians approved the first major reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in a decade, following months of haggling over quotas, subsidies and measures to improve environmental accountability. But when the new rules took full effect in 2015, a year behind schedule, some of the same leaders called for changes to policies they said were too cumbersome to administer....

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