1. The current Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union is expensive, untargeted, and unequal. It costs over €55 billion per year and the top 18% of recipients receive 85% of the money.
2. Direct payments to farmers vary greatly between countries from €247 per hectare to over €1,000 per hectare. Payments also vary significantly per farm worker between countries.
3. While reform is discussed, redistributing funds is politically difficult. Modest reforms are expected like phasing out historic entitlements and increasing conditionality on area payments.
This document discusses the future of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union. It presents an independent view on the CAP and how the EU spends €55 billion per year on farm subsidies. It argues that if citizens knew how much was spent on subsidies, they may not approve. It advocates using freedom of information requests and investigative reporting to have better public debate and lead to improved policy. The document also includes charts showing the costs to taxpayers to destabilize dairy markets, listing the top dairy companies in the UK that received export subsidies and the countries they exported to between 2004-2005.
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Jack Thurston talk at EU budget and CAP conference: Prague, 11 December 2008jackthur
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- Between 2006-2008, the total value of EU farm subsidy payments increased from €33 billion to €55 billion to €66 billion. The number of payments and recipients also increased over this period.
- In the Czech Republic in 2007, the biggest 10% of farms received 76% of the subsidy money, showing a concentrated distribution.
- The top 10 recipients of subsidies in the Czech Republic in 2007 are listed, with amounts ranging from €1.1 million to €3.1 million.
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This document discusses the future of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union. It presents an independent view on the CAP and how the EU spends €55 billion per year on farm subsidies. It argues that if citizens knew how much was spent on subsidies, they may not approve. It advocates using freedom of information requests and investigative reporting to have better public debate and lead to improved policy. The document also includes charts showing the costs to taxpayers to destabilize dairy markets, listing the top dairy companies in the UK that received export subsidies and the countries they exported to between 2004-2005.
This document discusses EU farm subsidies and budget transparency. It notes that the EU spends €55 billion per year on farm subsidies. However, there is little transparency around how this money is spent. The document advocates for greater use of freedom of information requests and investigative reporting to shed light on spending and promote more informed public debate and policymaking. It provides an example of one organization's efforts to obtain and publish subsidy data from 27 different EU websites to increase transparency.
The document discusses EU farm subsidies and who benefits from the €55 billion spent annually. It notes that British dairy exporters have claimed £126 million over two years to export surplus butter and milk powder to developing countries. This undercuts local farmers abroad. While the EU argues it helps farmers, critics say it actually drives others out of business and benefits large exporters. The document calls for more transparency around farm subsidy data and how the money is actually spent.
This document summarizes data on farm subsidy payments from the European Union. It shows that over the past decade, the total value and number of subsidy payments has increased significantly, reaching €66 billion and 12.1 million payments by 2008. It also provides details on subsidy payments distributed in Poland in 2007, including a list of the top 10 recipients. The document argues that adopting a flat subsidy rate per hectare across EU countries could benefit newer member states that currently receive lower direct payment rates compared to older member states. This presents political challenges but could increase fairness in how the Common Agricultural Policy funds are distributed.
Jack Thurston talk at EU budget and CAP conference: Prague, 11 December 2008jackthur
This document discusses EU farm subsidies and their distribution. Some key points:
- The EU spends €55 billion per year on farm subsidies.
- Between 2006-2008, the total value of EU farm subsidy payments increased from €33 billion to €55 billion to €66 billion. The number of payments and recipients also increased over this period.
- In the Czech Republic in 2007, the biggest 10% of farms received 76% of the subsidy money, showing a concentrated distribution.
- The top 10 recipients of subsidies in the Czech Republic in 2007 are listed, with amounts ranging from €1.1 million to €3.1 million.
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Jack Thurston (farmsubsidy.org): Westminster Forum on Food and Nutrition: CAP
1. Fairness, transparency
and support
Westminster Food & Nutrition Forum
13 October 2010
Jack Thurston
Co-founder, farmsubsidy.org
2.
3. If citizens knew how the
EU spends €55 billion a
year on farm subsidies...
Would they approve?
4. Our method
Freedom of
information Good stories
+ +
Beer
Investigative Public debate policy
reporting
5.
6.
7.
