After the common agricultural policy : towards an EU policy for sustainable food and rural environment : discussion paper

The Centre for Agriculture and Environment, Paul Terwan Consultancy and Alterra are running a short project on the longer term future of food production, landscape and biodiversity and the implications for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). This project included the following activities: an analysis of international developments relevant to the CAP; an inventory of opinions on the future CAP, from literature and by (telephone) interviews with European stakeholders and a round table discussion with Dutch experts. This position paper summarises the results of these activities. It consists of three parts: A. The State of the Art, B. Elements for future policies, C. A concluding summary