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The Common Agricultural

Policy and the Common
Fisheries Policy

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CAP/CFP

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Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)

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Aims:

• Secure food supplies

• Expand output
• Increase productivity
• Stabilise prices
• Secure farm incomes

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Problems:

• Inefficiency in some markets

• Over production
• Cost
• Friction with other trading nations

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Reforms:

• Reduce subsidies
• Cut output: set aside/reduce quotas
• Encourage diversification
• Payments for environmentally efficient
methods of farming

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Common Fisheries Policy (CFP)

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Aims

• Maintain marine ecosystems

• Generate sustainable industry
• Protect stakeholders in fishing industry
• Protect fish stocks

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Problems

• Over-fishing
• Lack of property rights
• Dwindling fish stocks
• Damage to communities
• Clarification of numbers
• What size quotas?

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Reforms

• Quotas
• Payments to leave the industry
• Ban on fishing for some species
• Focus on long term sustainability
• Reduce waste
• Encourage bio-diversity

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