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Managing food supply: strategies to control the level and nature of production Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Starter: Re-CAP!. The CAP in a nutshell… discuss with your partner: Why, when and who by was the CAP established What its aims were What strategies were in place to achieve them.
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Managing food supply: strategies to control the level and nature of production Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
Starter: Re-CAP! • The CAP in a nutshell… discuss with your partner: • Why, when and who by was the CAP established • What its aims were • What strategies were in place to achieve them
Learning objectives • To know the effects of the CAP, and recognise the advantages and disadvantages it created. • To describe how and why the CAP was reformed.
The effects of the CAP • The CAP’s policies increased European food supply. • European farmers were happy to overproduce! Study the information boxes on your sheet. Create a colour-key and code the boxes according to whether they were an advantageor disadvantage of the CAP.
CAP reforms • By the 1990s there was increasing concern over both the running and the effects of the CAP. • In 1992 radical reforms were introduced to the system. • Aimed to encourage the de-intensification of farming and the protection of the environment.
CAP reforms • Subsidies to dairy and livestock farmers were reduced - farmers were no longer encouraged to produce as many animals. • Growers of low quality produce, such as wine and olive oil, were paid to reduce the areas under crop and to increase the quality of their produce from remaining areas. • The guaranteed prices the EU would pay for cereals, beef and milk were reduced and became much closer to real world market prices.
CAP reforms • Arable farmers were paid to set-aside up to 10% of their land and not grow crops on it. • Domestic quotas were introduced, particularly in diary farming.
Prep Study pages 224-5 in your text book. Create a timeline to summarise the CAP reforms from 1992