8. 6 | | BUSINESS Business & Media |
21.05.06
CASH COWS
WHAT IT COSTS THE TAXPAYER TO DESTABILISE DAIRY MARKETS
British export subsidies, by Export subsidy granted, by company, 2004 and 2005
destination country, 2004 and 2005
Fayrefield
Foods* £22,149,818
Philpot Dairy
Products £21,957,002
SAUDI Dale
ARABIA Farm* £19,391,504
£2,147,003
INDIA
£1,244,914 Nestle
UK £7,442,672
JA N
APAN
UAE BANGLADESH £1,24 273
£ 44,2
ALGERIA £6,016,605 £3,479,499
£9,413,948
TMC Dairies
EGYP
YPT (NI) £6,421,069
MEXICO £3,03 340
,031,340
£7,714,200
PH IPPINE
PHILIP NES
JAMAICA
JA AICA £1,7 ,901
,708,9
£2,296,9 7
£2 296,987 OMA
OMAN Hoogwegt
£4,660,97
,660,973 International £6,016,872
SUDAN THAILA D
HAILAND
IVORY COAST
IVO £3,906,970 £6 06,805
£6,706,80
VENEZUELA £5,722,515
722,515 Lakeland Dairies
£2,274,752 (NI) £4,863,754
NIGERIA
£11,782,308 IND
INDONESIA
ESIA
£2,94 8
£2,947,118
Eilers & Wheeler
Sales £4,009,257
Meadow
Foods £3,335,750
KEY F Uhrenholt
Dairy £3,084,188
*includes subsidiaries
£1 to £4m £4 to £7m £7m+
£0m 5 10 15 20
GRAPHIC: CATH LEVETT PHOTOGRAPH: ALAMY SOURCE: FARMSUBSIDY.COM
Who’s creaming off EU subsidies?
Exports of cheap European dairy products are crushing the livelihoods of developing world farmers, writes Heather Stewart
ritish-based exporters, including known as the EU ‘butter mountain’ cow is one of the most reliable ways of on behalf of the EU, said Britain would
Nestle and Dairy Crest, have (‘wine lakes’ were another manifestation Peter Mandelson lifting yourself out of poverty,’ says like to see them abolished.
claimed £126m of taxpayers’ of the same problem). But after a barrage agreed to Europe Thurston, who is trying to compile a ‘We would prefer that export refunds
9.
10. Three BIG problems with the CAP:
1. It’s Expensive
2. It’s Untargeted
3. It’s Unequal
11. Three BIG problems with the CAP:
1. It’s Expensive
2. It’s Untargeted
3. It’s Unequal
12. Growth of the CAP budget
€ billions EU-10 EU-12 EU-15 EU-25 EU-27
➔ ➔ ➔ ➔ ➔
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
1980
1981
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1983
1984
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1986
1987
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1994
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1996
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Export subsidies Market support
Direct aids Rural development
21. “...the current system fails
to deliver value for
taxpayers’ money...
...underlying lack of logic... Through
the green
...no link between subsidies smokescreen
received and public goods
delivered.”
How is CAP cross compliance
delivering for biodiversity?
BirdLife International,
November 2009
22. Cross Compliance
aka
“Being Paid For Not Breaking The Law”
“Many, if not all, standards are likely
to have been legal requirements for
some years before cross compliance
was introduced in 2005...
Institute for European Environment Policy, 2007
23.
24. Hope Farm
181 ha arable farm, Cambridgeshire
Annual Costs of Implementing €75
Cross Compliance
Annual Single Farm Payment €27,000
25. Three BIG problems with the CAP:
1. It’s Expensive
2. It’s Untargeted
3. It’s Unequal
31. “The payment rates defined in
entitlements vary greatly depending
upon: the historic claims record of the
applicant in the period 2000-02, any
National Reserve award, the volume
of Milk Quota held, and the Tonneage
of Sugar Beet Contract held.”
32. Direct aid, € per hectare, 2013
600
500
400
300
€247
200
100
0
BE BG CZ DK DE EE IE EL ES FR IT CY LV LT LU HU MT NL AT PL PT RO SI SK FI SE UK
33. Direct aid, € per farm worker, 2013
14,000
12,000
€10,409
10,000
8,000
6,000
4,000
2,000
0
BE BG CZ DK DE EE IE EL ES FR IT CY LV LT LU HU MT NL AT PL PT RO SI SK FI SE UK
34. Rural development spend, € per hectare, 2013
250 1,032
200
150
100
50
€17
0
BE BG CZ DK DE EE IE EL ES FR IT CY LV LT LU HU MT NL AT PL PT RO SI SK FI SE UK
35. How to spend it
- Ecological farming:
uplands, organic farms,
marginal land...
- Invest in knowledge and
skills: resource use,
marketing, diversification
- Measures to address price &
income volatility
- End blanket entitlements
36. Reform is long overdue
but... redistribution is
politically toxic
So where are we heading?
37.
38. - Phase out historic entitlements, but no flat
rate
- More conditionality on area payments
- ‘Public money for public goods’ rhetoric
- Optional price/income volatility measures
- Budget cut up to 30% by 2020
- Co-financing - compulsory, rates vary by
measure and by country
39. Thanks for listening!
Jack Thurston
Co-founder, farmsubsidy.org
jack@farmsubsidy.org