Governing Global Food Security. IES Policy Brief Issue 2014/07/September 2014

Summary. Food security remains a critical issue for the international community. Although significant and positive steps have been taken towards worldwide food governance in recent years, this Policy Brief argues that more can and should be done in the coming years. Additional actions that policy-makers could consider range from enhancing understanding between different actors and improving the engagement of civil society to the extension of capacity-building efforts, regulatory stability and sufficient access to credit. When taken together in a search for strategic policy coordination, these actions offer the possibility to dramatically improve global food security

De l’audace, encore de l’audace, toujours de l’audace

Il faut replacer la PAC dans son contexte mondial. Les économistes devront engranger de nouveaux chantiers afin que l’Union Européenne puisse faire ses choix et mettre en cohérence les instruments politiques nécessaires aux ambitions européennes et dans l’intérêt de ses agriculteurs, de ses producteurs et de ses territoires. C’est ce que fait Tomas Garcia Azcarate en nous livrant ses réflexions autant personnelles que stratégiques.To ask questions about the new prospects offered by the future CAP requires putting Europe back into a global context. Economists must develop new ways of thinking that will enable the EU to make choices and put instruments in place that serve Europe’s ambitions, in the interests of its farmers, producers and its territory. This is what Tomas Garcia Azcarate sets out to do in offering his personal, strategic, vision as a contribution to the debate

Le bilan de santé de la Politique Agricole Commune

On May 21 next the Commission should approve the settlement proposals in line with the « assessment of the state of the CAP ». This article scans the various CAP reforms since 1992, to put the legislative project into its context. It explains why it should not be another reform but a continuation of the work accomplished, particularly since 2003. Past experience now allows to set aside a certain conservativeness that was applied (partial uncoupling), which, combined with market trends, will help the gradual removal of milk quotas. In addition, the emergence of new challenges, such as the consequences of climate changes, and the increase in biofuels, should also be taken into account. The purpose is also to initiate a debate on the post-2013 Common Agricultural Policy. Special attention is given to risk prevention and agricultural crisis management, a subject central to the next agricultural policy talks, where the limitations of public, especially community, intervention, need to be emphazised.SCOPUS: ar.jinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishe

Personal reflections on a food and European territorial policy

The successive reforms of the Common Agricultural Policy have been building and rebuilding a house which requires today a complete rethought and a reconstitution on new basis. We argue that today agricultural policies must give way to food and land policies. At European level, we proposed three pillars for a new Food and Territorial Common Policy (FOTERCOP). They will not be characterized by their financing as today (100 % Eu or cofinancing) but on their own characteristics: multiannual measures first; annual measures second; last but not least market management and food chain. 50 % of the funds could be invest for financing the necessary ecological transition. This will also require a new political, social and administrative logic and break the straitjacket of the current EU budgetary rule

La politique agricole commune : contribution à un débat

Garcia Azcarate Tomas. La politique agricole commune : contribution à un débat. In: Économie rurale. N°236, 1996. pp. 71-72

La hausse des prix des céréales: Quelle responsiblité pour la pac?

Inflation is back. Admittedly, we are still far from the two digits of the years fallowing the oil crisis in some countries but according to Eurostat we are at 3.5% in the Eurozone as of March 2008, with peaks above 4% in Belgium, Luxembourg, Spain, Slovenia and Cyprus. The finger is being pointed at agricultural products for this change. The new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which has arisen from successive reforms since 1992, is supposed not only to have done nothing to «avoid the crime», but also acted as a jointly responsible accomplice. The time has come, it is said for a return to the founding principles and for restoring effective intervention mechanisms that will protect consumers today, and producers tomorrow, against such sudden price changes. The aim of this article is to give the reader some points of reflection so that he can put things into perspective, as much regarding the responsibility of agricultural products in inflation as of the CAP and its reforms. We conclude that it is necessary to preserve from the new CAP, like the apple of one's eye, the producers taking in hand their fate by themselves.SCOPUS: ar.jinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishe

Le programme communautaire de distribution de fruits et légumes dans les écoles

Last July, the Commission approved a regulation proposal by the Council for establishing a fruit and vigetable promotion and distribution programme in schools, called the School Fruit Scheme (SFS). This proposal should be approved by the end of the year and the first programmes started with the 2009/10 academic year. This article discusses the reasons in which this initiative is rooted of an agricultural, public health and educational nature; the importance of an initiative in schools and of the consideration of social and regional inequalities. In concludes with a general thought, placing this initiative in the general evolution of the Common Agricultural Policy; it is a further step towards an even more consumer and citizen-orientated CAP.SCOPUS: ar.jinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishe