Common Agricultural Policy - FoEE

1. Common Agricultural Policy - FoEE FoEE meeting Monor May 2009 • Europe is a big player • CAP is at the heart of EU food system • What is FoEE going to do???

2. Common Agricultural Policy - FoEE • To begin with get a draft position • What’s wrong with the EU food system? • What’s CAP got to do with it? • What do we do with the CAP? • What else do we need? • Easy!

3. EU – What’s wrong? Environmental : • Land use • Resource use • Climate change • Biodiversity loss • Pollution • GMOs

4. EU – What’s wrong? Social: • Starvation Vs Obesity • Loss of small farmers • Loss of rural communities • Inequality • Corporate control

5. Common Agricultural Policy - FoEE • Impact of CAP: • • Supporting too much of the wrong kind of production and serving agribusiness • • Inadequate protection of farmers in Europe and globally • • Inadequate environmental and social safeguards • •Endangering public support for farming

6. Common Agricultural Policy - FoEE A new era of food production in the EU

7. EU Foodjectives • Produce its main needs sustainably, safely and humanely – for food, feeds, fuel from diverse food production in every region of Europe • Optimize resource use (energy, land, soil, water, etc) and minimise chemical inputs • To reduce reliance on fossil fuels

8. EU Foodjectives • Farmers’ livelihoods is from selling products • Vibrant rural communities and economies - safeguards small scale family farming • Protect and enhance biological and agricultural diversity, landscapes • Climate friendly production and consumption

9. EU Foodjectives • Animal health and welfare • Sustainable forestry, and not contributing to global deforestation • GM-free future for Europe • Equitable distribution of global food supplies and consumption of natural resources

10. Objectives for CAP • Public benefits from farming (public money for public goods) • Sustainable consumer demand matches sustainable production – awareness and reduce influence of agribusiness • Increase protein sufficiency – reduce global land use

11. Objectives for CAP • Optimise use of public funds - Equitable and justifiable and no pressure to reduce budget • Enhance global development – global food security and no dumping • Europe must allow countries to protect their own agriculture development

12. Tools for the Beast • Targeted support (money and other measures) • Keeping small farmers • Maximum limit for payments • No export subsidies • New global trade measures • For people and planet NOT corporations

13. Tools for the Beast • Market regulation (supply and demand management) • Maintain buffer stocks • Import control • Set fair prices • Awareness raising • Product pricing

14. ???????????????????? • Who do we target support for and how? • How to change power structures – Break up market share? Marketing boards? • What kind of trade – open EU market for dev countries? Allow all countries to protect agriculture? • How do we regulate agriculture – Tariffs? Quotas? Polluter pays?

15. Food Sovereignty in Europe