Routledge The Common Agricultural Policy after the Fischler Reform: National Implementations, Impact Assessment and the Agenda for Future Reforms

Providing an updated state of the art report on the effects of the 2003 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform, this volume has a particular emphasis on the governance of institutional changes and national/regional implementation. Written from an agricultural economist's point of view and enriched by the contribution of political scientists and policy makers, this book offers: - an updated report of the European debate on agricultural and rural policies; -an in-depth analysis of the decoupling process of the agricultural financial support in Europe; - an analysis of the CAP implementation in the old and new Europe Member States ; - a discussion on the future scenarios for the European Agricultural Policies Based on a selection of papers from the 109th Seminar of the European Association of the Agricultural Economists (EAAE), this book, with a foreword by Franz Fischler, also includes four commissioned contributions from leaders in the field including Sofia Davidova, Roberto Esposti, Tassos Haniotis and Johan Swinnen. About the Author Alessandro Sorrentino is a Professor of European Economic Policies at the Università della Tuscia, Viterbo (Italy). He has been working in the field of agricultural economics since the beginning of the 1980s. He is the author of several scientific papers and books concerning the Economics and Political Economy of the Common Agricultural Policy. Roberto Henke is a senior Researcher at the Italian National Institute of Agricultural Economics (INEA). He works in the field of agricultural and rural policy analysis and has produced several scientific papers and reviews in this field. His main areas of interest are the Common Agricultural Policy and income diversification in Agriculture. Simone Severini is a Professor of Agricultural Policy at the Università della Tuscia, Viterbo (Italy). He has been working in the field of agricultural economics and policy since the end of the 1980s. He has published several scientific papers in the field of the evaluation of the Common Agricultural Policy and of water policies in the EU.